Quotes About Family

Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.

That's just my family's mentality. We are a very loving, hugging and kissing kind of family. And we grew up in a church atmosphere and still have that atmosphere. There is no negativity.

I'm so tired of reading all the negativity about black fathers running away and no black men as role models in society. I had a great father. Most of the guys I knew had great fathers.

I don't think there's any space for any negativity or insecurity on the set of 'Housefull 4.' It feels like a big, crazy family.

Everything people are saying about her - all that negativity - it's garbage. That's not my mother.

Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.

I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing.

I've got this great home life I want to keep living, and I don't want to neglect it.

Being a busy woman and busy mom, we can tend to neglect ourselves and push our thoughts to the back of our brains to deal with later. By taking care of yourself, you become mentally and physically healthier and show up happier for those around you.

You put too many songs on your record, and it ends up like a family with too many kids: some of them get neglected.

Obviously, Jo and I, as a couple, we just don't want to redline. You know, we don't want to run so hard after some dream or some goal only to find out that we've neglected the thing that means the very most to us, which is our marriage and our relationship.

My parents just neglected me, I wasn't abused or anything.

America, in all its institutions, whether it be the family or government, has forgotten and neglected its children.

I want to work because I am too passionate about what I do. As long as my children and husband don't feel neglected, I do the balancing.

Most of the time, if you ask a kid who's their best friend, it's usually a classmate or their neighbor or something, but for me, it was my granddad. Everybody knew him - they called him Mr. Jones.

I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.

I cannot bring Christ to my neighbor and to the world if I have not first given him to my family.

We weren't rich by any means, but we had each other, so we were rich in family. When you don't have a lot, it just fuels that creativity. So it manifested in us doing characters of people in the neighborhood or doing impersonations of Mom and Dad. The comedy bug, it takes over.

Harlem is a very family-oriented neighborhood, and it always has been.

I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.

In the early '50s, my great-grandmother and grandfather raised a baby gorilla named Bobo who wore clothes and played with the neighborhood kids.

Child care should be convenient, affordable, and available in every neighborhood.

My five-year-old, before the quarantine, joined a chess class in our neighborhood in Brooklyn, and my husband was learning to play so that they could play against each other.

I like coming back home. Do it every July Fourth. Everybody's cooking, and I'm just being Ben, just Ben, like the little kid I was running around the neighborhood.