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Quotes About Family

I was lucky enough to have a mother who took me to the library - the public library - twice a week, Wednesdays and Saturdays. And also bought me books. And also read aloud to me.
~ Kate DiCamillo
I'm not a great meat eater - I eat it twice a week. But I can't stand fish - my mother says it's because I got a fish bone stuck in my throat when I was little.
~ Chris de Burgh
Kashi looks like twigs, so it makes me feel like I'm healthy. This cereal has been with me since childhood. Once a year in my family, we had a junk food day. I could eat Cocoa Crisps and Fruit Loops. Now I'm back eating Kashi. As much as I hate to admit it, my mother has won.
~ Nick Kroll
I remember getting this scrapbook that this girl made, that I actually gave to my mom to hold onto because she has a 'Twilight' shrine in their house in Florida. It was just this scrapbook of me, starting with 'Twilight,' and the whole progression of me and my career throughout that, and other stuff that I had done in between.
~ Ashley Greene
I think in life, people know what they want. They want to survive, they want to have a family. They want to procreate because it's in the genetic law.
~ Gaspar Noe
My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it
~ Gavin DeGraw
Hee that hath a wife and children wants not businesse.
~ George Herbert
And one thing we want during this war on terror is for people to feel like their life's moving on, that they're able to make a living and send their kids to college and put more money on the table.
~ George W. Bush
In the future, I want to have children.
~ Georgia Salpa
I'm insanely girly. I like having the door opened for me. I want to cook dinner for my boyfriend. And I can't wait to have babies.
~ Ginnifer Goodwin
When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.
~ Glenn Beck
My daughter is almost a young lady. She's going to be 10 years old in December and I want to be there day-in and day-out.
~ Gloria Estefan
A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes. If you want to reform a nation you begin with families.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Most people don't want to leave their wife and children behind but many people seem to want to take leave of themselves.
~ Greg Behrendt
You have to overcome negativity and make your dream reality. Even if your family & friends steer you in another directions, do what you want to do. They can't stop you unless you let them.
~ Greg Camp
I can do short jobs. If I was still starring in three movies every year, there's no way that I'd be the person my kids want when they fall down.
~ Gwyneth Paltrow
I don't mind girls or boys. My mother gets upset when I say I want all girls because Apple is so fabulous.
~ Gwyneth Paltrow
I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.
~ Hal Boyle
Traveling makes a vacation lose all appeal. You would never want to take the family to a European city. You travel a lot, but it's a job.
~ Hamilton Leithauser
I think, if you've got children, that's your life. Your 'showbiz' life, if you want to call it that, is a separate thing, and it isn't everything to me.
~ Rob Brydon
Home is where the heart is or where you bury the ones you want to eat later.
~ Rob Thurman
I feel the time is right, I want to spend more time with my young family and concentrate fully on my career [on retiring from international football at age 30
~ Robbie Savage
They're combining that new fertility drug with a birth control pill for people who don't want triplets.
~ Robert Orben
You can't write about a horrible restaurant - if it's a Ma & Pa restaurant no one wants to see you kick Ma & Pa in the chops.
~ Robert Sietsema