Quotes About Family

Like so many families, we were dealing with limited means. We weren't poor at all, but we had some challenging times financially. When my stepdad got laid off... we were really trying to find our footing for a couple of years.

My brother and my father both got laid off around the same that I was starting to do this movie 'Chavez.' And at the same time, it was when all the bailouts were happening.

The moment our daughter was lifted up and we laid eyes on her was incredible.

My parents, or Asian parents in general, they're like, 'You should be a doctor, a lawyer, or a banker' - all that's laid out. As a kid that's what I bought into, which is why I ended up going the corporate route initially.

I'm very laid back, easy. There's nothing better in life than seeing your kids do well.

My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.

I used to do a lot of fishing with my dad, usually in Beckton Boating Lake.

I feel like Salt Lake is a home for me now and it's become a home for my family.

My family and I go every year to Lake Tahoe for Fourth of July. It is honestly my favorite place in the world to spend time with my family.

They say that Salt Lake is a great place to raise a family - and I know that sounds like something people just say. But you spend enough time here... and you realize that it's true.

We get three of the Ball boys on the Lakers together, and we gonna go championship, championship, championship, championship, championship.

I think if all three of my boys get on the Lakers somehow, they would change the NBA.

Kobe is part of the Laker family and he always will be. There's not many players who play 18-19 years with the same franchise, and it's important to us that he has a chance to play his entire career with the Lakers.

Anyone who grows up with parents who are very influential, there are cases where people run away from that if they have parents who are really lame.

I'm as lame as all dads are.

When you can impress your mom by saying you've been to someone's concert, you know you're pretty lame.

My father was a farmer, and we have had some farming land in Haryana. Maybe I would have followed his footsteps and become a farmer.

In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.

My dad was in the Army, and we moved, I think, eight times before I was in the seventh grade. We landed in Tallahassee when my dad retired from the Army and started working for the state.

But there comes a landing point, where you finally get to a stage where you have something to hang your hat on. Then your family see that this is definitely happening and you're making a success of it.

I'm never gonna date again, because I can't imagine meeting a woman that's good enough for my daughters.

The only introduction to sports that I had before meeting my husband was Buffalo Bills football and Doug Flutely Flakes. My dad grew up in Buffalo and has been a Bills fan all his life.

I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity.

I remember being very young and going to AA meetings with my father in Brooklyn. I thought it was fun because they served hot chocolate and cookies.