We’ve sourced some of the most interesting and thought-provoking Family And Friends Quotes from Vanessa Lachey, James Wolk, Juan Martin del Potro, Paula Garces, Elana Meyers. Each of the following quotes is overflowing with creativity, and knowledge.

The best advice I get is actually from my family and friends. That has been a huge resource I’ve come to rely on.
My family and friends and career are very important to me, but running allows me to be a better friend, a better family member, and makes me better at my career.
My family and friends help me a lot to never give up.
The first time I got pregnant, I was a young girl – I was 17 years old. Although I knew right away that I wanted to keep my child, being a pregnant teen was an extremely scary experience for me. Luckily, my family and friends were very supportive and were there for me every step of the way.
Making the transition from softball to bobsleigh was difficult, but my family and friends believed in me when no one else would.
I’m a normal lad, and if that changes, my family and friends will kick me straight back down, so it definitely won’t be changing.
‘Butterfly Mosque’ came out of the emails I wrote to family and friends back home after moving to Egypt.
The first trip I can remember would have to be to Marianna, Arkansas. My mother’s parents are from there, and we’d go every year to visit the church where they were buried. We’d attend church service that day, put flowers around their tombstones, and visit with family and friends that still lived there.
People tend to discuss things like relationships with family and friends, and the fact that I’m the only breadwinner in the family. And honestly, I cashed in on it.
Access to reliable Internet is a necessity, whether it’s for school, work, or staying connected with family and friends.
Of course, my mom is my biggest and loudest cheerleader, and my family and friends are happy for me, but I’m still just Angie, not Angie-the-author-with-this-hyped-up-book. I appreciate that.
The dark side is when you are with family and friends, and you have paparazzi screaming at you – that’s been hard to deal with.
I talk to Simon, I write to him. I never used to write a diary. But now I’m writing a diary to him. I think it’s not just me, but lots of others, family and friends, can still feel him around.
All my life, I heard, ‘Stop daydreaming,’ ‘Get over yourself,’ ‘You’ll never get there,’ ‘Aim lower,’ ‘You’ll hurt yourself,’ from teachers, family, and friends.
No coach can really survive very well in this business without support from his family and friends.
I love to write music, watch a Pixar film, or play video games with my family and friends.
I can relate to a guy who stays home and does it for his family and friends.
My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.
Joan of Arc was born 600 years ago. Six centuries is a long time to continue to mark the birth of a girl who, according to her family and friends, knew little more than spinning and watching over her father’s flocks.
I went to boarding school in the country, so there’s no real differentiation between family and friends. I went there from when I was 8 until I was 17 – it was insane. If you earn my friendship, you are my family, and I’ll do anything for you.
In talking about my cancer with family and friends, I feel the love that I know will get me through this. The old strategy of suffering in silence could not have been more misguided.
I know I’m really lucky to do what I do, but sometimes with the hours and the travelling, I don’t get to see my family and friends as much as I’d like. It can be lonely on the road. Sometimes I come offstage after a massive adrenaline rush, and then when I go to an empty hotel room on my own, it can be an anti-climax.
Occasionally, in the afternoons, I catch a movie, watch football, go to Sunday brunch, or visit with family and friends.
I don’t really like to pay attention too much to what is being said about me, only because the people closest to me – my parents, family, and friends – know me best. So I feel like their opinions mean more to me than anyone else’s.
My great hope for my speck of time on this planet would be that I live and die, and that what I leave behind has made some kind of impression and has been for the better in terms of my family and friends and, in my case, public service.
Id is the festival which I celebrate wholeheartedly. I love to celebrate it with family and friends.
We all act like we know everything in life, but nobody really does. That’s what I want people to realize. For me, I know that I’m the same person. Nothing has changed. My family and friends know that.
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one’s family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don’t ask for it. You just have to live with it.
I’ve been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.
With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn’t have to all make sense. I don’t have all the answers.
Of course my family and friends are incredibly valuable to me. They keep me sane, they teach me things and I love spending time with them. I think that ranking what you value is a sort of western and linear way of looking at things.
I’ve always got a home in England. My family and friends are there. It’s a place I hold very close to me.
It may sound crazy to people, but I don’t follow any spiritual leader or worship at any house of God. I just feel you should be good to people around you, your family and friends.
Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspired it, hoping for a white one, to wrapping presents. But mostly I love having family and friends gathered, and sharing traditions.
I do want to have holidays and see my family and friends.
I think I am staying in Toronto. It keeps me grounded and I can be with my family and friends.
I love working with family and friends because, as an actor, it makes my job easy. I feel comfortable with all of these people, and I feel more willing to take risks.
That’s what I love so much about my family and friends, man. They continue to support me at the same time they keep me grounded and talk to me like I’m with them.
