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Quotes About Family

Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.
~ Jennifer Aniston
My father ended up starting the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, which is on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. My mother started a school.
~ Greg Mortenson
I'm sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance.
~ Bong Joon-ho
Whenever I get married, it will be a Bengali wedding. If I won't have a Bengali wedding, my mother won't come. She has warned me. So, I am going to have a Bengali wedding for sure.
~ Bipasha Basu
Wherever you find a wife and mother-in-law slugging it out, you'll find a son who's not speaking up to either his mother or his wife.
~ Harriet Lerner
My father is Swedish and my mother is French.
~ Eva Green
But even though all this was going on at home, if someone had tried to take me away and put me in a children's home, I couldn't have handled it. Even though my mother was very brutal, it was my home.
~ Lynn Johnston
My mother found a letter, though, that I wrote her when I was 8 years old and it was a letter where I asked if she could take me to the orphanage because I would like to adopt a little baby.
~ Kristen Stewart
When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.
~ Frank Gehry
My real name is Mica, spelled with a C. My dad is called Michael. He wanted me to be called Michael but my mother said over her dead body. She wasn't into the whole junior thing.
~ Mika
Noting his mother's visit to Las Vegas the weekend before she died. She got to go to heaven four days early.
~ William J. Clinton
I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
~ Laurence Sterne
Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
~ Edna O'Brien
The mother is the one who is going to help you in the long run! You must make her your friend. It matters what she thinks.
~ Sofia Vergara
I can't say I really see much difference between my son and daughters except that my girls will occasionally make me a sandwich and my son won't.
~ Kevin Costner
All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
~ Gordon Lightfoot
My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books.
~ Alejandro Amenabar
Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
When mothers know who they are and who God is and have made covenants with Him, they will have great power and influence for good on their children.
~ Julie B. Beck
My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.
~ Mary Augusta Ward
Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.' That doesn't mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday.
~ Albert Camus
All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell.
~ Lin Yutang
I can't cook! It's genetic. My grandmother can't cook, my mother can't cook. I was raised to believe you eat because your body needs fuel for energy, so I eat super foods.
~ Jada Pinkett Smith
Mother always said you were greedy.
~ Ralph Bellamy