It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers and I grew up in a very funny conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.

I have a great family by the way but you need to find people who can pull something out from you that might be otherwise unseen.

I'm not ready to get married but I have a pretty great family and I'd like that too someday.

They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.

I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team too. They'd never seen anything like it.

I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy because my mother kept a great deal to herself.

I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful how nurturing and how wonderful it can be.

My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.

If you have issues with family friends and people at work try and solve these issues head on so you can move on and concentrate on having the life you want. Think about what you can do so that you are happy with yourself - for instance eating right to feel great and energetic.

Being a Barrymore didn't help me other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me.

I'm healthy have a loving and adorable family great hunting dogs a gravity defying musical career and most importantly fuzzy-headed idiots hate me.

I'm surrounded by great friends and family. I don't know what I would do without them.

I am blessed to have so many great things in my life - family friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.

I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here to vote here and to live here.

My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity her compassion her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

The great danger for family life in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure comfort and independence lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent there has to be something inside you that says 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.

A family is a risky venture because the greater the love the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.

Give a little love to a child and you get a great deal back.

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.