Quotes About Family

When you're in a single-parent home, they try to give you a good foundation, but by the time you're 4 or 5 years old, from that point on you're pretty much on your own.

Having a little boy gave me a foundation and centred my life a bit more.

I may not have served myself, but I grew up witnessing service, and it was perhaps my most foundational experience. For a little background, I'm what's called a brat in military circles.

My parents lovingly passed down the lessons of their lives so that my sister, Jana, and I may also teach our children the foundational principles of a life well lived. There was something else my father passed on, quite unintentionally, I'm sure: learning disabilities. My father is dyslexic, and so am I.

The expectation with family foundations is that if your name is on the foundation, unless you're dead, it's your money that's being given away. And even if you are dead, it was your money before.

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

When the founders retire, it's always difficult for the second generation and third generation.

The best thing about having four big brothers is you always have someone to do something for you.

I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years.

I am the fourth of five children, and I can't remember a time with no babies in the house.

Now, I don't think I'd particularly care if somebody criticised me for having got to a certain level of success because I'm Ed Fox's and Joanna David's son. I know that's not true.

When the Murdoch family leadership chose Suzanne Scott to lead Fox News who had been at the channel for a number of years and knew inside and out, the system of winning, I was excited.

My father had his demons; our relationship was difficult and fractured. But I don't ever think, 'Poor me,' I just feel blessed that I had my mother. She was such a great mum.

My parents live there, and I was born and raised in Scotland. I lived there for the first 11 years of my life, until my parents decided to take our family to France where we lived for a couple of years. We then moved back to Scotland, and that is where I feel most home - where I come back to myself, and I love more than I can say.

France is my home; you are my family. I am carrying all of you in my heart.

I grew up in San Francisco. And I grew up with gay parents.

The best tattooists are in San Francisco, and they're kind of like my family now. I'm always excited to come back to San Francisco.

Work does come home with us, but home also comes to work. Our kids are regulars at Eventbrite's HQ in San Francisco.

My parents came to San Francisco when they were probably 19 or 20, in the mid-'60s.

To be quite frank and honest with you, it drives me absolutely crazy when my kids fight, the sound of them fighting and not getting along.

My family is very excited about me doing Anne Frank.

Yes, there is another brother. His name is Frankie.

Even though I wrote 'The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family,' my life is as chaotic as most people's.

I know my dad is a big Internet freak, and he's been known to be a Wikileaker.