Patricia MacLachlan Quotes

I think we are defined as human beings through our families, no matter what kind of family - through our relationships with parents, brothers and sisters.

I have a great family myself so I know if you don't have a family you've got nothing. Nothing else can take the place of the family - not girlfriends or a career.

Maybe family is an eternal subject for me.

I definitely have family on the brain.

Many people don't have relationships to their siblings in adulthood, or they have superficial ones. It's sort of unfashionable, particularly in America, to be close to your family.

I talked about my family, my family's so important.

The family is the most important unit of society…. When all is said and done, there is nothing more important than the family.

I grew up in a family where I had a lot of different siblings from - you know, I grew up in a big family, and I think it's a beautiful thing.

I think a family is the best way to open up the appeal of a show because everyone has a mother. Everyone has a father. Everyone has cousins or siblings. Everyone's trying to pursue their romantic ideals and their relationship ideals.

'Queen Sugar' is a drama about family. It's something that allows us to be ourselves and see the ways that we interact with our own families.

We zero in on family as a theme because it makes the movies emotionally available to a universal audience.

I've got good family support.

Parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles are made more powerful guides and rescuers by the bonds of love that are the very nature of a family.

I've experienced love and ambition and desire in my life, but never in the same way as in a family.

Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form.

I write about families. That is who we are.

I like stories that affect families.

I've got two older sisters who I'm very close to. And my son's grown up with a big sense of family around him.

I grew up in a strong family; we had strong family bonds.

I'm endlessly fascinated with the ways families work and the ways they don't.

I was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it's funny, because most of my best friends come from very large families. So it always felt as if I had lots of siblings, though in the end I had to leave them and go home. I kind of got the best of both worlds as a kid.

Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.

I think a lot of the time, we don't give our family connections the kind of credit they deserve, like how important they are to us and how much they mean to us. I think family makes all the difference.

I'm the eldest of four - I love my family so much. I'm crazy about them.

For almost five years on 'Happy Days,' I have had a mom and pop and a brother who give me advice and help me just as my own parents and brothers and sisters do at home.