Quotes About Family

Santa Barbara is my hood. I mean, it's not much of a hood, but it is definitely like my hood. I claim Santa Barbara like I claim my family. I'm going to be married and buried there.

When I was a kid, my aunt snuck us into see 'Boyz n the Hood.'

I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the '80s really changed when the '90s hit. For me to chase that dream or career of music, I started a family, started on 'Melrose Place,' so it was something I didn't have the time or energy.

I will definitely hook up my daughter if she decides to be a model.

My family and I are hooked on 'The Searchers.' I can't get enough of it.

I've always been a foodie. My grandmother got me hooked on cooking.

'Badalte Rishton ki Daastan' has enough masala to keep the audiences hooked from day one. It is a proper family drama.

I would walk around in all these cities we lived in because my dad would move around so much. I would just walk the streets with a ball in my hand, and my mom holding my other handing waiting to find a hoop to play in. That was my first love of basketball.

My grandma used to have a backyard and we put a hoop, a shaky hoop, up there. We used to just shoot at it. We shot at it so many times, we broke it. We had to get a better one, because that one wasn't good at all.

It's not about being super famous. My first goal was to do what I'm passionate about - dance, hip hop, and R&B - but I also wanted to support my family and friends and create opportunities for me and people I believe in. It makes everything I do meaningful.

I always had the dream that, once I became No 1 in the world, that if I had a child I hoped I would have it early enough so the child can see me playing.

My parents prepared me for the worst, hoped for the best.

Since he was born, Mandy and I have hoped to give Blaine a brother or sister.

I just hope that I will be as good a mom to my child, and hopefully children, as my mom was to me.

We've accumulated a lot of things over the years and many things from our grandmother. Hopefully it'll be all right. I really don't want to cry, but I can't help it.

For right now, it really is the end. Hopefully in 10 years we'll all be married and have babies.

Leadership is possible in all different ways, and in all different areas of life. Whether it is with friends or family, I expect them to set a great example for me, and hopefully I will do the same for them. And that is all part of being a leader.

I'm a truly loved kid, and hopefully it will make me a happier adult.

I see myself being a father, hopefully a husband, but I'm very gun-shy. The older I get, the further the goalpost.

I have such a great relationship with my mom that I'm so excited to, hopefully, have that same relationship with my daughter.

I am a hopeless mamma's boy.

I have high hopes for my kids, and I'll defend them to the death.

My constant advice to my family - 'hopes high, expectations low' - is based on the idea that we can try our best to be perfect, but sometimes good enough has to be good enough.

I have three grandchildren and am hoping for 20.