Quotes About Family

I believe in large families: every woman should have at least three husbands.

A daughter is a treasure and a cause of sleeplessness.

Like father, like daughter. I'm not surprised.

The greatest thing a father can do for his daughter is to love her mother.

No man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.

When my father didn't have my hand, he had my back.

Being a daddy's girl is like having permanent armor for the rest of your life.

No one in this world can love a girl more than her father.

A "daddys little girl" is the one who would rather get her hands covered in engine oil with dad, than stay in the house and bake buns with her mother!

"King David was shaken. He went up to the room over the gateway and wept. As he went, he said: 'O my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you – O Absalom: my son, my son!'"

My father was a food lover and a deadbeat dad, and maybe a connection between good food and bad dads was forged early, in the deepest folds of my subconscious, where we make so many decisions about our parents.

I gave my father $100 and said, "Buy yourself something that will make your life easier." So he went out and bought a present for my mother.

I didn't get a lot of attention from my dad when I was young. That's a big part of it for girls. Because your dad is the first love of your life. If he doesn't put you on his lap and give you a pet, you do end up not really liking yourself that much.

My Daddy is my first love. I can't never forget it.

People say that you have to forget your first love to move on. But, I am still in love. "I can't forget my first love. How can I forget my parents."

I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You know, between us, we have only 27 cents, but we have food in the refrigerator, we have our little garden out back, and we're happy, so we are rich.'

I buried my dad on a Thursday and showed up for work on Friday.

The most important thing in life will always be the people in this room. Right here, right now.

"I have a dream too, but it's about singing and dancing and making people happy. It's the kind of dream that gets better the more people you share it with. And I found a whole group of friends who have the same dream, and that makes us sort of like a family."

A true friend cares like a mom, scolds like a dad, teases like a sister, irritates like a brother and loves more than a lover.

The advantage of having only one child is that you always know who did it.

"Success is like dealing with your kid or teaching your wife to drive. Sooner or later you'll end up in the police station."

"It's funny, I spent the first half of my life desperately trying not to become my mother, and now I am spending the second half of my life desperately hoping to become half the woman that she is."

I think I feel most like a princess when I'm sort of bursting with happiness and love, so whether that would be, like, with my boyfriend or my family or at a really fun party – just when you're full of life.