Quotes About Family

Children do divide a woman, in an odd sort of way.

truebone" family

The fruit of her life is her grandson who is not yet born.

There is, it's worth noting, no "Mom-with-three-ungrateful-children Barbie.

Wait a minute,' I countered. 'Didn't you just tell me about all the strong women role models in your family, about how you were loud and have a big personality and didn't take shit?' 'I know,' she said. 'I think I didn't realize...' She paused, trying to reconcile the contradiction. 'I guess no one ever told me that the strong female image also applies to sex.

It wasn't just hostility I felt around my mother, it was inadequacy. I had loved my early childhood with her. We'd spent long hours playing beauty parlor and teay party, baking holiday cookies.

In every home in America, in the world, there was cruelty, anger and hatred - things I didn't feel.

I grew up in a family full of yellers. People screaming and chaos goin' on, I feel right at home in it. I've really worked on myself with anger management. I try to save that for the stage.

My dad shaped the footballing side of me, and Mum shaped me as a person. I've always been very close to her - we've only ever had one argument, and that was over something stupid when I was 13.

In a family argument, if it turns out you are right, apologize at once.

I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.

The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.

I tell my boys not to play rough with their younger sister. I try to teach them what I know already: You're never going to win an argument with a girl, so just let her have what she wants!

Often, just as when they were children, it was four against one when some argument came up. At least they no longer sat on him to force him to submit to their wishes.

Father sighed. "Please spare me these arguments of yours." "Whose arguments should I use?

People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that. I had an argument with my mom about Father's Day and why it's not celebrated like Mother's Day.

Most arguments with teenagers are setups. Your darling, simply stated, is manipulating you.

Children key off their parents' reaction more than the argument or physical discipline itself.

I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.

Arty farty, you'll never fool your Aunt, who knew you picked your nose and wet your pants.

It's no fun to be a bluestocking in a family of jockstraps.

Our faces will become works of art that our grandchildren will treasure.

I think it was a matter of, like, I'm not going to have my kids in these wild streets. Both my twin brother and I were in art school together.

Both of my parents were cartoonists - they met in art school - so I was always drawing and I was the best artist in my class and all that stuff.