Quotes About Family

I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.

I'm in no position to try to tell people how to live their family life.

I am very much enjoying the fatherhood phase of my life.

I've felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father's family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

If it wasn't for my sport and my father, I'd probably be a fallen statistic. I'd be dead; I'd be in jail. Luckily, I had a great dad in my life.

I believe my father has and always will be the strongest influence in my life, as he has guided me on many paths.

With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.

My entire life had been this long, pressured conversation about the family I represented. 'When you walk out the door, you represent us. You have to dress well and make sure your hair is combed.

Is there life in other families?

My mom is really great with me and for me, because I think she makes an effort to make sure there is some normalcy in my life, and her and my dad don't really treat me any differently.

My mum Margaret was a single parent, but though life was a bit of a struggle she gave me every encouragement.

I never thought in my life, I never really thought I would get married. I watched my parents go through a divorce, and I thought, like, this is just not something people are supposed to do.

My sons are my proudest 'accomplishments' in life and I get energised seeing their individual personalities develop as they grow up.

America is a country of strong families and strong values. My life's been blessed by both.

It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.

My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.

A policy of life insurance is the cheapest and safest mode of making a certain provision for one's family.

I have always been happy to have daughters rather than sons. You never really can be mad at girls for anything in life.

I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing - just as my mom's had before me, and her mom's had before her.

My parents taught my sister and me the importance of giving back and making a difference in another person's life.

My wife never look at me anymore, my children, my wife ... we only die once in our life. I'm dying every day when I get up in the morning.

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

I know I'm always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That's for sure. It's about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.

If you don't have some sort of belief system by which to center your life, it's hard sometimes to understand why you would put up with your family.