Quotes About Family

As children, we think our mother has always been a mother, but it is just one of the roles you may have the opportunity to play. They don't define you as a human being.

If, later on, my daughter wants to be in a girl group, then I think I am going to oppose.

Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself.

My mother was an actress in comedies. My father wrote scenarios. They were not opposed to my being an actor. I really didn't know what it meant, but I wanted to be one anyway.

I am opposed to the idea of a child growing up with two gay parents. A child needs a mother and a father. I could not imagine my childhood without my mother. I also believe that it is cruel to take a baby away from its mother.

People want to know how we do it as moms. I want to inspire moms to get back in the kitchen. I want to show moms that not only is it great to have your kids eat healthy foods as opposed to McDonald's, but it's great to bring the family back together.

I wanted to stay on TV because I've got kids who are school-aged, so I get to see them most days as opposed to going away for movies months and months at a time.

You either become like your parents or you become the opposite of your parents. And I like to think that I'm the opposite of my parents.

Even though I grew up in L.A., no one in my family was in the movie industry. I've always felt whatever the opposite of disillusioned is. I guess illusioned with movies and with people in movies and things like that. It's all exciting to me.

I've heard people say I'm a Curry and that helped me get where I am. Sometimes I think it's the opposite.

My family was entirely political, all the time, on the left. The opposite of that is not to be political on the right. It's trying not to be - politics is not everything. There's life other than politics. Politics intrudes.

My mom is, like, my biggest fan of my fight world, which is funny 'cause you'd think it'd be the opposite.

You shouldn't end a band like Westlife and not be financially secure to some extent, but I wasn't at all - it was the complete opposite. But you look at stuff then, 'Well, what do I have? I don't have money but I have a great marriage, three healthy kids, and I have my voice. I'll just start again.'

Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.

Sometimes when you have children they're the opposites of you.

I know my kids best. I know what morals and values are right for my children. I think we should not have an oppressive state telling us what to do.

My kids are really dope. I was just at home in Chicago, and my daughter Brittany was interviewing me. It was like I was on 'Oprah.'

I thank my mum, dad, and home for keeping me in touch with my own country and my own land. I can be in the studio with Snoop Dogg or singing for Oprah, but I'm still me.

I didn't want to go out on dates on Friday and Saturday night, because I wanted to go to the Opry with my dad. I learned a lot being in the heart of the music business and made some of my best friends there.

That's where I fell in love with country music, there at the Opry with Dad by my side.

I instilled in my children the importance of good values in business: hard work, determination, integrity, and optimism.

Having a child at 55... that's optimism.

My kids are resilient, I'm resilient, and I guess I am an optimist.

I see myself as, one, an optimist, and two, a member of a huge family, and that's important to me.