Quotes About Family

I came out to my parents when I was a junior in college. And it was pretty fine. They were more concerned with why I wasn't dating anyone. But now I'm 36, and I still don't date anyone.

I'm talking like 10, 12 years old. Either junior brings Mom and Pop or Mom and Pop bring the kids. I'm talking young here, not a college drinking crowd.

I was a hotshot as a junior. When I was 18, I really got into fiddling around. I completely lost interest in golf, and I guess all I could think about was going to college, getting married and having babies.

My father was a genius footballer, a natural, two-footed centre-forward who had played for Arsenal juniors, but he was sent out to work aged 14 and so lived out his life in a frustrated, rageful way.

I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.

We are not blessed with junk food - my family and my kids do not eat fast foods.

My house always had all the junk food.

Maybe I'll just be a good aunt.

Just be a cool grandpa who's creative, and hang out and tell stories and read a book in the library.

When I decide to become a mother I will just be that. That will be really important to me.

All of the most important lessons about writing I learned from my father. He never set out to teach me anything, it would just be something he said casually in conversation.

You can't have Thanksgiving and not just be like, 'All right, where's the football.' It's been branded very, very well. You can't have one without the other at this point.

I love being a mom. It's my favorite thing. If I had to give up everything and just be a mom, I would.

I felt this pressure to just be the singer in my family or the musician in my family. But once I had my son, I was like, 'No, I can do all of it.'

I learned early on that just because you come from the same blood as someone doesn't mean they are family.

I don't really say too much to my parents. If they ask me to do something I just do it and get it out of the way.

Both my parents have been big influences on me wanting to do music. My mum's always been, 'Just do it. Just sing.'

That's the whole reason I got into acting: I don't do this like some grown-ups have to do it, because they have families, and they have to make money. It's not my job. My dad works to support our family. So I just do it for fun.

You have those times where you bump heads with your parents because they want you to do this, or you want to do that, or whatever it is, and that's just kind of life. She was just always like that safe place, and obviously she was the matriarch of the family, my mom's best friend.

My goal has always been to just kind of show how my family, we might be a different culture, but we're completely like everybody else.

Growing up, I cooked in the house, and when I cooked, everyone would sit down and eat, and it was just kind of the way I connected with my family.

Being from South Louisiana, we're just kind of rootsy.

I grew up all over the South. My dad just kind of followed construction.

Everyone in our family just kind of leans on my mum.