Quotes About Family

My family is all musicians - my dad plays drums, my mom plays flute, my older brother plays drums, my little brother plays drums and piano. For some reason, I didn't get the memo, so I just play bass.

My father was in the Army. My older brother was in the Army. Those men and women go out there and put their life on the line. I respect that.

Older men in my family - back to my grandpa - were basically completely bald.

Millions of Americans, older people, are on the Internet, watching pictures of their kids because they all moved to cities.

I tend to write about more than one generation because as a child I had contact with more than one generation; it was normal to be around older people.

In my case, both my grandmothers made a huge impact on my early childhood days. But, as I grew older, people rarely made an impact or influenced me.

I made my older sister cry playing Monopoly once.

My parents divorced when I was eight; I never really knew my dad, and my mom raised my older sister and brother and me alone. It was challenging.

I come from quite a heavy matriarchal family, and my older sister was a huge influence on me.

I've always liked women more. I was brought up by my mother and older sister. I found my way into dance class.

I was in my first play when I was 6. My older sister was in a high-school production of 'The King and I.' They needed children for a scene, so she brought me in. I had a costume and a couple of serious lines that got a laugh. I loved the feeling.

I grew up with all my cousins. The men worked, and the older women raised us - my mother, my aunt, my grandmother. My great-grandmother was the matriarch, and sometimes there were 30 of us.

I grew up with 2 older brothers, the oldest of which was big into film. Hanging around him got me seeing so much good stuff at an early age. Maybe a 10-year-old should not be watching 'Boyz N the Hood' like 10 times in a row? I don't know. But it probably shaped me in some way.

I was born with the genetic condition called 'achondroplasia,' which I inherited from my dad: my mam is average height, and my dad is also a little person. I am the oldest of five children, and I am the only one who is a little person.

I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge.

I was the oldest of five children, each about a year apart, and my mother, bless her heart, had her hands full.

I'm the oldest of six children and I had my own first baby when I was 23. So I've always been interested in babies, and I had lots of opportunities to watch them.

I was the oldest of seven kids, so I had no older brother who would say, 'Schmuck, don't do that.'

The nice thing about 'Miranda' especially is that the audience that we had was school kids right through to pensioners. It seems to be a show that people watch as a family, so it was the first job I've been involved in that certainly my oldest daughter and my middle daughter are big fans of, and proud that I'm in it, which is a nice feeling.

I am the oldest of three. I was in charge of making sure my brother and sister were OK and also entertained so they didn't bother my mother, who had a job at home.

I am the oldest of three girls and the only one not named after one of my father's ex-girlfriends.

Our family is mixed. My oldest sister married a black man in 1962, which was way out there then.

My mother was the oldest of nine children, five boys and four girls, so she had experience sharing responsibility for a large, sometimes loud group of kids.

I blame my grandfather 100 percent for his oldest son's death. I don't think there's any ambiguity there.