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Quotes About Family

I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously.
~ Roz Chast
My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me.
~ Diego Maradona
My mother and father met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was a senior and she was a junior, and their marriage didn't last very long.
~ Michael Douglas
Mother! Believe me, this word is more sacred than the name of Lord Ram.
~ Tanmaya Guru
The happy family is a myth for many.
~ Carolyn Spring
My family is pretty funny. My mother is British, so she's got a very dry sense of humor. That's where I got that from.
~ Jason Bateman
Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.
~ Frank McCourt
I'd rather be the protector than the protected. I'm naturally the protector - being a mother and having a famous family. You have to navigate when it's right to protect.
~ Solange Knowles
If I go to a reunion in east Texas, my mother's side or my father's, one out of ten is a preacher or a teacher. That's just the way it is in my family.
~ Forest Whitaker
Being a mother of two myself - and two small girls - I think that single parenting is hard.
~ Sarah Clarke
You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.
~ Ethel Waters
It's the sense of what family is at the dinner table. It was the joy of knowing mother was in the kitchen making our favorite dish. I wish more people would do this and recall the joy of life.
~ Paul Prudhomme
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age.
~ Benjamin Spock
Somebody ripped their pants open at my wedding, dipping my mother. My mother is not a lady who throws herself into a dip that often, so I don't think he thought she was really going to do it.
~ Melissa McCarthy
I'm a teacher. My mother was a teacher. I spent 40 years as a teacher.
~ Bobby Knight
It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
~ Vidal Sassoon
I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.
~ Celine Dion
Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's discernment and my father's strength.
~ Coretta Scott King
My mother works in a bank, and my dad is the head of my management team and also works in finance.
~ Henry Cavill
In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's place is in the home!
~ Ezra Taft Benson
My mother was a teacher. She was grooming my brother and me to be successful, accomplished people.
~ Laverne Cox
In my case, my mother had to be my mother and father, so I am thankful to her.
~ Henrikh Mkhitaryan
When my mother had four girls, and she could tell her marriage was falling apart, she went back to college and got her degree in music and education.
~ Andie MacDowell
My mother never said to lose weight. Diets were never a big deal. My mom was always beautiful and voluptuous and curvy, and I always thought she was gorgeous.
~ Christina Hendricks