Quotes About Family

If a male primate is mean to a female primate, her whole family will come after him. We don't have that sort of accountability in industrial societies.

Everyone has to have a sense of duty. A duty to society, to their family. I mean, you name it.

History and socio-economic inequality and all those things had, like, borne down upon my family and my community and really sort of narrowed our choices.

I grew up in a literary home and majored in French, English, and sociology. They all have served me well over the years.

As an adult and a parent, when I'm not acting, I'm not acting. I'm being a parent, and I'm on the school run, and I'm sewing labels onto socks. That's what I'm doing.

The coolest Christmas present I've ever received is probably socks. My grandma always gets me socks - every year - and that's something that I've probably never bought for myself. If Christmas wasn't around and my grandma didn't get me socks, I wouldn't own any, probably.

Me and my brother lived in kind of a shed behind our house, and it was cold. We really lived kind of a dirty existence. It was tough to move away from my father and grandfather in California. I wore socks that were so dirty they were hard and black, and I would go into the lost and found box at school and look for clothes.

Even though I was sent to private school, it was purely because mum and dad wanted the best for me, and they worked their socks off in order to be able to give me that.

Work... family - I'm doing it all. But here's the secret I share with so many other nanny- and housekeeper-less mothers I see working the same balance: my house is trashed. It is strewn with socks and tutus.

After I sign my big contract, I'm gonna make my brothers buy me dinner. They need to buy me something for a change. I think I'm gonna get me a house. That's gonna be first. Probably get some new socks. Need some socks.

For my last meal, I'd want an Irish breakfast with soda bread and one of my dad's omelettes with three or four eggs.

I make a mean Irish soda bread every Christmas and give it out to friends and family.

My mom insisted on multigrain bread and never allowed soda in the house.

We come from a very humble background. A lot of my paycheck from 'Skins' went to paying the bills and getting us a new sofa.

'Doctor Who' began as family television: a show that kids and their parents and grandparents can all watch, maybe even together, on the sofa.

When people hear I have six kids and 16 grandkids, they think, 'Oh, boy, you must get a lot of stories from them.' I don't. It's not like I'm behind the sofa in the living room taking notes while the grandkids carry on.

I didn't want to be the aunt where you come over and can't sit on the sofa.

People have their special room for Christmas. One year my mum left her present on the arm of the sofa and it was still there the following Christmas!

When I am shooting a film, then everything goes soft focus. My family also complains that I don't give them time.

I had a very hard father. I had two sisters. He was soft on them and hard on me.

My mother made the best scrambled eggs, super-loose and soft.

My daughter has changed me. She has made me grow up quicker because I don't just have a kid, I have a baby girl. She has made me more patient. I am actually soft when I get around her. I don't think she changed me as a fighter, but she has changed me as a person. She has helped me mature.

I think I definitely get my soft side from my mother.

My family is the largest single contributor of soft money to the national Republican Party.