When I usually go to my studio to work, I start with something that is going to take two minutes just to put some idea down and the next thing I know, ten hours have gone by and my family is screaming at me because they want me to come up to have dinner with them.

There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.

Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.

I've spent so much time the last seven, eight years in Los Angeles, away from my family, away from my friends, away from the city that is my favourite place to be and I just want to come here and have a proper life.

We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.

I've been here for nine years, and over that time, these people have become like my family.

I'm happiest at home hanging out with the kids... Having a family has been my saving grace because I don't work back to back on anything or I'd drive myself to an early grave with guilt and worry for my family, whom I'd never see.

The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.

Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel.

In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family.

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.