Quotes About Family

My father's a deacon, my mother's a choir director, so I grew up in the church and singing in the choir, begging my mom if I could have a solo.

Honestly, going solo is the second best thing that's ever happened to me after my kids.

I have many friends who had kids solo, who adopted, who used surrogates - no one was judging them - it's a new world!

I know when I'm at full capacity, and two children is full capacity for me. If I had three or four, especially as a solo parent, it's a guarantee that I would inadvertently forget to sign at least one of them up for school, or send them off with no transcripts or emergency contacts.

My parents were so far from the music world that they couldn't conceive how you could make a living. But for me, it was the only solution for the rest of my life.

Ideally, informal social controls, above all the family, preserve public order. But when the family disintegrates, the police are the second-best solution for protecting the law-abiding.

My decision to look seriously at elected office is grounded in a deep commitment to public service and my experience - both my own and that of my family - in finding just, practical, and bipartisan solutions to difficult challenges.

No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.

You know, I'm a father. I'm a brother. I'm a son. And I'm a grandfather. So many times I have to be the intermediary, the person to referee and help solve disputes and to protect and to guide.

I've organized everything for my family since I was little. I know how to delegate and budget. I solve people's problems.

The imperfections in my family made me learn to deal with things on my own and solve problems for myself.

My grandmother was a single mother. My mother's a single mother, and I have four daughters. I've experienced firsthand the challenges of what it is to be a single mother. And many of those challenges are challenges that, if we all just got together and worked together and thought about it together, we could help solve.

Is it fair to have a bunch of kids help solve your emotional issues? Of course not.

Your children should know that you're always there for them, and that they can call on you when needed. But give them the opportunity to learn to solve their own problems.

Once Ray was a Ewing, all the problems were solved.

Many of the problems that families face can be solved with great technology, design, and distribution.

In the future, when I come home, most of the things that I need to worry about are solved so I can spend time with my family.

It's so funny because as a parent you kind of just fall into your roles. Nate loves to change a diaper more than anybody should because he knows he's instantly solved something. I'm the one that's up all night and in the morning because I need barely any sleep.

If there's an addiction in the Clinton family, it's to problem solving.

I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English.

My stepmom's from Somalia, my baby sister is African American, my dad was always English, I'm a white man... You may have noticed.

We're divorced from my father because he did some mean and scary things to us.

Judy Garland's father was gay. That seems to be the consensus. They left Minnesota and went to California because he got caught with some boy backstage.

Some men don't want to be responsible fathers. It's easier to say 'Let's just turn the kids over to the state.' Women end up bearing the entire load, raising kids alone without a husband to share the parenting.