Quotes About Family

Love is a pest and papa knows the best.

My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.

My dad is a lawyer and my mom is an artist. So growing up was exactly what it sounds like - strict household but a lot of creativity. They are so psyched that I get to make music for a living. My parents rule.

I'm not sure why no one wants to admit there's a viable audience out there that believes in God and wants to see a movie with their family. The demand is there. The supply is not.

Tyler Perry's brand is faith, family and this whole thing that I've built, while my company, 34th Street Films, is like Disney's Touchstone. We can do anything. People don't know what to expect from me yet.

You might find, as I did, that the people you love the most

MY CHILDHOOD WAS A STORY of discouragement, belittlement, and unthinkable abuse, and yet I rose above. There was no way I could have found any kind of happiness, hope, or vision if my mother, Maxine, and my aunt Mae hadn't shown

say "adopted" because my father, Emmitt, was abandoned and discovered in a drainage canal at the age of two. He was taken to Mae so that she could raise him.

Ordinarily, that would have meant living in anxiety and fear, but my father was a different kind of man when he was around Mae. Instead of boiling up in anger and violence, he was a placid lake. He would even brag about what

He'd stomp through the house in his heavy work boots, yelling about everything we were doing wrong. If anything got in his path, he would explode and his fists would fly. Almost in a supernatural way, his anger would turn his brown eyes into an electric green, and when that happened I knew the worst was still to come. This was our hell on earth, and Mamma and I were burning in its flames.

child. My fondest memories of times together were our Sunday mornings in church—just the two of us. When we were in God's sanctuary, we could safely open our hearts and let our souls be free and vulnerable. Church was our refuge, and Jesus, as my mother taught me, was our rock.

That [expletive] is lying to you!" he warned my mother. "He's a nickel slick and a dollar short." But my mother was insistent. She wore her father down until, finally, he gave his consent.

At eighteen years old, she found herself pregnant with my sister, and at nineteen pregnant again with my other sister. The abuse, beating, yelling, and belittling never stopped. At twenty-four years, she was pregnant again, and there I was, born into it.

The greatest gift I've ever been given is to be able to take care of my beautiful, amazing mamma—the strongest Root Person in my life.

I remember one really horrible fight when he was tearing into my mother—and then he came after me with a fury I had never seen before. I was beaten bloody that night.

One night I told my mother something that I had kept a secret. I had seen Emmitt touching one of my sister's young girlfriends inappropriately. When I told my mother, the look of panic and shock in her eyes made me feel like I might have shattered her soul. My own heart split open.

You tell her this? You little [expletive], I'll tell you something….I'll get you." My mother gunned the gas, and we drove off.

Emmitt's cruel actions, his impatience, disrespect, uncontrollable anger, and violence, taught me all the ways I didn't want to be like him. My father stomped through our house, shooting his ugly, bone-chilling stare in my direction and sneering, "There's that little son of a bitch. Look at that jackass.

On my mom's side I'm Mexican, and my dad is a white dude.

a face only a mother could love"?

My daughter's mother and I are no longer dating, and the people I'm most likely to date are those around me, who are athletes.

Zu Hause sein. Was heißt das? Es heißt, dass da jemand ist, den alles, was du erlebt hast und noch erleben wirst, interessiert.

have come to the conclusion through my experiences, knowledge, and through the practice of yoga, that all that really matters is health, love, and family.

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the State forever separate.