Quotes About Family

I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have to cop a whole lot of collateral attention that, being human, they'd rather not get.

The further I get away from coaching, the more I know I made the right decision. You almost forget how wonderful family life is.

It's very important to be in your child's life and know what's going on and be there with them.

My family absolutely comes first, and I don't mean that in a Pollyanna way. It's the focus of my life because it's what makes me happy.

I want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don't want nannies raising my kids.

I can't wait to be a mom and a wife, and explore that phase of life. And also see how it affects and influences my song writing and creativity.

I take pride in my life-my wife, my family. I try my best not to have football define the person that I am.

Domestic violence was a way of life in my home growing up, my brother and I watched helplessly numerous times as my mother was beaten and knocked unconscious while we dialed 911.

I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.

when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.

I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.

I am impressed by how much of my grandparent's life depended on continuities, contacts, connections, friendships, and blood relationships.

There is a compulsion that is perhaps the heart of life's meanings, this marvelous mystery of blood ties that brings joy whenever a new family member comes on the scene.

I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.

We played in an era where you were taught to hate your opponent. But life changes. I raise my kids differently than my mom and dad raised their kids.

My relationship with my mother has always felt like the most complicated relationship of my life. I know I have a lot more writing to do on this.

In real life, holidays are extremely stressful. They're the best of times and worst of times because you have got people trying to get along with people that you don't always get along with.

Home is the sacred refuge of our life.

I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.

I do know I want to have children. That's the only thing missing in my life. I certainly thought I'd have some by now.

I don't want to blame it on not having a father figure in my life, but that has a lot to do with it too.

My mother was a singer, and I never heard her sing a note in my life.

My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television.

I have two older brothers and they were a huge part of life; we were very close. We used to run around and get into trouble. That's what I came from - that exploring nature.