Quotes About Family

I speak about family and adoption because it 100% changed my life and who I am. It definitely played a very large role into just learning how to be grateful for what you have and being fulfilled in a way that a lot of adopted kids don't feel.

When my parents separated, I was very grateful.

I guess I would be most grateful for my family and my friends and my dogs, my boyfriend. I'm grateful for a lot. I'm grateful to be healthy.

I'm so lucky, I'm just really grateful for what I've got around me - children and my wife and everything else.

I'm grateful for my family: that's what defines me; that's what makes me whole.

I'm just grateful that my parents still love each other.

If you look at the whole thing, I think the most gratifying thing is my kids, without a doubt.

Then to have Brett come along and follow in the footsteps, it's so gratifying. I get as much enjoyment out of watching Brett play as I did of entertaining people myself.

I live each day full of gratitude, and that's good for my children.

I'd love to do a play with Ma but I don't know whether that's like literally filling in your own grave and putting the gravestone on top.

As a father I can't imagine the pain of digging my own child's grave.

My family quite innocently don't understand the ins and outs of it all, but they see things like the Burberry show and the Live Lounge, so they understand the gravity of those things, but they're proud - it's cool.

Without parents, you sort of lose the gravity that keeps your feet on the earth.

My own particular feline companion answers, or rather doesn't answer, to Cinnamon. One of my kids must have given her the name, even though she's mostly gray and white.

'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.

I was brought up on animal grease.

With my family as my audience, I used to sing, dance, and reenact every scene from 'Grease,' 'Newsies' and 'Les Miserables' as many times as they would let me.

I am a great believer in found families and I'm not a great believer in blood.

I'm a great believer in eccentrically-shaped modern families. Because I've seen them work so well. And as long as everyone loves each other, it can work very well.

I knew that there was a great deal of depth and life that was sitting just beyond my mother's gaze.

I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There's that period in the late '90s, the early 2000s, where I didn't do a great deal.

My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.

My whole family, my father's side, there was a great deal of depression, and my mother's side as well.

I have a great deal of admiration for my mum.