Quotes About Family

We have very strong roots in Italy and we are committed to deepen these roots even more.

My parents went to Italy a lot, but I didn't go with them. I can't believe that!

My family are happy in Italy. We're first, and I'm top scorer. What more could I ask for?

I love Italy; in Italy, I grew up like a man and like a player. I felt Italy like a family.

My kids go to school in Italy and after my playing career is over I want to spend time with my family.

We lived off the land in Italy.

I'm a first-generation American. My mother is from Argentina. My father is from Italy. When my dad was around five or six, his family migrated to Argentina. That's where he met my mom. They got married, and moved to Los Angeles - North Hollywood, to be exact.

I always knew I was going to do something with music, but with my whole family being in the business, acting was something that was just mine. But when I was 20 or 21, I started writing songs and felt the itch to make a record.

Blue Ivy can say she knows who her great-great-great-great-grandfather is. How many people can say that?

My dad, Jack, had a great sense of humour and had a strong impact on me and my humour.

My kids are deep. My daughter plays music. My son, Black Jack, doesn't forget anything.

Dad never really got over Jack's death and was deeply inspired by his brother throughout his life to delve deeper into his own faith.

I had a fantastic father, Jack Sharp, and I will always carry him in my heart as my father.

Whenever I go back home, I make sure I can attend a Blue Jackets game.

My brother, Jackie, and I used to dance all the time.

I have played father to Jackie Shroff and Rishi Kapoor.

Oh boy, I grew up hearing Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers, Mahalia Jackson, sitting on Mahalia Jackson's lap in my dad's church.

I grew up with music in the house. I was told I could sing as soon as I started talking. Everybody in my family sang, always lots of records, blues and jazz and soul, R&B, you know, like Mahalia Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Coltrane, that kind of thing.

My mom and I used to dance to the Jackson 5 in our living room.

As a child, I didn't see my dad that much because he was always working at the restaurant. He became pretty jaded after working at the restaurant for so long.

Boys need fathers, and you can't do that in jail.

My parents got put into jail, both my mom and my dad.

I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.

My dad spent most of my childhood behind bars. He went to jail 17 or 18 times. It was only when he was diagnosed with cancer in 2004 that we started to have a relationship.