Quotes About Family

I think that 'Heroes' really is about family. I mean, sure, it's this surreal story, and it's about people with powers, but the story behind that story is a story of family.

There's a book called 'The Shack' - it had a lot to do with me coming full circle, meeting my birth mother. Awhile back, my birth mom and my adopted mom came to my show together, and it was pretty surreal.

Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them.

Before my first child was born, I had nothing going on professionally really, and it's been a very blessed period of creativity for me since he arrived. It's very surreal. It's almost as if the babies are out there pulling strings somewhere, deciding what kind of life they want to be born into.

Skiing not only for yourself and your family, but for your country, was surreal. The amount of support I got from back home in Indiana was insane.

I love playing at Surrender because they let me be free and be myself... it's family, you know?

My wife and I had been trying a while to have a baby. We tried a bunch of things - so we had a surrogate.

I have a lot of surrogate parents, but there's no one like your mother.

We love and adore our surrogate, we speak to her and her family constantly, I'm sure our son will speak to her for the rest of his life as well.

I used to love watching that programme '19 Kids And Counting' and I thought I might just keep going and have 19 kids myself. I had these big plans to home-school them all and I even wanted to be a surrogate as well.

The family and friends and the people I surround myself allow me to keep my feet firmly on the floor and not get too big-headed.

You can always tell a person's real character and personhood by those who closely surround him, especially if they're family.

I think there are a lot of circumstances that surround the Clinton family that aren't explainable, and I will let people go on and research it for themselves. And if they think there is something fishy going on, leave it to them.

She serves me a piece of it a few minutes out of the oven. A little steam rises from the slits on top. Sugar and spice - cinnamon - burned into the crust. But she's wearing these dark glasses in the kitchen at ten o'clock in the morning - everything nice - as she watches me break off a piece, bring it to my mouth, and blow on it. My daughter's kitchen, in winter. I fork the pie in and tell myself to stay out of it. She says she loves him. No way could it be worse.

You're a beautiful drunk, daughter. But you're a drunk.

Then i don't know I remembered how he was when he was nineteen, the way he looked, running across this field to where his dad sat on a tractor, hand over his eyes, watching Wes run toward him - Chef's House

I'm beginning to get it," I said slowly. "Take a family like yours and somebody in it has to be the dark meat.

Bountiful was the table of your grandsire, for there is still fat at the root of my heart from the feasts he gave in my honour.

Gamina may not have been the daughter of my body, but she was the daughter of my heart, and I love all her children and grandchildren none the less for this.

Caleb had understood that for mothers, sons never truly grow up.

But a father is more than a person, he's in fact a society, the thing you grow up into.

When you go out first on your own. When you marry and settle. When your father dies. When your son leaves home.

Family traditions that hinder your ability to love, understand, and succeed are false—they

We also need to be willing to confront the emotions that may exist as a result of everything that's been passed down to us.