Quotes About Family

The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it.

You can be cool and at the same time respect your woman, who will hopefully become your wife, who will hopefully become the mother of your kids. America needs to get back to family values.

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.

My wife, she still gives me a hard time, and says I hunt too much or I like to play golf too much. And she's probably right, but it sure beats some of the things I used to do.

One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.

If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came.

Every time I see a cardinal, I know my grandmother is with me. This regal, red bird was Grandma's favorite.

My mother's side of the family is from the Bahamas, and I spent time there on and off when I was growing up. It's the place where I feel at peace.

Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to - to balance the family ticket.

Men should have more time with their newborn babies.

Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.

The Columbia years are the most sentimental for me. My parents were together through most of that time and we were a happy, sort of normal family.

A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.

When I was a boy, we had forty five statues of saints in my house. Ever have ninety eyes looking at you every time you have to go to the bathroom?

At Christmas time we couldn't afford tinsel, so we'd wait till grandpa sneezed.

My family thought if I spent time in the military, I'd become more reasonable, a bit calmer. But I've always been extreme in what I do - both as a believer and a nonbeliever.

If you are close to your parents or a grandparent, you watch as they get old and you learn so much from that, and it makes you want to learn more while you have time.

My grandmother's brain was dead, but her heart was still beating. It was the first time we ever had a democrat in the family.

My parents are highly evolved worriers. ... If worrying were an Olympic sport, my parents' faces would have graced the Wheaties box a long time ago.

I am a true psychic. In my family it's the norm. My sister and mother are always 'in my head' and say or do the same things I'm doing at the same time.

By the time I was in my early teens, we were able to move into a much more middle-class area. I had a comfortable adolescence.

I hated hurting him. Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be glad to have me around, but I was the alpha and the omega of my parents' suffering.

Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame the family for its failure to be a family.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.