Quotes About Family

If you don't know what your family stands for and what your life situation is, you're in trouble.

'Greenleaf' is nothing like 'Empire.' I think 'Empire' stands alone in what they are doing. It's a wonderful show. The only thing that is similar though is that they are black families - the shows in it of themselves have very different dynamics.

I first met Michael in the early days of the Jackson 5 at the family home in Los Angeles, and the memory that stands out is that Michael, as cute and wide-eyed as an 11-year-old could be, was eager to get through the interview so he could watch cartoons before having to go to bed.

It's always good to have my dad there to support me. I know he's watching every game when he's at home. But when he's in the stands it's a great feeling.

I'm the athletic director around here. The AD. That really stands for 'Andrew's Dad.' That's how everybody knows me nowadays.

Without my church, without my teaching of good morals, I wouldn't be the Jabari that I am today. It's the foundation that my family stands on. If we do things on a consistent basis that are positive, it'll all work out.

I look at my family and what they had to go through sitting in those stands and listen to their child be booed.

I played in JV games on Saturday mornings when my mom was the only person in the stands.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.

I love doing shows. I love rocking shows. I love playing instruments. I love singing. If I can find a way to do that and feed my family, then I'm a happy man.

When you're in a broken family and your role model is a violent male, boys grow up believing that's the way they're supposed to act. And girls think that's an accepted way men will treat them.

You are safe," he said firmly. "You have my name and my family, my clan, and if necessary, the protection of my body as well. The man willna lay hands on ye again, while I live.

I've really actually grown with my girlfriends and the people that they've introduced me to and the way that I've been welcomed in by their families. I'm a very, very lucky man.

A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family.

My old man never liked me. He gave me my allowance in traveler's checks.

The only thing my old man ever gave me was a beating.

This is all for Naieya (daughter), man. I will be a champion one day, I promised that to her.....And now that I have this opportunity I can't let her down.

I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

I think I was around 15 when my Dad was 40 and thought, "Man he's old. There's no way I'll be skating at that age."

Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.

Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife