Quotes About Family

You make a choice whether or not to turn that TV on. We didn't even have a television in the house.

I've made choices that work with my family. I want to work and I want to be with my family so I just walk the tight-rope of showing up for both those things.

Nobody's perfect, but I hold myself accountable. I think about the choices I make because they not only affect me, they affect all of my fans and my family.

My mom sang in high school choir and so did my father.

I used to sing in a choir when I was young. My mom forced me hardbody. I was hella young, like 5 years old.

I'm so lucky that the brother I would choose is the brother I actually got.

My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three.

I used to do semi-classical dance as a child; I did not have a choreographer, but my mother gave me a cassette to learn from.

I tell my kids all the time that I'm so lucky they chose me to be their mom.

I don't think it's an accident who our parents are; I believe we choose them. So maybe I chose my parents in order to effect change.

I chose to be retired. I chose to start a family. That was one of the biggest reasons I got away from the game of baseball. I wanted to start a family. I was happy.

When I chose to leave a career as a young lawyer in Washington to move to Arkansas to marry Bill and start a family, my friends asked, 'Are you out of your mind?'

I chose to stay close with my family and my parents and my brother.

My dad never wanted to push what he did on us. It was more, for him, if you chose to do this, then we're going to do it, and we're going to get it right. It was, 'I know how to do it. I'm going to teach you how to do it because I want you to be good at it.'

The Bucks and John Hammond chose me in the draft, got me in the NBA, kept me in the team with a role from my very first season, and they are my basketball family.

I chose Schalke for a couple of reasons. I wanted to go back home, to be close to my little boy, and it's a great club.

Because I had the children, I chose to have my studio in my home. I wanted them to understand my work and learn how to work.

When one is a child, one has little say in the matter: one's parents decide. Mine chose Cotchford, and they chose the various schools I was sent to as I grew up.

We chose to be a family, not a band.

It's hard for anyone to say that they chose to put their parent in a home rather than give up a large part of their own life to care for them, and thinking about the years leading up to my father's death still punishes me.

Chris didn't only leave a legacy of work. He left a legacy of love.

My parents were Christian.

I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home.

My parents weren't massively religious when I was growing up, my granddad was and I got a lot of my Christianity from him.