Quotes About Family

My dad was into jazz, so there was a lot of Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington playing in the house, but also a lot of soul, such as Aretha Franklin and Ella Fitzgerald, while my mum liked Prince and Diana Ross.

You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy.

I read somewhere that your voice towards your children becomes their inner monologue. That was so interesting to me, and I think that pertains to 'Better Things' as well.

I think that when you talk to people about Monopoly, they love talking about their memories associated with it. And for me, I'm the same way. I mean, when I think about Monopoly, I think of my family playing at the holidays.

When I was 12 years old I discovered Bill Monroe and my dad got me a mandolin.

My favorite book is 'Go Away Big Green Monster.' I wrote it for my granddaughter Adrian, who was in the third grade at the time.

Do we root for Michael Corleone in the 'Godfather' films? I think so, even if he is a monster.

You can't go around telling people what a monster your mother was on a day to day basis. It's unseemly.

Sarabhai' is a monster that continues to grow and win millions of hearts.

When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.

I love the idea of making movies that kids and adults can go to together and both get something out of it, and not just, 'Oh, I've got to take my kid to the movie because they want to see the next, you know, 'Hannah Montana' movie or whatever.'

My father-in-law lives in Montana, and we would come here every summer.

Since coming to Congress in 1971, I have been fighting to help create an environment where the goals of the National Work and the Family Month can become a reality.

Shabbat dinner is something that we do once a month.

About once a month or so, my daughter and I go out on what we call a Fancy Dinner Date, just the two of us.

My daughter finished high school the same month I got my master's degree. I'm glad I didn't know when I gave birth to her at 21 what it would cost in terms of time, money and sacrifice to bring her to that graduation day.

I see my boys about 10 days every month. And, yes, they are the most important people in my life.

I have a house here in California and come back every month and a half to see my kids. And they come to New York.

I grew up in Flagstaff, and I still own my old family house up there, so I go up there a couple of times a month just to sit for a day or two and work without any kind of interruption, and I usually take a dinner break, and I'll watch two hours of DVD.

Each month from our income - we have a separate account, obviously - we give 80 percent of it to our parents back home.

I remember my dad ringing me up and giving me my GCSE results when I was at Thorp Arch for pre-season training. A month later, I was playing in the first team. It was pretty amazing, really. I think if you stopped and thought about it at the time, it would have hit you.

I wanted long hair my whole life. When I was a little kid, my mom would be like, 'We get our hair cut once a month.' So I just always got my hair cut.

I am very happy with my life, but seven or eight months a year, I am away from home. I want to go home - that's the truth.

After the war, my father, Bernard, left the Army Air Forces to fly for Trans World Airlines. But after I was born, he retired from commercial flying to be with my mother, Anne, and me. I was born in Kansas City, Mo., but we left when I was 6 months old.