If you look at the literature of the 19th century, you get things like Kafka and Dostoevsky, who basically write about feeling bored and alienated. That’s because we lost contact with the important things in life like work that you enjoy, or the garden, nature, your family and friends.
I know other people say that football isn’t easy as a sport for girls, but my family and friends have always been really supportive.
The hardest part about touring is being away from family and friends. When you’re gone for a long time, it’s especially hard for me to remember to keep in touch with certain people because there’s so much going on on the road.
I want someone honest, someone who’s very sweet to my family and friends, and polite to the other people around me.
The last thing family and friends want is for you to spend money on them that you don’t have or that you can’t really spare.
Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.
My wedding was a very private affair for close family and friends, so I had decided to hold a reception in my native town.
If you have a great woman, you don’t need family and friends.
I left my home, and it was the most beautiful country in the world in my eyes, and I was always happy in the summertime to go back. And then suddenly, the civil war starts, and you just worry first about your family and friends, and then an entire nation.
So much of what’s in my wardrobe is hand-me-downs, so my style was actually invented for me by family and friends.
A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to.
Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.
It is going to be special to drive in the Netherlands because it means I can take part in a Formula One demonstration in a country where I have a lot of family and friends.
I was always the one in my family that was into make-up and I was always the one teaching my family and friends.
Looking back I didn’t even know I was depressed, I was just so used to feeling that way and thought that was what life was. I tried telling my family and friends but they just blow you off and say: ‘Yeh right.’ They don’t know what it is, so they just don’t want to be around that.
We all have our own purpose in life and I feel very strongly that I have a bigger purpose than giving to just my immediate family and friends.
I’m passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin’ to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.
I have a great life, amazing family and friends, so it’s easy for people to be like, ‘What have you got to be sad about?’ But it’s not that; it’s a chemical imbalance in your brain that sometimes needs to be treated.
My favorite day is relaxing at home with family and friends.
‘The Waltons’ was profoundly important after years of wandering around. I was 44 and cut off from family and friends. It nurtured me back to a sense of family and who I am. It was a transforming experience.
My best career decision was probably not giving up when I wanted to. God as well as my family and friends were there for me during my toughest times.
When I began working in Yahoo, my family moved with me. Despite our efforts, our kids wanted to study in Los Angeles, and I was forced to see my family and friends only on weekends. In the beginning I even enjoyed it, but knew that at some stage I’d want to go back home.
I have a ritual every morning where I do my meditation and visualisation, then I give thanks and send love to my family and friends.
For me, cooking is very connected to my family and friends.
I text a lot people, because it’s how I stay connected with all my family and friends when I’m on set and traveling.
I’m blessed to have a supportive family and friends, who keep pushing me to never give up dancing whatever happens.
Playing three games each week, you are away a lot. So, yeah, moving away from family and friends and being away all the time would have to be my biggest sacrifice.
I like to go to the park with my family and friends and either play soccer, play tennis, or just go for walk.
I had people body-shaming me when I gained a lot of weight and as a teenager, your body is going to change. To get through it, you need to have great family and friends.
I really want to be in the final to play in front of my family and friends, but it’s not only that. I came to Arsenal because I want to win trophies. So to play in the final is important.
When I was little, I watched a lot of Disney movies – so I always imagined a big fairytale wedding as a kid. But when marriage became real, I felt an intimate wedding with close family and friends would be better.
YouTube and other sites will bring together all the diverse media which matters to you, from videos of family and friends to news, music, sports, cooking and much, much more.
Weekends are sacred for me. They’re the perfect time to relax and spend time with family and friends.
It’s equally as important to me to be a good friend and a good sister and a good daughter. I’m very close with my family and friends.
My feet are always on the ground. My family and friends make sure I stay there.
I’m very close with my family and friends.
Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand!
To my family and friends, I’m very definitely a clown. But do you know what? Doing a drama would almost seem easy because I wouldn’t need to find that gag in a line.
Luckily I’ve got family and friends to keep me grounded because there are a lot of negative people around who can suck the energy out of you.
Love is, to me, a lot of different things. It’s the love you have for yourself and if you have a family and friends. Your love for pizza. I feel like love can be really anything that you want it to be.
While I have never learned to use a computer, I am surrounded by family and friends who carry information to me from blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and various websites.
I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.
I was born in Luton, I grew up in Luton, and all my family and friends are still there. Luton is home for me.
The social aspects of food are really important to me – my favourite food-related memories are meals I’ve shared with my family and friends. Posting Instagram pictures of your food and then seeing your friends comment on it is just a modern form of that kinship.
I was tired of just kind of being on that express train, whatever you want to call it, so to speak. It just sort of shoots forward, and you have no creative autonomy, no control over your time, and there’s not much time for side projects or family and friends.
