Quotes About Family

My family is from the south of Italy in this little place called Calabria. It's a big part of my family, the Italian culture. I grew up around it. My parents speak Italian, and I speak Italian.

I come from a middle-class South Indian family, and we speak Tulu at home. I never led a lavish life, and I have my feet on the ground.

Most of my family doesn't speak English. It's so important for the baby. He's going to know all his American roots, but he also needs to know about his Brazilian side.

My grandfather died before I was born, so I never had the chance to speak with him about his father. But I learned about him from books.

My grandmother is bilingual, but she preferred to speak Spanish at home, so she would speak to us in Spanish, and everyone responded in English, sort of like what happens on 'Jane.'

My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around my friends, it was 'Yo' and 'That's the joint' and 'Yo, what's up?' So I had my game for my friends and my game for my mom.

I can't speak for others, but I miss my father.

I was born in Brooklyn and raised in Pittsburgh. I've never been to Iran, I don't speak the language, and, probably most important of all, my Iranian father left home when I was nine months old. That's the extent of my connection to Iran.

My father is my true inspiration. He's a motivational speaker, so he does a fine job of guiding me.

If I go away, I take a little picture of my son. It's in a frame with a speaker, and he recorded a birthday message for me when he was nine or 10. I can't listen to it without filling up.

There's always been music in my house growing up. In the kitchen, there's a speaker, and we'd always have my mum's iPod in it - she never makes food without listening to music. And I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' with my dad.

Before I became a parent, I was a bestselling author and speaker pounding up the escalators of a different airport every week.

I had grandparents who were native Irish speakers, and also, two of the four grandparents were illiterate.

When my dad went to college to get his master's from Loyola, he was playing Debussy and Chopin and Beethoven. But he played all that New Orleans stuff, too. I would go with my dad to gigs, pick up the piano and the speakers, and I would be like his roadie.

The long history of conversations that family members share contributes not only to how listeners interpret words but also to how speakers choose them.

Luckily, my father and my mother liked us to talk, so they encouraged us to talk, so that the girls in my house, they're all very powerful speakers and powerful agents of their own will, as is my brother.

My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate.

Neither of my parents would ever stand in the way of any of their children speaking their minds.

My life often feels like a whirling dervish of kids, writing, speaking, and pastoral ministry.

Usually, family films have characters speaking with each other with much dignity and respect.

Speaking as the child of divorce, I have to say that one of the most disconcerting findings in 'The Longevity Project' focused on divorce: On average, grown children of divorced parents died almost five years earlier than children from intact families.

When I was a kid, I resented my grandparents not speaking the perfect English I wanted to speak.

It's quite funny because I always talk to baby through Susie's belly, and every time I start speaking, I just get kicked in the face.

Yes, I'm half Italian. So my grandfather speaks heavy Italian... and I couldn't understand a word he said.