Quotes About Family

When I look back, I did what I had to do for business and then fit family life into it.

I was relatively isolated from people of color. My parents are too old to be Baby Boomers; they had me later in life. So we didn't listen to any black music at all in the house, not even Ben E. King.

I've been a dad since I was nineteen, so I think a lot about fatherhood and the power of that sacrifice in your life.

My style icon really for my whole life has been my mother.

If I'm going for advice for anything in my life, I go straight to my father because he has the answers.

I've always been kind of surrounded by music my whole life, so my earliest memories of it were just hearing it in the house.

Am I going to be able to provide a real home for her, man? An education? A real life? What's her college application going to look like: 'Raised on Spooky Island by wizard with GED, please help'?

Grandparents...can give the children unity of family life and some knowledge of their own family history.

I reached a point in my life where I didn't really like who I was.I was married to an amazing woman. I had children, and yet there was frustration.

What kind of life are you leading where you consider ketchup fancy? "Well, we ain't rich folk, but on special occasions, I'll break out the ketchup. Grandma's birthday, make her feel special"

For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family.

No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.

You're sitting there, with your wife and your baby and your smiling dog, and you're watching Real Housewives getting into fistfights on TV. And you go, 'How great is my life? I'm so happy right now.'

It wasn't a conscious effort to have kids later. It was just the way life goes.

My father was a doctor so I was around death all my life. So, I was very used to it because he was a f-king doctor.

I grew up on a farm - it was a lovely life; we'd make tree houses all day - and my parents worked from home.

My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant.

What I didn't realize is how completely consumed I would be by my sons. I didn't know that the rest of my life would become so little a priority.

Never experiencing the life of the mind scars entire families for generations.

I led a comfortable life, went to good schools and was privileged in many ways, but my father worked hard. We never considered ourselves rich.

It's funny, 'cause you think surfing is your whole life, but then when you make a family it seems like it's not at all.

My working life has always been wrapped up in doing my job to the best of my abilities and doing the best for my family. It is not a contest between the two.

Toate familiile fericite se aseam?n? între ele. Fiecare familie nefericit? este nefericit? în felul ei.

Happy the man, whose wish and careA few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native airIn his own ground.