Quotes About Family

A misadventurer's greatest fear is their mother.

This was like watching murder. Defilement. And it was something worse than either of those things. Even among his family, black trade as they were, books were holy things.

When I was a kid I worried that when I woke up, I'd find my family having breakfast with my doppelgänger. We would fight to the death, and then my family would peacefully finish breakfast.

I was sick of the body count that existed around my family. It seemed statistically that eventually the body count would include my family.

When fear rushed in, I learned how to hear my heart racing but refused to allow my feelings to sway me. That resilience came from my family. It flowed through our bloodline.

My sister travels with me, and she's the person who keeps me in line, whether I like it or not. I trust her and also have a good, healthy fear of her.

I enjoy going to the Y. I take all the fitness classes that my dad takes; that's sort of our bonding - anything athletic, anything sports related.

I wish for everyone to help create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity.

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

Short of screaming-hot Thai food, everything can be suitable for kids too.

Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well.

Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.

Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.

What keeps me motivated is not the food itself but all the bonds and memories the food represents.

No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.

In my experience, clever food is not appreciated at Christmas. It makes the little ones cry and the old ones nervous.

I feel very fortunate that I was raised in a multicultural family, and it came through food.

Opening a family-style restaurant with comfort food like mac 'n' cheese, ribs and burgers has always been my dream.

We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food.

Food, to me, is always about cooking and eating with those you love and care for.

I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store.

My dad grew up basically in a hut in Taiwan without enough food to eat. And within one generation his son in America gets to do a comedy show about whatever he wants.

I eat only simple Indian home food - sabzi, roti, dal, chawal, ghee. There are so many benefits of having ghee. My grandmother is 84 and she is still fit and looks beautiful.

The story I tell is so incomplete, five kids in the house and no food to eat.