Quotes About Family

When I look at my own career, growing up, I was doing really well at age 11, but it was kind of isolating because back then, people weren't hanging out with me. My mom was always there. She had my back and was like, 'You keep focused. You gotta keep focused.' And I think those kinds of lessons were hard.

I was not one of those children hanging on Ma's coat-tails following her round sets. I'd go to the theatre after school if she was working, but I didn't even know what an agent was.

My parents were artists, bohemian, hanging out a lot.

If I'm home, just hanging around with the kids.

Don't get me wrong, I love my family, but I love teaching and hanging out with the guys.

I remember li'l ol' Hank Jr. - he was just a baby back in them days, you know - but he used to hang around. His mama would bring him around. He was just a natural.

I'm great at telling stories with the kids. I do all my different accents. We make our own stories up all the time, the four of us, me and Hannah and the kids.

I'm not defined by baseball. I'd love for the Hall of Fame to happen, but if it doesn't, my life won't change. I'll still be coaching my boy's games.

Having a child is the best thing that could happen.

I have a daughter and she's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse to watch cartoons.

Fatherhood is the best thing that has happened to me.

I'm not as concerned about me. What's happened to me has been great. I got five great kids. Seventeen grandchildren.

Isn't that the great thing about Christmas? You get a lot of respite, time to recharge your batteries, time with family without too much else happening anywhere else in the world, time to focus on the people you love and the activities that you enjoy, time to exercise, to read.

When I was 4 or 5, I attended my father's concerts. He very often played Strauss waltzes as encores and I saw something happening with the audience.

People who think my dad is a bully, you should probably just hang out with him for a day and see what happens.

I'm never happier than when I'm with my family.

When I'm home I'm just happier, more at peace and more settled. It's fine being away, but it's not really living.

I am a much happier 27-year-old than I was at 20 years old. I am so fortunate because I have an amazing family, amazing friends and a great support system.

Home was extremely normal. But my dad's life was quite exotic, really. When I went away to stay with him, it was a different world. I never wanted to be in that world. I was much happier with my mates at home.

When Hillel died, it was during one of the happiest times of my life. I was married and completely in love and had a baby on the way.

It's the happiest time in my life when my family's all together.

It's what makes me the happiest - to make beautiful things for the people I love, and to fill my home with love and laughter and music and food and people.

It's critically important to have family around me, and some of my happiest moments are when I'm just with my family.

I'm happiest with my family around me.