Quotes About Family

Well, my mom was an Olympian, so we have some good genes on that front.

I'm so lucky to have such a great family. I respect them so much professionally, and they've been unconditionally supportive in the choices that I've made. It's been very good having them on my side.

The menus that remain, for me, are really the menus that you have with your good friends, with your wife, with your mother, with your kids. These are what stay in your mind.

It's nearly impossible for a criminal to come from a good mother.

the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.

A good mother is protective but not over-protective. She's patient, she's affectionate, she's playful, but above all she is supportive.

My mom was a single mom, and she had enough on her plate. I knew when I was doing something I wasn't supposed to, and I tried to keep her from finding out about it. I did a pretty good job of that.

I've never heard anybody in my family say anything but good things about Rick Perry.

I think my faith is important. Being young as well, sometimes it's difficult, but I've got a good family behind me as well.

My dad was a good man but an emotionally absent father, and so I had to look for that male attention somewhere else, and found it in a brother-in-law. He just happened to be an alcoholic.

We have a good opportunity to be good parents right now.

The kiss lasted forever as Otto Frank kept talking from behind me. "And my conclusion is," he said, "since I had been in very good terms with Anne, that most parents don't know really their children.

Most people would rather sit on a plane for two hours than spend two days on a train, but there's nothing comparable to taking a relaxing rail journey with your family or good friends.

Everything makes you who you are, so I was lucky that I had a good family that was horrified by what I wanted to do but was also supportive of it, right to the very end.

I was raised that emotion was a good thing.

I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me.

My dad is such a good man. You know how when you are a child you think your dad is invincible? Well, I still think that - he is so wise and everything I do I ask my dad's advice about first.

I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them.

I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.

It occurred to me then that I was the opposite of my father. Because I was very, very good at destroying things.

99.9% of being a good parent is just being present with your child. On the flipside of that, 100% of being happy is just being present.

I don't think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother.

My family was not an artistic family, but somewhere in my head, I thought I might be good at it. I don't know why I thought it. I had no evidence to think I might be good at it.

I'm very, very family oriented. I'm a big cook and a good connoisseur and I only drink very good red wines now.