Quotes About Family

I love ABC Family!

I come from a very matriarchal family, which is the case for a lot of Aboriginal families.

I'm open to going abroad, even though it will be difficult with my son.

But I still always felt the absence of a mother.

In some ways, I've been left with this great 'idolic' image of my father, but there's a sense of absence, too. You miss his advice and, also, his getting to know the person I have become.

My parents' relationship with Kolkata is so strong. Growing up, the absence of Kolkata was always present in our lives.

I know that the absence of my father in my life had its cost.

I cook so that there is no absence. I cook so that I am always there, even when I'm gone, even when I die, and my cooking translates in my daughter's memory as, simply, this: time.

Part of my whole project from the beginning was to make an absent world present for my parents, which was India.

I've wanted to be a parent for a really long time, and I'm going to make sure I'm doing everything I can to be present in her life, to be her mother. I don't want to be absent from her life.

I do love my dad, we have a great relationship now but there were years when he was absent and it was my mum that raised me.

I look back on how I was as a child, I had a wonderful mom and an absent father, but I still had a great childhood.

My family was as absolute as the work.Family was first always.

I can tell you that my family in the absolute worst of times has seen the absolute best in people. And, that has given us more strength than could ever imagine.

I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.

I want my kids to be proud of their dad and not to go to school and hear abuse. One day they will read many things about me and I would like it to be about football.

I grew up in a terrible home of abuse and I didn't realize I was in a home of abuse.

My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.

I think my mom always wanted to play the guitar, and somehow she projected that to me. So I started learning to play guitar when I was five years old, but actually I'd never managed to get the academic side of it. So even up to today, I don't know how to read or write music.

My parents were bookish, very musical, but otherwise uninvolved in the arts or the academic world.

I was spectacularly average at school, while my two brothers did really well academically. But my dad never said I didn't try hard enough. He knew I did my best.

At home, our focus has always been academics and playing.

Even if I had not become a doctor like my parents, I would've done something to do with academics.

My mother has lived abroad and I've grown up hearing her talk, so probably that's where I get this accent from.