Quotes About Family

Christmas is a time for slipping into familiar patterns.

I crave my mom's Sloppy Joes.

Nothing beats that sloppy kiss of a six-month-old grandchild.

I was on a cruise with my grandma when I was a kid. I remember winning $10 on the slot machine.

I started when I was six years old. My first coach was my granny, she was the best player in Slovakia.

I'm Italian; I take my time. We're not really fast. We're very slow. I had my first child at 40, my second child at 45, James Bond at 50. I'm so curious as to what's next!

My brother is really, really slow.

You can't keep doing the same things when you get married and have a family. You have to slow down. You have to be responsible.

I think when I was about 12 or 13, my dad started taking me out to the local golf course, and that's the first time I ever hit a golf ball. I picked it up pretty quickly, just kind of monkey-see, monkey-do. But when I was 12, golf was so slow to me. For me, it was basketball, girls and music.

What I paint touches on foundational life values. Home, family, peacefulness. And one of the messages I try to constantly get across is, 'Slow it down and enjoy every moment.'

My kids don't slow down, but they like to hang just with us, with mum and dad. They play with us and we play, too.

A woman - even if she is the primary breadwinner - really needs to keep in mind that at some point, she may have a diminished earning capacity because of the fact that she will bear children. Of course, this is case by case. I had two kids, and it didn't really slow me down at all.

My grandfather, Harry Ferguson, was a butcher in Hill of Beath; so even though my grandparents lived in some poverty, we got loads of beef. My grandmother, Meg, was a fine Scottish cook who did slow cooking.

A lot of people say when you have kids, you slow down. I want my kids to see me race.

I have learned that I have to slow down and appreciate that my daughter still needs me, still wants me to help her negotiate everything in her life.

Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.

My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.

My husband, Vivek Deora - he is very meticulous about cooking, and slowly and lovingly makes his family recipes, handed down generations.

My siblings and I kept everything to ourselves, and rather than blowing up in an instant, my family broke apart slowly.

I used to hate performing in front of anybody, but I was forced to sing in front of family, at family gatherings. Then it slowly developed, and I started to love it.

Between the ages of 8 and 12 it was difficult to know what my father was saying, and he moved very slowly, and then he died.

I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.

I used to make my grandparents pay a dollar to watch me sing 'Grease' songs and 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' in their living room. I was always an entertainer, and I would always do all that stuff, but it slowly evolved into a career, which is great, but it wasn't a plan.

Me and my family all like Shanghai, and I'm slowly getting used to the city and the atmosphere.