Quotes About Family

In large families, it seems it is hardest to be either the first or the last child. That was certainly true in ours.

My father married once. I married once. This is a conviction of ours. This is the way we grew up.

If you have a large family like ours, you have to fight to get your point across, and I think I learned that from my dad.

I am a God-fearing person. Ours is a religious family and I respect all religious gurus.

All families have lies and secrets, I don't mind sharing ours.

There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves.

MMA is a sport. We go out here and we do battle. Everybody has family, friends, they train really hard.

Being a mother was too important to me to risk running out of time.

I was an outcast growing up with a bunch of Christian people. My father didn't go to church, and that was not good news if you lived right in the middle of it.

I was always an outcast, even in my family.

My wife never comes to watch me fight, she gets too nervous, so do my family. They will only watch it on the television after they know the outcome.

There's a big difference in outcomes between children who grow up without a father and children who grow up with a married set of parents.

My mother was not very good about keeping clothes; if they were outdated, she'd give them to an aunt or cousins or museums.

If you lived next door to me and didn't know what I did, you wouldn't know I was a celebrity. I don't have that lifestyle, nor do I want that lifestyle. I want to know that I can have a separate life with my wife and my kids and just be normal and go camping and fishing and outdoor stuff.

I have shot back-to-back shows with outdoor schedules, and so missed many moments of my babies.

The school holidays were always an exciting time in the Brownlee household. This was the opportunity for my brother Alistair and me to escape from the classroom and enjoy the great outdoors. Our childhood was jam-packed with fun family games and activities.

Few experiences help our kids discover the distinction between needs and wants like the great outdoors.

Besides what I do, I love fishing; I love bringing my children to the forest, getting outdoors in nature. Get outside, people! Stop looking at screens.

We don't own a TV. My kids are always outdoors.

We had a court, and my brothers would play outdoors, with rims barely hanging in there.

But one of the most important and lasting things my father taught me was a love of the outdoors and how to respect it. I have tried to pass that curiosity and respect on to my kids and to others.

I grew up playing in the outfield and junior year of high school I went over to first base and got some tidbits from my dad, but it kind of came naturally to me.

When I left for college, my mom really latched on to the dog; She started buying him little outfits and calling him our brother, but that's as far as it got.

My dad had me in little baseball outfits and bats in the crib.