Quotes About Family

I think about my grandfather who's 89 years old, and the last thing he needs is more money out of his pocket.

My brother starting earning early in life. I stopped taking money from my parents, and my brother would give me the pocket money.

My father was a doctor, but his passion was making cars, and he was also very good at carpentry. He was a gem, and I don't blame him for not understanding me. When I told him that I would be leaving, he checked his pocket and took out 100-rupee note and gave it to me. He did not like that I was leaving, yet he gave me the money.

Growing up on a farm, I saw that if I didn't go to the military or go to school, and I knew my mom and my family wasn't going to be able to send me to school out of their pocket, so it basically came down to athletics. I knew I didn't want to work on a farm. I knew I didn't want to do manual labor the rest of my life.

We need to stop shortchanging our families and future in order to line the pockets of millionaires and special interests.

The poem that became the song 'Gold All Over the Ground' was written during 1967, when my dad was really falling in love with my mother.

I had written here and there about my mother in my poems. There are poems for her in my first and second books.

I lived on the farm with my parents and grandparents. I had no playmates as a young child, and I was indulged. I helped my grandmother piece quilts, and we made pretty albums, an old-fashioned pastime. We cut poems and pictures out of magazines.

My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative.

My brother told me I was going to be a poet. I had a good brother. He did a lot of good brotherly work.

My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet.

I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.

I grew up writing. It was very natural in my household. My father was a poet, and his mother had been a novelist back in Hungary. I don't think I really thought about it being my career until high school, which is still pretty early, but it was a while there of just assuming this was something everyone did all day long.

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.

I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.

You have to write some poetry, first of all, to decide if you can become a lyricist. I was born in a family of poets.

There is a natural rhythm to parent-child interactions, including the fact that some parental insights prove poignant and veridical decades after they were first shared with us.

We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life.

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

If you've got children it's a hell of an everyday job. From a business point of view, children and husbands slow you down.

And I used to assemble the family to hear because I thought that they were so good that even from the point of view of enjoyment people shouldn't miss them, and I got every word of his that I could, and I could see by hard argument there was only the one way for it.

From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.

I spent the first 16 years of my life in Scotland. My whole family is there. It's in my blood and informs my sense of humour, my point of view, the people I choose to spend time with, everything.