Quotes About Family

My sketchbook is not sacrosanct, and my children would draw on one page while I drew on the other. It was something we shared.

Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.

I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.

We don't give importance to Page 3 or to appear at all the events. Our focus is on our kids and our home.

My father would read me Page Six instead of, like, kids' stories.

My family took me to church when I was like 4 years old, and I had to be in a pageant, and I was playing Jesus.

I do get approached every day by people who say, 'Why don't you make more movies?' I don't really miss it when I get to go and watch my daughter in the Christmas pageant.

I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long.

We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.

My father paid for my education; then he made it clear that I was on my own.

The more anxious, isolated and time-deprived we are, the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services, we work longer hours. This leaves less time to spend with family, friends and neighbors; we become less likely to call on them for help, and they on us.

ABC would love to do groundbreaking shows and there are moments for that, but they're also trying to entertain millions and millions of people and paid advertisers and keep my family happy.

We know the pain the president has caused our society and his family and his friends, but we know, too, how much the president has done for this country.

I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.

My parents' divorce was very difficult. Divorce is essentially incredibly painful, but it's also an essential part of life.

Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.

No matter how painful something is, you have to take it. I saw that in both my parents.

I thought that would go without saying, that if a mother gives up her children, it's very painful.

I had gone to a talent show - I was interested in American hip-hop music - with my older brother, to another town, and my town was attacked. I went from having an entire family to the next minute not having anything. It was very painful.

I held my father's hand while he died of cancer, and it's really painful when you do something like that up close and personal. My mother was already gone, and I was very, very close to my father.

My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people - because I was close to something that fell apart.

I am keenly aware that in writing about my mother, I am writing about my aunts' sister, and that in writing about my grandmother, I'm writing about their mother. I know that my honesty about how my view of these people has changed over the years may be painful.

I remember giving birth in Bromley Hospital annexe. It was painful. Zowie was 8 lb. 8 oz. David was there the whole time. It was the first and only time I saw David cry.

The fact of leaving one's country, one's family, one's roots, can be painful. My father had already found his place, but for us, for my mother, it was very difficult to get our bearings.