Quotes About Family

I live a very privileged life, obviously. I'm an accomplished actor, I have a very solid normal family, tons of siblings, and a mother that loves me.

I'm from a big family - I'm the youngest of seven - and my wife is one of four. So we always wanted a lot of kids. It's what we're used to, and for us it's what life is all about.

My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.

If you are not bored by life, and your primary motto is enthusiasm and if you like your friends, family around you, it all translates into your designs. That's what keeps the creativity alive.

A great need a mother has to know that her daughters will find somebody or will be okay in life. That's very primal as they get older. You know, you should get married, you should have children.

My relationship with my parents is among the greatest gifts of my life.

Whatever you do, protect those you care for. Without them, life is more miserable than you can imagine.

The towers fell, and the first thing that went through my head was my dad's voice: 'Well, you brought a new life into the world, and the world's over. Nice timing, numbnuts!

A psychic once read my palm and told me I was my mother's mother in a past life. Isn't that weird?

My children were the center of my life.

I've always felt lucky because my parents included my sister and I in their cultural life.

The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase.

I believe that we live in a time of fractured families where maybe fathers aren't getting enough time to see their kids because life's complications and hardships get in the way of those things.

Malcolm Muggeridge famously said that "without God we are left with a choice of succumbing to megalomania or erotomania."3 The court's majority, in declaring by sheer judicial fiat the equal dignity under law of the family and sodomy, would appear to have gone Muggeridge one better by succumbing to both at once.

I'd be a liar if I said I had a normal family.

I don't think anyone has a normal family.

Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother.

It's amazing. I can't believe how brilliant the whole thing is - my daughter, Georgia, is just wonderful.

May this morning prayer give me the energy to act at all times this day with love and kindness. May I treat each person and each living being as a brother or sister, as a member of your sacred family.

Jonson wrote a poem and called his son His best piece of poetrie A lovely line a little loathsome I loved that poem once He said we are lent our sons never take Too much pleasure in what you love

Our meeting was inevitable. Our love was terminal. But God and Goddess damn it, our daughter was no mistake at all.

Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it's guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family.

The most important reason to wind down the operation was that time was worth more to me than the extra money. Vivian and I wanted to enjoy our children and their families, and to travel, read, and learn. It was time once again to change course in life.

Also, human groups are formed of highly flexible alliances, not just among family members but between families, genders, classes, and tribes. The bonding is based on cooperation among individuals or groups who know one another and are capable of distributing ownership and status on a personal basis.