Quotes About Family

My sons remember me most as a Cardinal. My one son is 26 years old, and I don't think he's ever seen me without a beard. It's not as black as it used to be, but it's still there.

I don't know, maybe my sons will be gay.

I was born in Washington, D.C., on February 19, 1941, the eldest of four sons.

I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.

I don't want to be reincarnated, that's for sure. When you've had rewarding experiences in your life - a loving family, friends - you don't need additional reassurances that you're going to do something with a new cast of characters. I'd just as soon pass.

Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.

I'm really a family girl. My mom's like, 'As soon as you're on your own, we're going to move back to Indiana.' Well, that might be when I'm 26.

I never take my work home with me, because when there is a baby in the bath at home, and you rush back for bath-time, as soon as you get through the door, you know that work is work and home is home.

I got married very young, and children followed soon after.

I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.

My father was a preacher so I wouldn't sing at all when he was around, but as soon as he locked the door, 'La la la.'

I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.

If I could have had my baby sooner, I would have, simply to spend more years with him.

Children are wonderful, but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better off we all will be.

I wish I'd a got married sooner. I wish I'd a had kids sooner. I wish I'd a figured all that out sooner.

I wish I'd started having kids sooner so I could have had a few more.

My parents got divorced when I was really young and I was a very hyperactive kid, so both parents independently would play Enya at the house to calm me down and soothe me as a kid.

Cooking has always sort of been my way to soothe the soul, if you will. I grew up around my great-great-grandmother cooking, and that's eventually where I learned a lot of things. So food has always been used to ease and comfort.

I've been, like, dancing in the living room with the baby, because when it screams and stuff, it soothes him.

My mother had a beautiful, soothing voice that made me melt.

I've got two very sophisticated daughters who'd rather die than see their dad in a technicoloured knitted jacket.

My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers.

Kids today are technologically sophisticated. In many families, they are far ahead of their parents.

My children have absolutely no interest in my fame. They're very sophisticated, and they have a spiritual perspective on material things because we go to church.