Quotes About Family

Indeed, most magicians catch the bug as kids. My first audience was my family in Long Island. My first 'assistant' was my mother, whom I levitated on a broom in our living room.

At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home.

I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.

My mother's five foot two and, I'll be honest with you, she's the only person I'm scared of.

It's my real name. My mother's name is Rose Rock. It was the worst name as a kid to have. They called me Piece of the Rock, Plymouth Rock, Joe Rockid, and Flintstones. Now they call me Mister Rock.

My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full of books, where reading was encouraged if not required.

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.

I know that a mother, no matter how impoverished or uneducated, will do anything to save her babies.

My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.

Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother.

I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.

My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldnt understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.

My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.

I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.

There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.

Yes. I owed my life, Angel's life, and my mother's life to a mutant's ability to create industrial-strength snot.

Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.

The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.

I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.

I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.

I suspect that hunger was my mother.

I love turning my daughter on to old movies.

Both of our daughters, Debbie and Bonnie, are also cancer survivors.