Quotes About Family

Honestly, right now, I don't want to be around baseball. Not that I don't like it. But I'm having fun right here, hanging around my family and watching my kids' games.

Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.

I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.

There are things in our blood that are just naturally passed down to us, whether we want to recognize them or not.

I come from a family of professional dog-showers, one step above carnies, but I didn't want to join the family business.

I really believe in the last name Hoffa being something powerful. You want to live your life to bring honor to that name.

When you have lost people like I lost my birth mom at a young age and you remember the whole process of losing her, you want to grab on to something that makes you whole.

I recognize the amount of time that it takes as a director. I made the choice to stop taking roles outside of L.A. because I didn't want to miss any of my child's life.

The thing that is my main focus is my family. More than anything, I want to be a good husband to my wife and a good father to my kids.

It's human nature - we want to believe our children, our families, our President!

When I was growing up, there was always somebody who wanted to pick a fight with me. I'd say, I'm not a famous boxer, my father is. If you want to fight somebody, go fight my Dad.

When you're growing up you need your parents, but you don't want to be associated with them because you're trying to have your own life.

Peace and war begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in our own families. If we want to spread joy, we need for every family to have joy.

The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, thats 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.

There are few things that's forever, my lady. We can make war or make babies.

It's time for fathers to war for their kids more than the culture wars for your kids.

So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.

We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war.

I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.

To be a mother is a great treasure. Mothers, in their unconditional and sacrificial love for their children, are the antidote to individualism; they are the greatest enemies against war.

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.