Quotes About Family

Home wasn't a pleasant place to live, growing up.

My father usually does not talk to me about my films, and it was a pleasant moment when he appreciated me the first time.

What I am trying to get across to you; is please take of yourselves and those that you love; because that is what we are hear for, that's all we got, and that is all we can take with us. Are you with me?

As a child, all I knew was that people kept asking me to sing, and because I liked to please, I would sing. It wasn't until my dad told me that my singing made him happy that I began to think my voice might be good.

I'm getting money over here. I'm good, I'm young, I'm finally in a position to feed my family; please don't take that away from me.

It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.

I haven't mowed a lawn in quite a while, but I remember hating that when I was growing up. To please Dad, you have to get it right, and that's the thing. You have to please Dad.

My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.

Please, let's talk to American families and sit around the dinner table at night figuring how to pay their bills.

I wanted to be a good kid, and I wanted to please my parents.

I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. And I believe if He's pleased, that people like my mother and my daddy, my grandparents, you know, my husband, my children, they'll be pleased.

I got a little bit pleased with myself. I didn't buy a Rolls-Royce or anything like that but I didn't see my biological family for a while. I was getting a bit self-important and they told me. They dragged me back.

My family were nothing but pleased when I told them I wanted to be a comedian.

At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money than my father, but he was pleased for me.

Our father was a farmer and an entrepreneur as well as a musician, and we're pleased to deliver the fine taste of Jamaican coffee and our family's heritage to people everywhere through Marley's One Drop.

I'm pleased to say I grew up in a happy family in Dublin. I feel we're very close.

When I was somewhere between child and adult, my father left us. My first family broke apart, but this liberated me to create a new family as I pleased.

I'm really pleased to form part of the Barca family.

My father was not really pleased when I told him of my choice to train as an actress, when he was with us in this dimension.

The spiritual message is we lose our lives in pleasing others; if you're the good child who pleases Mommy and Daddy but internalizes anger, you're setting yourself up for disease.

The only person I worry about pleasing is God, my husband, my family, and myself.

It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.

My mother was largely a housewife until she and my father were divorced. No one in the family read for pleasure - it was a very unintellectual household - but my mother did read to us when we were little, and that's how I started to read.

'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.