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Quotes About Family

As the father of six children, I want to know that when my wife or I drop our kids off at school they will be safe from predators, crime and violence.
~ Mike Fitzpatrick
There's no way I would want to hurt him or bust him up. That's why, for the sake of the family as well as himself, I will take him out in the opening round.
~ Mike Tyson
I think my mom did everything pretty close to perfect, and I want to be the cool mom that the kids run home to.
~ Miley Cyrus
I love to draw, so I really want to go and study art. I've never done things for me. I've always done things for my career or for my family.
~ Milla Jovovich
I grew up as an only child. I think it might just be that my dad really didn't care that I was a girl. "You're gonna do certain things 'cause I want you to, and that's the way it is."
~ Mitchell Baker
I'm healthy, I have beautiful children and a beautiful life. I don't want to go toward negative stuff because I'm scared.
~ Molly Shannon
I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people.
~ Mother Teresa
What would possess a family where's there's a husband and wife to want 12 kids or 18 kids? That's just what they feel is meaningful to them. Their family. Expanding a family.
~ Nadya Suleman
Whatever may be the position in life of a parent, it is his duty to share his crust with his children. If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Hillary Clinton wants to push for equal pay and for paid family leave and for better and cheaper childcare.
~ Natalie Portman
She didn't have a daddy?" I asked. "No." "Did you have a daddy?" "You're all questions, aren't you? No, love. We never went in for that sort of thing. You only need men if you want to breed more men.
~ Neil Gaiman
Look after each other. As a couple. When you have kids, you'll want to put them first. Don't. Marriage is like a plant. To keep it alive you've got to water it and feed it.
~ Nicholas Evans
People are losing jobs, people need to be entertained, and I want to make movies that parents and children can look forward to seeing, that can become a kind of family ritual.
~ Nicolas Cage
All kids want from their dad is for them to be around - and to show up when they say they're going to show up.
~ Nicole Ari Parker
If you believe, if you value and treasure and revere the institution of marriage, then you should want every family unit to be really wrapped in marriage.
~ Nicolle Wallace
You know, when you have a father who's pretty well known but you don't see him, the last thing you want to do is start talking about him all the time to people.
~ Norah Jones
I never Tweet about my daughter. Never. I just want to be respectful of her privacy. My job as a mom is to know when to open my mouth and when not to.
~ Padma Lakshmi
My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.
~ Panayiotis Zavos
To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
~ Patricia Reilly Giff
I have a feeling of reverence about my father being in his 80s - a feeling that I want to whisper, take soft steps, not intrude too much. He's like a stately old cathedral to me now.
~ Patti Davis
Nobody wants to have in their CV in the upper echelons of the American economic family that they nationalised major banks.
~ Paul Keating
We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.
~ Paul Prudhomme
[My kids] were very young at the time and didn't realize what was going on. We told them that mom made a mistake and people want to talk about it in the news so they're outside our house.
~ Paula Broadwell
When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about.
~ Philip Seymour Hoffman