Quotes About Family

My mother made me truly appreciate women.

My father, born in Colorado, met my mother, born in Switzerland, when he went into the finance company where she worked and asked for a loan.

My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.

My mother told me, 'Always do your best, ' and my dad says, 'It's important to be humble. That's the key. They're not there for you. You're there for them.'

My mother had very humble beginnings - to put it mildly. Her dad built their home out of timber that he cut down on their land. No heat, no air-conditioning - 'no foolishness, ' as he would call it.

My mother always bought our birthday gifts.

When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore.

You do stand alone sometimes. But my mother stood by me through all this.

My sisters are amazing. My sister is my business partner, my twin. She's an amazing producer, writer. You know, we're just grinding and trying to make my mother proud as well as God.

My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.

I've seen my mother struggling, everything that she did to raise me and my brothers and my sisters, and I know the anger that she went through.

My mother always wants me to put me on a diet.

The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was 'Cats', for my birthday.

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

I remember the fact that milk was delivered every day by a milkman. In summer, my mother would make what now seem in my middle-aged imagination the most delicious iced milkshakes.

My mother was a washerwoman - or a woman that cleaned houses in Texas... in Plano, Texas - who always loved poetry and always loved stories.

No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.

If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother.

Don't sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do.

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

I played basketball to try to get my parents from working so hard.

I remember thinking that I'd way rather give my parents my money, and not have to like have them go to work anymore, you know what I mean. Because I'd way rather spend more time with them.

My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months.

The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.