Family quotes

“My wife was right. I spent my whole life hiding behind computer screens, and it cost me my daughter. But it's time to let go because... because I met an extraordinary woman and she needs my help. I won't make the same mistake twice.”
Ewan McGregor - Eye

“- McCoy: All that time in space, getting on each other's nerves. And what do we do when shore leave comes along? We spend it together. Other people have families.
- Kirk: Other people, Bones. Not us.”
DeForest Kelley - McCoy
William Shatner - James T. Kirk

“I'm tired of looking at my cousins all day.”
Christopher Guard - Frodo

“They were a people so eager to laugh, so devoted to family, so dedicated to each other. The only word that comes to mind is harmony.”

Kevin Costner - Lieutenant Dunbar

“- Gale: Well, sometimes your career's gotta come before family.
- Evelle: Work's what's kept us happy.”
John Goodman - Gale
William Forsythe - Evelle

“- Rell the Cyclops: I found the seer's body in the quicksand.
- Prince Colwyn: He gave his life for us.
- Titch: He was my only family.
- Prince Colwyn: We're your family now.”
Bernard Bresslaw - Cyclops
Ken Marshall - Colwyn
Graham McGrath - Titch

“- Dick Grayson: Alfred and Bruce are like family.
- Barbara Wilson: Paying someone to do your dishes, cook your meals, you call that family?”
Chris O'Donnell - Dick Grayson
Alicia Silverstone - Barbara Wilson

“You broke into my house, stole my property, murdered my servants, and my pets! And that is what grieves me the most! You killed my snake. Thorgrim is beside himself with grief! He raised that snake from the time it was born.”
James Earl Jones - Thulsa Doom

You're assaulted financially, which is its own special kind of violence because it's directed at your kids. What school can you afford? How will that affect their lives? You're asking yourself, "Will that limit what they may become?". You feel your whole family's future's compromised, held hostage.

Colm Feore - Richard Scruggs

“What’s the matter? Don’t you think I can do it? Tell me. Seriously I’m interested. Don’t you think I can? You heard the Doc. my brother gets out of the army in February. The Doc won’t take him back. It’s all up to me. I don’t know why you don’t understand. I need money, and I’ll do whatever I have to do to get it. So... this time next month,...” (continue)(continue reading)

Audrey Hepburn - Holly Golightly

“I never had my house pushed over before. Never had my family stuck out on the road. Never had to lose everything I had in life.”

Jane Darwell - Ma Joad

“My family is not more important than my friends. My dad won't even come to one launch!”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Homer Hickam

“I would walk through fire before I would break up a family, because I am not a quitter.”
Sandra Bullock - Birdee Pruitt

“I've been a lousy father, blind to what I have. So obsessed with being undervalued that I undervalued all of you.”

Craig T. Nelson - Mr. Incredible

“- Robert Roy MacGregor: Did you boys know there's going to be a new addition to the family?
- Duncan MacGregor: Is it inside you?
- Mary MacGregor: Yes.
- Duncan MacGregor: How does it get out?
- Robert Roy MacGregor: Same road it got in.”
Liam Neeson - Rob Roy
David Brooks Palmer - Duncan
Jessica Lange - Mary

“What Aunt Bea did with the rest of the money was treat us all to a Broadway dance palace. She and Sy seemed very much in love, and she seemed happy. But it was not to be, because after a week Sy did not leave his wife and children, nor did he after two weeks nor ever. And as the year came to a close, Aunt Bea would soon be back to her old dreams...” (continue)(continue reading)
Woody Allen - Joe, the Narrator

Kermit the Frog here in Ocean View, Illinois, with the thank you note Big Bird left saying he was running back to Sesame Street. The note reads: "Dear Dodos, you are a very nice family. Thanks for everything, but I'm walking back to Sesame Street. I should be there in three hours, since it took two hours to fly here. So if anyone calls, you know... (continue)(continue reading)

Jim Henson - Kermit the Frog

- Neo: You believe in karma?
- Rama-Kandra: Karma's a word. Like "love". A way of saying 'what I am here to do'. I do not resent my karma. I'm grateful for it. Grateful for my wonderful wife, for my beautiful daughter. They are gifts. And so I do what I must do to honour them.
Keanu Reeves - Neo
Bernard White - Rama-Kandra

“- Willy Wonka: I don't feel so hot. What makes you feel better when you feel terrible?
- Charlie Bucket: My family.”
Johnny Depp - Willy Wonka
Freddie Highmore - Charlie Bucket

“- Michael Sullivan: I'd like to work for you.
- Frank Nitti: Well... that's very interesting.
- Michael Sullivan: And in return, I'd like you to turn a blind eye to... what I have to do.
- Frank Nitti: And what is that?
- Michael Sullivan: Kill the man who murdered my family.”
Tom Hanks - Michael Sullivan
Stanley Tucci - Frank Nitti

“As a welcome home present, I bought you such wonderful new clothes. I just hope that Richard doesn't get jealous that I didn't get him anything. Oh, but then, he is such a dear. I'm sure that he won't mind. You see, I've always wanted a little girl. But, of course, when my husband left... Oh, well, that's all water under the bridge, as I always...” (continue)(continue reading)

Desiree Gould - Aunt Martha

“I like you, you're all right. You've got real family loyalty. Too bad your sister ain't worth it!”

Thomas G. Waites - Smittie

“I have no heir. The Tudor Dynasty, all my father's work, finished, and it's my fault!”
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers - King Henry VIII

“This is my family. I found it, all on my own. Is little, and broken, but still good. Ya. Still good.”

Chris Sanders - Stitch

“- Karen Kelly: Are you saying you want Peyton to live here with you?
- Joe Kingman: Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying.
- Karen Kelly: You haven't even been in her life.
- Joe Kingman: That's not my fault. I didn't even know she existed! And we've come such a long way in a short time.”
Paige Turco - Karen Kelly
The Rock - Joe Kingman