Quotes About Family

I always want to have children running around in the garden and so I don't know what I am going to do with myself once they're all grown up.

My parents' garden is where I learned to play - and love - football. When I was little, only 4 or 5, I'd be out there with my dad, who taught me how to pass and shoot, first with my left foot and then with my right.

Before my parents came to England from Calcutta in the 1970s, they used to go to games at Eden Gardens.

There was a greengrocer on Rotherfield Street off Essex Road in Islington, north London. My brother Gary worked there for a couple of years and when he moved on I took over.

We were living in a tough situation, but my mother managed; she juggled. Sometimes we'd pay the light bill, sometimes we paid the phone, sometimes the gas went off.

I want to have a family and I'd like to live in a lovely big house, with a massive driveway and gates and loads of kids.

Even as a kid I wasn't, like, a natural entertainer, where I would gather everyone around me and then sing or something at family parties.

My mother was a dancer when she was a kid and I gather she was very good, but was never allowed to go into the profession.

The memories I can gather now of my parents are quite contradicting. My mother was the disciplinarian and my dad was the rule breaker.

When I was little, my parents would have these gatherings, and it was a common thing for me and my cousins to have to put on, like, shows.

Family gatherings were very important to me growing up.

My mother gave me a ball, and from then on, there was only football in my life.

I have quite a few gay couples and gay couples with children in my life.

I think, as a gay man in society, we are not accepted yet... let alone a gay man with a kid.

My parents are kind and accepting. Because so many of my friends were gay, it was just an accepted thing in my house. I was very lucky.

My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.

I grew up in a pretty gay world - my brother's gay and he's been married to a man for 20 years, which is like 60 in straight-people years.

My mom doesn't get the whole gay thing, but she loves me.

I'm the only gay person my parents know.

I would love to have children some day. I'd like little gay boys. That would be good.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay.

Because I am the daughter of Sachin and Supriya Pilgaonkar, people have expectations fixed on me as I gear up to carry the family legacy.

I think our whole family just never limited ourselves to what anybody expected of us based on our gender. I never grew up that way.