Fighting here in Houston in front of my hometown crowd with all of my family and friends to support me is huge.
I’d like to get back to my family and friends – believe it or not, I do have some real friends.
Desertion is the army’s dirty little secret. Since the beginning of the Iraq war, more than 20,000 American soldiers have given up the fight. Most of them disappear while at home on leave, fading into a network of family and friends, and the army does not typically chase them down.
Kids feel like they have to puff up or shrink. These reclusive qualities begin to develop because you feel that who you are is going to either be accepted or rejected by your family and friends.
Being able to travel with family and friends so they can cheer me on as I play is something it’s hard to put a price on; my point is simply that for all of this, there is indeed a price.
My favourite thing about the holiday season is to spend time with family and friends and to take time off to celebrate.
At the end of the day, we always show that truth triumphs. We don’t leave the movie in the middle saying, ‘Great, pick whatever you want to and go out there and do something wrong’. Bollywood is not the only influence in a person’s life. They are also affected by their family and friends.
It sucks being judged by the world instead of your close friends or family. I try to just realise that the only people who matter are my family and friends.
If I get a bit big-headed, I get a good clip round the ear from my family and friends. I’m still the same person.
I consider myself really lucky to be able to visit so many parts of the world, but after all of that, I love to come home. I appreciate my own space and the world I create for myself, my family and friends.
I think a perfect wedding would be where only your close family and friends are there.
My life is about family and friends as well as work.
Language leads a double life – and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus and shopping lists, you observe road signs, and so on. Then you enter your study, where language exists in quite another form – as the stuff of patterned artifice.
I’d grown up knowing all about Don Bradman and visited his museum in Bowral quite a few times and absolutely loved the place and then to go back there and receive my baggy green and play my first Test match there at the oval, and obviously my parents were there and a lot of family and friends, it was really cool.
All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.
I’d feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I’ve got.
I like to be judged by my family and friends because they know me.
I like to spend time with family and friends and share my experiences with them.
I am one of the lucky ones: I had the financial resources and support of family and friends that enabled to me to enter rehab three times. My last stint was in the fall of 2014, and I have now been clean for three years.
Who doesn’t like having love, companionship, care and affection? I get plenty of that from my family and friends. But I’m not averse to marriage.
It’s going to sound cheesy, but if I have family and friends I don’t really care where I am.
I know I’m known for dramas, but around my family and friends, I’m really goofy! Not saying I’m necessarily funny, but I’m very goofy.
Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends – they will never go out of fashion.
We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved.
My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends all call me T.I.P.
Essentially, I am a lazy bum. I prefer lolling around, watching movies and yapping away to glory with my family and friends, when I have the time.
There’s a great need to convene at the table with family and friends. People are feeling it and wanting it. For me to be a minor player in helping with that, it makes me so happy.
If I don’t need the money, I don’t work. I’m going to spend time with my family and friends, and I’m going to travel and read and listen to music and try to learn a little bit more about how to be a human being, as opposed to learning how to be somebody else.
If you’re cooking at home, you’ll eat healthier, and when you add family and friends into the mix, it enriches your social life, too.
I have a memory problem. My family and friends call me Lady Ghajini.
I like spending time with my family and friends on my birthday.
You’ve got to enjoy time with your family and friends, and if you’re involved in sports franchises, those peak moments in playoff games. You have to enjoy life.
As much as I would love to do roles in big movies and am keen to establish myself in the industry. I don’t want to sacrifice things that I really enjoy, like spending time with my family and friends.
I need my family and friends around all the time. They are always my number one priority, and that will never change.
I am what I am. I love golf, I love my life, I love my family and friends.
I have a coming-out story that’s probably very similar to lots of people who are my age: the fear of being rejected, the fear of losing your family and friends. You know, I worked through all of that, and that fear, and what that does to you, is pretty profound.
There are four seasons in Iran, so you can go winter skiing, you can go in summer to the beach… it’s not a real tourism place, but it’s a nice country if you have family and friends to visit there.
I love time with family and friends, but completely relish time on my own when I have no agenda to follow, no to-do’s, just me and time alone.
I try to stay focused on the work and recognize that I’ve been very lucky. Maybe it’s ’cause I grew up with actors, but I’ve seen that recognition comes and goes, so all there really is is your family and friends. You have to maintain those constants in your life. Maintain what’s beyond your work.
Most of my family and friends are very familiar with the human space flight program and with the excitement of becoming an astronaut.
Each Passover, I prepare all sorts of fancy desserts for my family and friends, often experimenting with adaptations of sophisticated modern fare.
