Quotes About Family

I can't answer for my mother. She was a very private person, and did not discuss a lot of things.

My mother's whole family had been from the theater, really. Because I grew up in Hollywood, I wasn't that interested in Hollywood. But the New York theater was completely exotic and fabulous to me.

Mother, you had me, but I never had you.

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.

I was raised with Eddie Fisher as a father and Connie Stevens as a mother. It was sort of hard for me to pick anything else, because this was the life I knew.

I would have to say that my mother's entrepreneurial perspective, and that of her father's, are very evident in my own outlook.

John McCain responded to critics who say he's too old for a sixth term by saying that his mother is 103 years old and doing well. The crazy thing is that even she is somehow younger than John McCain.

I became a writer because I am the youngest of six children. I listen; I observe. I'm camouflaged as a moth. Mothers are unseen. It helps me write.

my mother ... took the fact that my taste differed from hers as a personal insult.

But to me, the most important page in my daughter's book is the last one - because it's blank. It says, "Your Hero's Photo Here," and, "Your Hero's Story Here."

I'm a mother, and my life is very full.

Daddy,' my mother asked, 'aren't we going to run out of gas?' No there's plenty of god-damned gas.' Where are we going?' I'm going to get some god-damed oranges!

I never felt like I had a mother.

Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.

My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.

the only way to tolerate the thought of her mother sleeping with that man was to get drunk-very drunk.

Oh my God — I'm turning into my mother!

Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child.

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

Yes, I slouch. My mother tells me that.

But you can't always tell - with somebody's mother, I mean. Mothers are all slightly insane.

My daughter is wonderful and incredibly well behaved. I am very lucky. She will always be my priority.

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.