Quotes About Family

Some of the most rewarding times my brothers and I have are when all of us get together, and we can see what we've been building genetically and culturally.

It was a life decision, deciding which path to take in my career. I needed time to get together with my family and closest friends.

Because I am away so much, I try to establish home in people, rather than places. For example, wherever I get together with my brother the place we're in becomes home.

I savour the adulation and love I have been getting from my fans and the blessings of elders in my family.

I still like getting dressed up and having the opportunity to borrow beautiful dresses, but as a mother - and as somebody who's schedule isn't always my own - I don't shop a lot, or think about clothes a lot.

You never know what your parents are going to say when you tell them you're getting married - especially when it's with someone they haven't met yet.

Really getting married, settling down, and having a kid - that was the biggest thing for me. I realized, this little girl that came into my life, that I created with my wife, and how special is that?

I shocked my parents with a lot of things, whether it was becoming an actor or when I was dating someone outside the Egyptian community or when I moved away from home before getting married.

Before getting married, I was never really able to travel because of work and I was always with my parents.

I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.

I've got three kids, and my three kids make me feel like I'm getting older every day.

We got to see the world, we're put on some of the best teams in Europe, we made a lot of money, and then the flip side is it was 12 years of our parents getting older.

Six months after I was born, we moved to Ghana. The first five years of my life were there. In 1982, when there was a coup d'etat, my family left because the government was overthrown, and my dad was involved in politics.

My mom is from Ghana, and my dad is from Detroit, so I would go back and forth to Africa a lot.

I always spend my summer in Ghana. I don't go anywhere else.

I grew up in the U.K. and now reside in the United States, and my family is from Ghana.

My dad was born in 1930 in Lithuania, located in Eastern Europe. He was 9 years old when the war started, and his family was sent to the Kovno ghetto. They were soon separated and sent to the Dachau concentration camp in Germany.

I feel like I'm going to be like the ghetto 'Gilmore Girls' because I feel like this child is going to be more mature than I am because just look at me!

My mom knew early on that I was gay, and she knew that I had to get out of the ghetto.

The first ghost story I ever heard was from my mother.

I never think about gifts. It's enough to have my family present.

We always do a white elephant gift exchange on Christmas Eve, but my mom always gets really nice gifts for it. And we hang out in our PJs on Christmas Day.

I did some bad stuff. I don't remember what in particular, but I did some bad stuff. So the morning of Christmas, I wake up and my brother is there, my sister, my mom, everyone's got gifts and I can't find my gifts. No gifts. They acted like Santa didn't' bring me anything because I wasn't good.

I remember as a kid, my two brothers and I had to share gifts. We couldn't afford to have one for each of us. Today, when I buy a gift I have to buy for both my kids as I can't give something to only one of them.