I don’t want to leave New York and leave my family. I don’t like the distance. I just did a movie in California and it’s kind of excruciating to be away from them so I think there is that sense. – Sigourney Weaver
We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it’s in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics. – Zach Galifianakis
If anything, ‘Friday Night Dinner’ is quite mean. All these pranks that we play on each other, there’s a lot of hitting and slapping and jumping at each other trying to scare each other. But underneath it all it is a family, so we all love each other. – Simon Bird
For the past few years my fans have made it very clear that they would like to read my novels and revisit my family of characters faster than I can write them. For them, I am willing to make a change to my working methods so the stories in my head can reach the page more frequently. – Wilbur Smith
My whole life revolved around TV as a kid. I would come home and make sure I finished my homework every night by 8 o’clock, generally so that I could sit down and watch TV from 8 to 10. As a kid, it was ‘Family Ties’ and ‘Roseanne’ and ‘Growing Pains’ and ‘Perfect Strangers’ and ‘Golden Girls.’ I mean, I watched everything. – Simon Helberg
My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn’t especially religious. – Tony Blair
I have family obligations and all that stuff. I get my kids six weeks in the summer, which is a real intense period of time. I’m with them every minute of the day. – Tom Berenger
I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life. – Todd Akin
I wouldn’t rule out L.A. life, but I love England. I have a lovely house and nice garden, I walk my kids to school – family is most important to me. – Stephen Graham
I wasn’t going to shy away from getting married when I did and having a baby young and starting a family, even with the job that I chose. – Stephen Curry
‘Modern Family’ has definitely opened up a lot of doors and I will always be grateful. – Sarah Hyland
I love celery and people don’t use it a lot. Celery and flavors in that family – it really brightens and is refreshing. – Todd English
I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it’s like to lose it. – Ted Cruz
Negroes could be sold – actually sold as we sell cattle, with no reference to calves or bulls or recognition of family. It was a nasty business. The white South was properly ashamed of it and continually belittled and almost denied it. But it was a stark and bitter fact. – W. E. B. Du Bois
I didn’t grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago. – Tom Morello
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth. – V. S. Pritchett
Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia. – Victor LaValle
One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today – love, money, family. They haven’t gone out of fashion, so it’s not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style. – Val McDermid
Life hands us a lot of hard choices, and other people can help us more than we might realize. We often think we should make important decisions using just our own internal resources. What are the pros and cons? What does my gut tell me? But often we have friends and family who know us in ways we don’t know ourselves. – Sheena Iyengar
Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive. – Stella Benson
Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I’d zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming. – Scott Baio
A stand-up’s job is to hold the mirror up to society and to look at what we’re afraid of. That’s why we had shows like ‘All in the Family’ and ‘The Jeffersons.’ We made fun of ourselves then. – Tracy Morgan
I think the older you get, the more you realize how important life is, the more you think about your family. – Wes Welker
When I go back to family reunions everybody goes, ‘Hey cousin! Hey Auntie!’ And I’m like, ‘Okay I don’t know you, I have no idea who you are.’ I am auntie and cousin for so many and even the ones in prison call me collect. And I’ll be like, ‘Which of my family members are giving you this phone number?’ – Sherri Shepherd
I come from a family of bankers and lawyers, and they joked that they can’t believe I’m the one that gets to go to the White House. – Thom Browne
I honestly don’t remember when and why I started calling my mom ‘Momsi’. These are family things; it starts for some reason. It’s not that I just call her Momsi; I call her other things as well! – Viswanathan Anand