Quotes About Family

I'm a simple man. I work out. I live and breathe wideout play and I love my family.

When my mother told me they have to sell me, I couldn't breathe; I couldn't speak.

When you are on the court and a guy shanks a ball off the line, and I think it's the end of the world, then I think about my brother being in a bed for three straight weeks not able to breathe on his own, and it doesn't seem as bad.

You can't separate a house from a family. It's a living, breathing home.

Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing.

I was really close to my father since I was young. He always told me that I had to work in order to become a man, so I had to stay with him when my mother left. He always took me to work to help him as a bricklayer. I was just a kid, so I did what I could do to help him.

'The Cardturner,' while it has bridge in it, you certainly don't need to know how to play bridge to read it. It's basically a book about relationships - between Alton and his great-uncle, and Alton and his friends, and how it changes his life.

I was born in Egypt, and my family moved to London when I was seven. I grew up mostly in Clapham, where I also went to school after a brief stint in Whitechapel.

I remember 'Resurrection Boulevard.' It was on for such a brief moment, but they were trying to do a good, Latino, Mexican-American family with a patriarch.

My kids are pretty secure, bright, and know who they are.

My sister's great. She's very bright; she's very private.

Our parents were just brilliant parents who encouraged us to do whatever we wanted to do.

My mother was one of the most dynamic and brilliant women I have ever known. She was also mercurial and unfocused.

Michael did it all. I am telling you that he is the most brilliant father. Almost before the baby needed something, he knew what it was.

All my kids are brilliant.

If I played badly as a kid, my dad would tell me, and my mum would say, 'You were brilliant today'. It's nice to have both: when I need a bit of confidence, I'll see her, and if I need to hear it straight, I'll see my dad.

You hear these yummy mummies talk about being the best possible mother, and they put all their effort into their children. I also want to be the best possible mother, but I know that my job as a mother includes bringing my children up so, actually, they can live without me.

Through my whole career, that's been a major thing - bringing my family with me.

I like bringing the girls on set, but if I can't do that then the next day I feel I have to be uber-mum to make up for it. Then I'm exhausted and feel like I'm running in fumes.

It's very lonely bringing up a child on your own.

My mother was a mother. She didn't really work, apart from bringing us up, which a job in itself, but at an age where lots of people are thinking of retiring, so is having up to 20 or 30 engagements a day, and she's brilliant at it - she has always been brilliant with people.

Christmas time... is about bringing everyone together.

Our family brings a different amount of - not fame - attention.

The arrival of any child brings you a lot of happiness.