Quotes About Family

My darling little girl-child after such a long and troublesome waiting I now have you in my arms. I am alone no more I have my baby.

The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.

The presidency is temporary-but the family is permanent.

God gave us our relatives thank God we can choose our friends.

The way it works in our family is, it's the family business. Much like in the Mafia. Every child is given the opportunity to act at a young age and to learn what it's like to be in the business.

I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.

If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

We would not have been a successful family without my father and stepfather, who were working-class men with better dreams for their children. We just wore them out.

I came from a dysfunctional family - very dysfunctional. And my father used to find great humor in throwing me down the stairs.

I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult, and there was a lot of humor. None of it was painless humor. All of it was at someone else's expense. It was kind of always about power.

My story as an artist has been about trial and error. It's been about artist development, character building, struggle, happiness and failure, family, and music.

'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot of ideas that we have about family and about parenting.

For me, conscious parenting is staying attuned to your child, being really open and in the moment. It means staying as present as possible in your own breath for the betterment of your whole family.

I go to the pub, hang out with my family - that's pretty much it. I also do a lot of sports when I get the chance. I'm actually a pretty mellow guy.

I loved to do sports when I was young. We were on a family holiday and went sailing. I just loved it. And there, you can say, life began to change for me.

During the holiday season, Christmas specifically, it can be hard to be away from family and friends.

If I'm getting on an airplane or anywhere, really, I have a lunch box and stuff. It's a running joke with my friends and family - everyone gives me lunch boxes for Christmas.

When I was 11, I made truffle risotto for my family for Christmas dinner.

The family is the focal point of our existence. And up until Jane and Lucy's death, there were always 16 of us together for Christmas.

Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer.

I don't go back home to Sardinia as much as I would like, just for Christmas and family events.

Everything I achieve affects my family as well, and suddenly, my kids' dad became the most famous man in the country for a couple of weeks.

My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.