Quotes About Family

Hands down, my son fighting for a world title, that's bigger than me going into the Hall of Fame.

I'm always happy to get folded into the Hallmark family.

My boys, Blaise and Cass, run Halloween at our house with the help of my sister who always makes their costumes.

We're gone for 280, almost 300 days a year. So 70 to 80 days I'm home every year. Being an artist, you just gotta be ready to miss certain things, like Halloween and all these kind of things that you used to be able to be free for. Birthdays, all this kind of stuff.

I love Halloween. I love Thanksgiving. I love Christmas. I love New Year's.

I remember arguing with my dad to let me dress up to go to a Halloween party in seventh grade, but I never in my childhood went trick-or-treating.

I took my kids everywhere. I didn't have money for child care, so I took them to college with me and they sat in the hallway.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

There's been a ham in every generation of our family.

I was at Arsenal but I didn't like the manager of the under-10s at the time so I went to West Ham where my brother played.

My brothers nicknamed me 'Hamburgers.'

The Hamilton name will live on way beyond me now, which I'm very happy to be a part of.

Hamilton' has changed my life in so many ways. I really do have a family from that show. The people that I shared that stage with every night- they mean so much to me and they're so special and so talented. I'm just a fan of every single one of them and it was an honor to share that stage with them.

I have never wanted to check out the family folklore that we could be traced back to a dominie at the hamlet of Balquhidder in the Scottish highlands.

My father had hammered into me, you want to look after your family, you want a nice house, and you want to be able to enjoy yourself, and you have to work very hard for those things. Don't think the world is going to come to you.

Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little small one, tell me to fill it up. I never did like the farm but I was out there with my grandmother, didn't want to get away from around her too far.

This devaluing of listening is handed down from generation to generation. There are many children who don't have the experience of being listened to by their parents.

but had to pay for the rest of the family's coverage with after-tax dollars.

We come from people who brought us up to believe that life is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this will pass.

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out his nose.

I used to think that kid might become a preacher. Now I don't see how he's going to stay out of prison. Nobody in this family ever went to prison for sex crimes. He'd be the first. Yes, says Jesus, you never know about these things. He and Grandpa are drinking cups of coffee and eating ginger snaps. Grandpa says, When are you planning to return to earth? Soon as I finish this coffee, say Jesus. Pretty good, isn't it.

I longed for the pitter-patter of little feet, so I got a dog. It's cheaper, and you get more feet.

What liberals must conserve is the middle class: the stable family who can afford to enjoy music and theater and take the kids to Europe someday and put money in the collection plate and save for college and keep up the home and be secure against catastrophe. This family has taken big hits in payroll taxes and loss of buying power and a certain suppressed panic about job security.