Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.Gail Lumet Buckley
I was named after my Jewish grandfather who left Poland early in the 20th century. What I knew from an early age was that he had lived most of his life in England, his Jewish wife had died, and he married a non-Jewish woman who was my grandmother.Morris Gleitzman
You have to put your partner and family at the top of the list and there must be downtime - time for gardening, cooking time, book reading time.Shirley Ballas
Annie Lee Smith was my mother's name. My father's name was George Washington Smith. I have to tell you, I got all of my attributes from them, obviously, the tangibles, the intangibles. Particularly my work ethic, my dedication.Bruce Smith
The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.Nancy Friday
I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.Phyllis Diller
You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it’s all about family.Rod Stewart
In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.Friedrich Nietzsche
When all the dust is settled and all the crowds are gone, the things that matter are faith, family, and friends.Barbara Bush
Being a family means you are a part of something very wonderful. It means you will love and be loved for the rest of your life.Lisa Weed
Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.Tim Allen
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.Pope John Paul II
No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?Lee Iacocca
Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving,and of families united.Norman Vincent Peale
Doing what we can to repair the world was instilled in me from an early age. I will never forget my siblings and me knitting squares for blankets to be sent to the troops during World War II. This was an inspiration from my mother.Charles Bronfman
My brother is gay - he's a couple of years older than me, and I could not be more proud of him. It was right for him. If a player was going through something similar at a younger age, I feel I would be understanding because I was there to watch it with my brother.Craig Bellamy
Donald learned from a very young age that in order to survive in my family, he needed to be what my grandfather referred to as a killer, you know, somebody who had no weaknesses - in other words, kindness, generosity, sensitivity. So I think, over time, those qualities were systematically drilled out of Donald by his dad.Mary L. Trump
I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.Helena Bonham Carter
I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'Cher
Skin care is massively important to me. My mom instilled that into my brain from a pretty young age.Madelyn Cline
My dad was a Seventh-Day Adventist pastor, and from an early age I was put off by being force-fed a belief system.Dave McCary
As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.Frances Conroy
At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.Fidel Castro
The first thing, when I got the money, I knew I would support somebody. And the person I supported was my family. Because we were really in debt with the money. And - so I gave to my father this suitcase full of money. And he couldn't believe it. And that was something very special.Michael Schumacher
It's nice to have money, but the first thing I did with money was buy my father a snow-blower, because my job was to shovel snow, and I wasn't there to do it any more, so I was able to buy him a blower.Richard Gere