Quotes About Family

For my birthday, my old man showed me a picture of a cake. I sat there all day trying to blow out the candles.

What a childhood! I was breast-fed by my father.

I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.

I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.

My mother had morning sickness after I was born.

In my life I've been through plenty. When I was three years old, my parents got a dog. I was jealous of the dog, so they got rid of me.

I was always depressed, but I could tell a joke and get a laugh. But not from my mother. She never thought my jokes were funny.

When I was a kid, I got no respect. I told my mother I'm gonna run away from home. She said, "On your mark…

With my ol' man, I got no respect. He told me to start at the bottom. He was teaching me how to swim.

My mother, she never breastfed me. She told me she liked me as a friend.

for many people conversion is simply a matter of aligning their religious life with that of their family, friends, and neighbors who already have joined—thus creating a self-sustaining network of growth. Finally, for many people of privilege and ambition, their abandonment of paganism was a matter of opportunism—many people professed Christianity or were discreet about their paganism in order to gain social and political advantages.

Andy also skipped his wife's private burial in the Brooklin Cemetery, in July, 1977. None of us in the family expected otherwise or held this against him. And when his own memorial came, eight years later, I took the chance to remark, "If Andy White could be with us today he would not be with us today.

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.

La excursión por el pequeño mundo que nos rodea, el mundo de la familia, el hogar, la comida y el vestido, nos ayuda a entender la inmediatez del enjambre de símbolos que nos envuelve.

I've been very fortunate. I feel very thankful. I've been able to come home and do some fun things and make it exciting for people here at home.

Part of the process of getting out, of uprooting, is to shed origins. In Rome, as elsewhere in my family, the past was less a source of fascination than a thing to be overcome.

is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely.

Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.

I think when someone is injured in your family, you want to speak to the individual and you want to hear their voice and you want to make sure they are OK.

The one thing I would hope would go on my tombstone is, 'I made my parents proud.'

If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

I speak relatively little, except when I'm at home and I'm asking for things.