Quotes About Family

Because my mother was in love with Bobby Darin, I grew up with his records playing in our house all the time.

My mom has always been a huge inspiration. She was a single mom raising two kids in New York. Now that is full-on all the time.

My two sisters and I sang all the time. Whenever we cleaned the kitchen, we sang in three-part harmony.

Growing up, I never heard my parents curse, never. The first time I ever said a curse word was with my sister Kim.

Holidays do bring out the craziness in everyone. This time of year tends to being out the insanity in otherwise normal people.

It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents.

Terry Kitchen asked me one time why, since I had so few gifts as a husband and father, I had gotten married. And I heard myself say: "That's the way the post-war movie goes.

My father [Joe Germanotta] opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

Happy is the child who happens in upon his parents from time to time to see him on his knees, or going aside regularly, to keep times with the Lord.

There's nothing better than a Nebraska summer so I wanted to live there in the summer time and visit my family and go to as many Nebraska games as I could.

I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them.

Once upon a time there were two parents, two children, and a brick house with lilies in the yard. The parents died, the lilies wilted. One child disappeared. Then the other." Pg 225

Mom and Dad were great, but being asked where I was going every time I left the house - or where I'd been every time I returned - got old quickly.

Every time I've been to Los Angeles, I've hated it. My brother works there, so I usually go each year for a holiday.

I am so grateful for after-school snack time, when I light a candle, pour some tea, slice some apples, and get to listen in on my kids' highs and lows of the day.

My kids can't watch ('Howard the Duck'). By the time I get in bed with the duck, they are, like, 'Turn it off, mom. You in bed with a duck is just pretty much a deal breaker.'

When I do get free time, I spend a lot of it at home with my family and my close friends and I think that's what keeps me happy, healthy, grounded, and totally in check.

My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.

My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home.

I don't buy the 'at 60 it's great to have kids' thing. I don't buy the line that has been thrown down - 'You can have a kid at any time.' That doesn't mean you should.

I would never say out loud that I am raising my children alone, but a lot of the time it has felt like that.

I was married when I wasn't quite 14 and had four babies by the time I was 18.

A long time ago, I had an idea to make a book for preschoolers who had older siblings who were going to school.

At this time I would like to encourage everyone to reach out to the ones you love. Let them have no doubt of what they mean to you.