Holly Marie Combs Quotes

Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.

I don't know how many modern families watch 'Modern Family,' but then one of the points of 'Modern Family' is that it's hard to tell what a modern family is anymore, let alone what it does.

We're a very close family and we're a very real family, and I think every real family has real problems.

Society wants happy families.

It is within the family that children learn the values that will guide them for the rest of their lives. It is within the family that they form their earliest relationships, learn to communicate with others and interact with the world around them. It is within the family that the notion of human rights becomes a reality lived on a daily basis. If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.

I come from a typical family.

I've avoided doing network shows because I don't think they're true to real families.

My opinion is that you cannot really blame cinema for the result of what is somebody's mindset. I think it's just entertainment. For me, I've always believed in doing things that I can sit and watch with my family. So far I think I've stuck to that, and I will also in the future.

We're never going to have democratic countries or peaceful countries until we have democratic or peaceful families.

Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.

There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves.

Past conference topics have included strengthening the role of fathers in children's lives, the impact of the media culture on children, the delicate balance between work and family, and family involvement in education.

I tend to show everything I do to my family, to check they won't be offended.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

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.

Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

I think families find a dynamic that works for them.

The growing diversity of family life comes with new possibilities as well as new challenges.

Everyone has bits of dysfunction in their families, but I actually have a very nice, happy one.

I always found it strange, when I went round to other people's houses for tea and that, how strict their parents were.

We didn't even have a T.V. in my house until I was 13. My dad called it the 'idiot box.'

Women are interested in relationships and how other societies manage those relationships. They may have been constrained in what roles were open to them, but they could question and observe, and they could write it down.

I believe that communication is the key to a happy and successful family in our society.

As a lonely teenager growing up in Virginia, I fed off any pop culture that could show me different ways of being from what I saw on 'The Cosby Show' reruns or read about in an Ann M. Martin book.

My parents aren't really conformists.