Quotes About Family

I hope I help lead my son's high school team to a state championship by the time I'm 45. I don't think I'm gonna have a helmet on when I'm 45.

Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.

I feel so blessed. I have two wonderful children, and I'm channeling my energy and my experience to help others.

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.

Having kids has been great for me. I have two beautiful step- kids, as well as my own new daughter. They've really helped me to keep my feet firmly on the ground, and life is good. I feel like I'm the luckiest guy here.

My grandparents had always helped look after me, they were always there.

I come from a football family which has really helped.

Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.

My father helped me become a ballplayer and take the good with the bad.

I didn't cook that much as a kid. My mother was cooking, and I was her helper. We made dishes together.

I think having children in general is always very helpful for acting.

My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more.

My mother was very good about giving us a life that was, let's say, as normal as it could be, not a crazy jetting life at all. That's been helpful. It's given me the drive to be someone in the world rather than just sitting around.

My daughter is like a tether back to the functional world, and I'm aware of how helpful that is.

Sometimes, people do the darkest acts in the name of helping protect their loved ones.

I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.

But I want to start a family one day, and be involved in more charities, helping children.

By helping a woman, you help a family.

My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, 'What can I do?'

I think, probably when I was 15 or so, I was going through a really hard time with my family, and I just felt really helpless - I didn't know how to put anything I was feeling into words, and I was really confused, and I felt like nobody would hear me, but I didn't even know what to say.

I think that it's important if you run for President that you have to make those important decisions. And your father, if he can help, probably, he helps just by being your father without getting intimately involved.

I am not a Hemingway aficionado.

I'm the middle child in my family and I sometimes feel like a mother hen.

My dad is actually an amazing guitarist, and he always had an incredible record collection, which is how I discovered things like Jimi Hendrix and Santana. I'll always be grateful for that.