Quotes About Family

My family taught me radical politics from the beginning, but I also learned to prove myself in elite institutions.

My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.

I was brought up by a father and mother who were radically different.

I've got kids now; it changes you radically.

I've always been music-oriented. My dad was a musician, and I listened to the radio all of the time.

Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.

My father used to get me to read the newspaper to him, as if I was a radio. I would stand there and read the 'Times.'

I can see parts of my father in 'Kingdom' when I rage like that. I can see my father's frustrations in his life.

I understood rage from my dad, who was an exquisite blend of rage and generosity of spirit.

My dad never really wrote what he thought. None of his inner rage and darkness and problems, which we all have, made it on to the page. For him, writing was a process of making everything appear funny.

My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches,' but in fact, the Rosses were never raggedy.

I came from a poor family. My father was from Glasgow, Scotland; my mother's brothers were brakemen on the railroad. We didn't have anything but mush for breakfast.

For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.

I come from a line of railroad men. My great-grandfather was a surveyor for the Burlington Railroad.

I watch 'Singin' in the Rain' at least once a year with my grandchildren, and they just adore it.

Me and my mum were really close. She'd come to all my football games; she was the one who was always there. If it was raining, and I didn't want to go, she'd say, 'Get in the car!'

My grandmother would talk about having bananas at teatime and carrying palm fronds when the monsoon rains came, and I accepted all of those stories because they were like poetry.

Nothing is promised for long or forever, so you have to put something away for rainy days. Especially when you got kids.

My mama used to tell us ghost stories in the evening on rainy days.

Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.

Diabetes is a serious illness that touches the lives of so many of our family members, friends and communities and we must do all that we can to raise the awareness of this disease.

When I'm, like, 30, I want to go off the map, have a family and live in Malibu with a farm, and just raise my own chickens.

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

I'll be a nun, raise my daughter, and make albums.