Quotes About Family

Baghban' happened with me when I was very new. I played a nasty daughter-in-law, to somebody I have idolised all my life: My Amitabh Bachchan.

My dad was a doctor, and he would tell us a lot of nasty, funny stories from the hospital. It was funny to me when I'd go over to other people's houses and they didn't talk about intestines at the table.

You can bring your children and your Grandma to my show. Grandma might have to cover her ears, but it won't be because she'll be hearing anything nasty... just because it'll be loud.

I'm grateful for my daughters, Hilary, Natalie and Claire. Whenever I think of the future, I see their faces. They inspire me.

Loyalty to the family must be merged into loyalty to the community, loyalty to the community into loyalty to the nation, and loyalty to the nation into loyalty to mankind. The citizen of the future must be a citizen of the world.

Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.

We know that if you educate a girl, as the saying goes, you educate a nation. That girl will get married later, she will have fewer children, she's more likely to earn an income, and that income is more likely to be plowed back into the family so that the family benefits.

We always had National Geographic and Astronomy magazines and Popular Mechanics lying around the house. I got interested in exploration and different parts of the world and different parts of the universe just from seeing those things around the house and the different discussions we had as a family.

Increased demands on the members of the Iowa National Guard often means increased time away from home and increased responsibility for those left behind.

Well, Italy is huge for me. I've been going back every summer, not just to see my family, but play with the Italian National Team. So, Italy plays a huge role in my life. It will always play a huge role in my life.

I enjoyed playing for the national team, the French national team, because I think France gave me a lot and gave my family a lot, so to wear the French national team shirt was really good, and I wore it with pride.

The national team was like a second family for me. I will always carry those 13 years of my life in my heart.

Both of my parents were judo fighters from the national team. So I've always been around fighters my whole childhood.

Since June of 1981, between school and the national team, I haven't had much time to spend with myself or my family.

And my father, after all, was a nationalist.

In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.

As you may know, I'm a native Texan. In fact I'm a fifth generation Texan.

My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family.

Through the years, I found we had Native American blood in us. My great-grandmother came from the island of Martinique, and they hooked up with the Native Americans of Louisiana.

Having a baby had always seemed the easiest and most natural thing to do, and I had never felt - even in my most furtive days of coming out - that being gay would mean I could not become a mother.

We're facing a natural disaster in the middle of an economic disaster. The federal government has to balance its budget the way our families do.

I'll start with one healthy kid, but I'd like to have a few naturally and adopt.

I had both my children at home. It came naturally to me.

I don't know if there is a gene for comedy, but my dad was a very funny man. He just didn't know it. He was a naturally funny character, and when my brother and I would laugh at things he said and did, he would say, 'What do you think is so funny?'