Quotes About Family

My principal motivation is supporting my family, which is not a bad reason for getting up in the morning. That's always been my motivation - to take care of the people who rely on me.

I know what that is, 'he said. 'That's drugs, that is.' 'You're a genius, aren't you?' 'Dad will kill you' 'Then I'll be dead.' Then they were both silent, thinking about the room down the hall that no one was allowed to touch, that no one was allowed to enter, and the brother who you were not alloewd to mention in this house. The brother you could't even fucking mention

Riddle me this - she is my daughter but I am not her father: who am I? I am a step parent. Ah, but I don't really believe in the term step-parent. I don't think the role exists. Not really. For either in the end you are either a child's parent or you are not. And blood does not have a lot do to with it.

There was lots that could be done. But there was also nothing that could be done. My father was dying.

The total isolation of death. The loneliness of the dying man. That is what I had noticed about my father's death. We loved him but, in the end, we left him and he died alone. Because we were tired. Because it was late. Because there was nothing we could do. We loved him and yet he was on his own.

I'm not saying it's what I would have wanted. But don't you see? We fuck up our lives again and again and it's always our children who pick up the bill. We move on to new relationships, always starting over, always thinking we've got another chance to get it right, it's the kids from all these broken marriages who pay the price. They - my son, your daughters, all the millions like them - are carrying around wounds that are going to last a lifetime. It has to stop.

We arrive home in the evenings with little energy left for our families. We spend too little time thinking strategically and long term, too little time taking care of ourselves, and too little time simply enjoying our lives.

When I go home, its an easy way to be grounded. You learn to realize what truly matters.

No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.

When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.

Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

ze heet gewoon Marie ze draagt d'r haar gewoon en steeds als ik haar zie denk ik wat zijt gij schoon ze draagt gewoon een blouse een doodgewone tas ze zingt en praat en lacht gewoon ze doet gewoon de was ze heeft gewoon een huis of eigenlijk meer een flat d'r staan gewoon wat bloemen en er staat gewoon een bed ze heeft gewoon twee kinderen gewoon een hond die blaft ze heeft gewoon een man die liefheeft, eet drinkt en maft hij doet geen wondere zij evenmin en daar zit nou net het bijzondere in

In rich democracies, the same factors that confer household bargaining power on women also have a positive effect on fertility. We interpret this to mean that women would like to "have it all" as long as having children does not block their possibilities of accumulating human capital in the labor market. Trying to boost fertility with a campaign of pro-family rhetoric and incentives is likely to have precisely the opposite effect as intended.

Kuulin radiosta, äiti sanoi, että hän ei koskaan elänyt yhdessä miesten kanssa. Pelkästään naisten. Niin, sanoin minä. Niin se kai oli. Onko sillä väliä? äiti kysyi. Ei, sanoin, se ei kuulu meille. Mahtoiko hänellä olla siitä jotain iloa? äiti sanoi. Toivotaan niin, sanoin. Ihminen saa niin kauhean harvoin mitään iloa rakkaudesta, äiti sanoi.

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.

I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.

I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other.

Every artist is born in a place, within a family, and though she may leave those sources far behind, they remain within her.

Do you know who we are Mum?" And at that moment I just look into her blue planets for eyes, and she says, "We are Daughters of Song, Mama." And at that I jump up with new life, pick her up, and say, "Now let's go play"_____

I am proud of my kids, but I also want to make my mom proud of me. I'm still a momma's girl at the heart of the situation.

Sometimes I do envision just being a stay at home mom but not working isn't an option for me currently.

We are a very crafty family.

My kids will grow up in a house knowing that it's perfectly normal for two men to be in love, it's perfectly normal for two women to be in love. My kids will grow up knowing it's all about love. It doesn't matter who you're with and everyone should have that experience.