Jennifer Gilmore Quotes

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

Family is so central to Afghan life that all Afghan stories are family stories. Family is something I simply can't resist because all the great themes of human life - duty, grief, sacrifice, love, envy - you find all those things within families.

You know, we have two families: the one we're born into, and the one that we make for ourselves afterwards.

I have a great family myself so I know if you don't have a family you've got nothing. Nothing else can take the place of the family - not girlfriends or a career.

I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.

Families always stay the same, but they always provide more stories.

I have an evolving relationship with my father, and his memory, especially the older I get. I know that some of the things that interested him are things that interest me.

The concept of the strong linkage to the family is breaking down in Western nations.

I write about families. That is who we are.

I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.

The older I get, the more important my view of the family is.

I like stories that affect families.

I never saw my dad cry. My son saw me cry. My dad never told me he loved me, and consequently I told Scott I loved him every other minute. The point is, I'll make less mistakes than my dad, my sons hopefully will make less mistakes than me, and their sons will make less mistakes than their dads.

I'm proud of my family, very proud - I have ten grandchildren, four children, and one wife.

I'm not entirely sure why I write about family, but I do know that it hasn't stopped interesting me. You meet and leave other people at different stages of your evolution, whereas family is made up of people who are constant links in your life, who know you over the course of time and have your complete curriculum vitae in their heads.

The family has a social function and so it should be sustained.

I'm endlessly fascinated with the ways families work and the ways they don't.

I'm attracted to stories that deal with the family and what it's like to be a member of that family, whether it's together or apart, given the pressures that are put on it by the outside world.

I think that being Jewish has generated an extremely strong sense of the importance of family. If I look at my Scandinavian colleagues, they don't have that urgency about family. All my movies are about that.

Cultures need stable families to raise stable children.

If the family is the basis of the society, and the basis of the family is the division of labor between husband and wife, and the upbringing of children is the most important function of the family, then such a society is indeed civilized ...

Since I was a child, I have had this feeling that the most important work I'd do would be with my family.

The traditional family has an intrinsic as well as an instrumental value, and that is the real reason so many conservatives defend it.

Strong families are vital to strong societies.

Family counts for a lot in this world.