Quotes About Family

My father was a businessman, but my mother was an intellectual. She cared about culture, politics, and philosophy, so I became interested in the protest aspect of Latin American art.

My father was always slightly bemused by my success. Although he knew that I had reasonable intelligence, he always thought that I was a little bit lazy.

I quit my job in the bank when I was 19. I took a chance. I went to Milan to study opera and singing. My father really supported me economically.

I think about my father and how sad it was that he never had grandchildren.

I'm ridiculous in my oversharing my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.

Green has always been my mom's favorite color. My father, aunt and I have gotten her jade, emerald, and peridot pieces over the years, and we always seem to be on the lookout.

I'm a car nut. My father was a parts manager at a Chevrolet dealership.

My father played five years for Valence in France's second division. I'd always cry when he would leave for training. Every morning, I'd say, 'Dad, take me with you. Please, please take me with you!'

Any son of a dictator, I'm sure, has major issues with their relationship with their father.

When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.

I don't eat pork or beef. I cut that out when my father passed away about 20 years ago. I wanted to modify my diet because he passed away from diabetes. And, you know, it's very hereditary.

My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

After my father died, we were pretty much wiped out financially as a family, so I decided to give finance a try.

My mother was a great inspiration to me to always do my best. My father has always been my mentor and friend. They taught me the basic principle that guides most all that I do: faith, focus, finish.

I don't know about marriage as much as I do know that I'd be a great father.

I don't know what it's like to have a typical father figure. He's not the dad who's going to take me to the beach and go swimming, but he's such a motivational person.

My parents, especially my father, discussed the question of my brothers' education as a matter of real importance. My education and that of my sister were scarcely discussed at all.

I am really looking forward to driving another of my father's car at the show in Rotterdam.

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

For a non-violent person the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him.

Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, 'I have two moms - it's cool.' I don't fear that at all.

Luke was a little boy in a growing body that felt pain and sadness and fear for his mum, and he always believed he would be safe with his dad.