Between acting jobs, I’d go visit my hometown and college town to see family and friends. But I would also teach acting, dance, singing, and audition techniques in high schools and colleges. I take great pride in all the survival jobs I worked, because I learned so much from them.
I never thought I’d be making a living off of acting – it’s still kind of a shock for my family and friends to see my face on TV every Wednesday night.
I didn’t survive because I was stronger than others. I survived because my family and friends helped me to survive. They took my place. My job is to give them back their dignity, tell their story, and say their names.
I have great family and friends who constantly uplift me and make me feel good about myself.
The dearest people around me are my family and friends.
Living in Europe is very hard. You’re away from your family and friends for eight months and playing, traveling, training every day.
The U.K. is one of the places that has always been an advocate of my music and I spend a lot of time touring here. I’ve got family and friends over here, but more than that, there’s a large Jamaican community and the Jamaican culture is very widespread in the U.K. which I love.
I have such a beautiful, strong family and friends, and they are like everything to me.
If I keep God first in my life, if I keep my family and friends as second, and then I keep my occupation third, that’s when I’ve found success.
I think perhaps we all cook to feed some kind of hunger in ourselves. I am nourished by being surrounded by family and friends, by creating something delicious for them, by nurturing them.
All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheesemaking class a few weeks ago, and I told my family and friends to only get me kitchen stuff on my birthday. I’m into every kind of cookbook and anything by Anthony Bourdain. I’d love to own a restaurant if I could find the right chef.
Money is a huge issue for manic depressives. Sometimes the problem is not nearly on the same scale as it has been for me, but nonetheless, it’s difficult to deal with. Many get themselves into debt that can take years to clear up, write bad cheques, shoplift and borrow huge amounts from family and friends.
I signed for Mohun Bagan and then I got the news that Bhaichung also joined the club. The first day he met me he told me that I have heard about you and you are doing well. I told everyone in my family and friends that Bhaichung told me that.
The fall season brings Thanksgiving and the beginning of the holiday season. Sharing meals with family and friends are a key element of this joyful time of the year. We are faced with an abundance of food, and can easily gain extra pounds as a result.
I still mess around and joke with my family and friends like I did when I was nine or 10. For me, nothing’s changed. Sure, I play football, but I try to keep my life off the pitch as simple as possible.
In many ways ‘Emmerdale’ is a huge part of my life but in many ways it’s not. I’ve always had so many interests elsewhere – family and friends and other interests away from that.
Those of us who were fortunate enough to know my mother – her family and friends – knew her to be a genuine, warm and loving woman – a woman who always put her family first.
Today’s kitchen is all about a well-planned space that makes cooking a completely interactive experience among family and friends.
One thing I didn’t understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn’t buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn’t know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.
Mostly, I’m totally happy in my own space at home with the door closed with my family and friends.
We have to recognize that we can help increase happiness of other people by reaching out, and building connections. People have done that for me in my life. There have been many times that my family and friends have reached out to help support me and contributed to my emotional wellbeing, and ultimately to my health.
I’ll tell you what I’m grateful for, and that’s the clarity of understanding that the most important things in life are health, family and friends, and the time to spend on them.
Leaving America means renouncing your citizenship, moving out of the country and leaving family and friends behind. You can retain your citizenship if you like, but you’ll still be away from loved ones and still be paying taxes. You lose all the good stuff about America and have to keep all the bad stuff.
Because we’re playing tournaments week in and week out I’d think to myself, ‘What’s the point in practising?’ You have no down time to yourself and you’re looking for some to spend with your family and friends. But I’ve now realised that with the game so cut-throat and standards going up every week, it doesn’t work.
My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.
The family and friends and the people I surround myself allow me to keep my feet firmly on the floor and not get too big-headed.
Any one of us could fall on hard times. Work and housing have the potential to be unstable, especially for those earning low wages or relying on family and friends. It should not be a criminal offence to sleep on the street.
When I booked ‘Hairspray,’ I really didn’t have a support system other than my family and friends.
We live life in restaurants, its the center of social life, where we celebrate with family and friends, make new friends, travel without traveling, and of course, eat.
I love skiing, I love the sun, I love my children, I love my grandchildren, I love my family and friends… and whatever I haven’t done.
Inspiring passion in family and friends has more enduring value than just staying alive for them.
Six months away from family and friends is a long time. Emotionally, you go through some ups and downs. Life changes on the ground, and you have to ready for that. Life changes for you up here as well.
None of the longest-lived people ran marathons or pumped iron. They live exactly as their grandparents before them – surrounded by family and friends.
We don’t have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it’s important to be with our family and friends.
Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What’s that all about? I’ve got kids and family and friends, and I don’t like bad things. I don’t think they’re funny, and it’s irresponsible to make movies that don’t show you how that’s not good.