Quotes About Family

When I started saxophone, my dad took me to my uncle's church, and I started playing there, too. At its best, music serves a greater purpose, and that showed me a whole other side to spiritual jazz, one which you can hear in the music - the gospel and blues feel, the soul that's embedded into the more avant-garde records.

My uncle was a photographer for 'The Irish Times.'

Back home, I find small towns very peaceful. When my father and uncle were still in the film business, we had a tradition of travelling to the temple town of Srisailam to screen every film before its release. I still go there often.

We're always aware of our family being creative, but it wasn't like, 'My uncle is an amazing actor; I want to be like that.'

When I was kid, my uncle had a grocery store. I remember the smell of the sawdust on the floor.

My father has his master's degree. My uncle does as well.

My paternal uncle and aunt have jobs, and they are the ones who feed the family with a regular income.

I don't leave things like recovery to chance! I have learned from the best, after all - my father and uncle!

My grandparents were from Kentucky - I'm related to Daniel Boone. He was my great-great-great uncle.

My great uncle, my mom's uncle, had an appliance store in Philadelphia, and it was called Peter's TV. They sold stereos and televisions and washers, dryers, all kinds of stuff.

For me, I didn't really have family that was in entertainment. I didn't really grow up with an uncle that's a TV writer or something, so I didn't even know that it was possible at all. I slowly learned more about it and ended up here. I want people to not be discouraged by the fact that they don't have a legacy in Hollywood that's bringing them in.

When I was little I got to dribble the ball around while my older brother Paul, who played for a long time for Kilmarnock, my dad and my uncle Jimmy - who was at Celtic as a kid and played with Morton and Cambridge City - kicked it hard and I got punted out the way. But gradually I got allowed into the game.

In fact, my uncle did his first full play at the Westin Playhouse because my dad put in a good word for him to the producer.

George Harrison became my uncle - not by blood but through love. It's sort of an Indian cultural thing.

I grew up with very strong family support. My grandparents raised me, and my uncle sort of played that father-figure role in my life.

I'm trying to be the best uncle I can be.

Mauricio had a relationship with my granddad and especially my dad, because they played against each other with Instituto and Newell's Old Boys, and my uncle went to school with him when they were children.

When I was in senior year of high school, my mom lost her job, we lost our house, and we had to move in with my uncle and my aunt.

First of all, with due respect to my dad, he wasn't an ace composer. He never got the success that my uncle did.

I had grown up with music influence of my grandad, uncle, dad. So, professionally I first assisted others to do something different, to get an edge.

When I was a kid I had a ball in San Francisco because my Uncle Lou was a gripman on the California cable car line.

I was right in the middle of a story and leading to a punch line and then I just heard 'John John' and I just looked around. I could see someone in the shadows walking forward and he said 'John I can't find me seat lad, d'ya know where me seat is?' I looked at him and it was my uncle Dave.

When I was 15 I went to live with my aunt and uncle instead of my mum, for money reasons. It was a huge shock to my system, suddenly living with six people rather than one. Hopefully it changed me for the better.

From my father, I got more of the artistic, the human, the sweet part. From my uncle I really learned the business and the market. It's a good combination, no?