Quotes About Family

All I ever wanted out of my life was to buy my mother a house. By 1995, I have achieved all I wanted materially in life.

The only thing that gives my mom pleasure in life is buying stuff off QVC, and I'm gonna pay those bills. I paid my mom's house off. My wife's family needs help? I'm gonna take care of that.

I'm very smart with my paper! I stopped buying things for myself a long time ago - now I just buy things for my kids or my wife.

By the time I'm wrinkly and old, I'll have kids and grandkids that I'm watching grow up. I'll be proud of what I've achieved in my life, and I'm not going to worry about my looks so much.

I have little children, 5 1/2 and 1 1/2, and I thought I should document my life, because by the time they're in the mid-20s, they'll be able to say, 'This is what he did.'

I didn't actually get along with my dad when I was growing up, so by the time I was in my 20s, I didn't think I was going to be a writer.

My dad had already retired by the time I was born.

By the time I was seven, my mother and I had moved 13 times.

My two things I always said is, No. 1, I'd be retired by the time I had my first kid, and No. 2, I'd be retired by the time I was 30.

I'm lucky that I was born to these parents. I'm lucky that my dad wanted to be around me, that he took me to all these National League cities by the time I was 12.

I always want to make enough for my kids. So if they want to go to university, I can pay for them to go. Maybe buy their first car, buy their first house for them so they can go out and work and not know the struggle I went through. That is my mission. If I can do that by the time I have retired, then I have accomplished everything I wanted to.

Until I got married, when I used to go out, my mother said good bye to me as though I was emigrating.

When the kids were growing up, we didn't have a television in the house connected to a cable or an antenna. If something bad happened in the world, I wanted the kids to hear about it from me.

I have a lot of energy. Energy's a very huge thing in our family. None of us need caffeine; we're just high-energy people.

My mom bakes amazing cakes.

The assumption that people sometimes make is that I have made a cold, calculated decision to put my career ahead of having family, and that's not true.

I don't mean to sound like a touchy-feely California type here, but I knew that I could finally get over the death of my father only by having kids of my own.

I know that my heart and my family are here in California, not in Washington, D.C.

I would feel like such a behind if I went to California and made my family move, and they couldn't find their dreams there, too.

My calling was to be a mom.

I stopped taking calls when I'm with my kids. It's either work time or family time.

My three children keep me calm.

I've had to calm down, I have a kid! It is amazing. It's the best thing ever. Nothing better than it.

I think having a child makes you calm down. You sit still.