Quotes About Family

I once asked her, after reading a Dixie cup riddle, "What's worse than finding a worm in an apple?" The cup's answer was "Finding half a worm in an apple." My grandma Rosie's answer? "Having someone shove an umbrella up your tuchis . . . and then open it.

Seinfeld's a hit? Give him a wife, you've got Mad About You. Throw in some kids—it's Everybody Loves Raymond. Make it suck—and it's Home Improvement.

THEIR GRANDKIDS MAKE THEM DO IT. This was the case with George Harrison, and it made us all feel very old.

The fact that we heated most of the old farmhouse with nothing but a woodstove was a source of great pride for my father and endless inspiration for witticisms like, "Chop your own wood it'll warm you twice!

There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And that is to get right down to the root cause of the problem.

My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old.

If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up.

When you look at a family, if you have a family that never interacts with each other, never has strong conversation with each other, never has disagreements, nine times out of ten you have a very cold family and they're not going to be, at the end, they're not going to be close.

She could feel the emotional wedge between him and his father. It must be very hard for them to work together, she thought. Maybe she just didn't understand the ways of the super wealthy.

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.

The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.

Need isn't your own mother, but it makes people kin.

My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you're a kid, you can learn a language much more easily I learned English in less than a year.

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.

Big Ma didn't need to say any more and she didn't. T.J. was far from her favorite person and it was quite obvious that Stacey and I owed our good fortune entirely to T.J.'s obnoxious personality.

I probably have an earlier curfew than anyone. My mom wants to keep me really safe and my dad's not overly protective, but he's a dad no matter what.

My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that.

The only people that you really have, that I learned, are your family, because they love you no matter what.

I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.

Time goes too fast. Come home.

The death of the child is always a model for the death of the parent. A mother gives birth in order to give life to her child; a child dies in order to shape the death of its father.

First we are children to our parents, then parents to our children, then parents to our parents, then children to our children.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.