Quotes About Family

When you know that someone close to you is going to die, there's a natural tendency to want to spend as much time with them as you can.

Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy

If fathers aren't growing up, I would challenge them to want to be a father that is present in the home, so that their kids have that identity.

Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that's really what The Aristocrats is based on - what will a family do out of desperation.

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didnt want to see my kids do the same thing

It is true that as you have children, there are a good many months when you don't want to be working full-time. I agree that that's an issue.

The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.

Family, to me, is most important, and I can't wait to have one of my own, but I am not going to rush into it. I don't want to get a divorce. I want to take my time, do it once and get it right.

Everybody's in New York and, hopefully, my younger kids will go to college in New York and find something they want to do so they'll stay in the city

The practical reality of managing cars in the family - I do 36-month leases. I think they're horrible investments. And you want to give them back after their warranty is over.

Every kid needs to say, 'I want what my mom and dad have.'

My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.

One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her and taking her by her flour-smeared elbow I said to her, Mama I want to be a painter.

I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that.

My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

My mum gave up so much to have me, and now I want to repay her.

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.

The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and intelligent to want to.

What's done is done. You've got to move on. I don't want to say anything bad about the mother of my children.

My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.

When I went back to Shea last year it really hit me how much the fans care for me, it still gives me goose bumps. I want to do the right thing for them and my family.

I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.

What I really value about being a writer is that I can go to rehearsal when I want to, and then, when I need to be at home writing or with my kids, I go home.