Quotes About Family

When a mother has a baby, she should stay home with that baby.

I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us.

And I am standing in front of my mother, and my whole life I have wanted to make my mother proud. And now I'm going to make my daughter proud.

My priorities had been changing before I had Addie but after she was born they changed completely. I don't count - my daughter sort of owns me.

Babies! What a wonderful way to start people!

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.

It's obvious that they're going to want Ali's daughter and Frazier's daughter to fight it out.

The doctor's name was Sylvia. I told her she'd have a problem with me because Sylvia was my mother's name.

I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.

I guess I define myself as a mother, a wife, kind of a nutty person. A good person.

I take every opportunity to tell people how happy my mother is to be dead.

Mother was a talkative person, and I was a lot like her.

I think women who lead full lives are better mothers.

No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud.

(Yes teenage boys who are fine always cry on their mothers' shoulders until they leave a snot trail.)

I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano.

I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.

I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.

Now, I am thrilled to be a wife and mother, and I hope to be as good of a mother as my own mother, Carole.

My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.

My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff.

My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.

My dad used to flush my mother's head down the toilet. I was so screwed up.