Quotes About Family

My dad took me to loads of concerts when I was growing up.

My fans go right across the board. They come to my concerts in family groups.

Football, for me, wasn't a foregone conclusion. My parents didn't force me into it, and quite the opposite happened.

My father had sent me to Chennai on the condition that if I didn't make it in two years time, I had to be back in Coimbatore, find myself a job and settle down.

Once my grandmother's Alzheimer's condition worsened, I was always nervous to get calls from my Aunt Lisa who is her daughter that I was raised with.

We must protect those with pre-existing conditions and ensure that every American family has access to quality, affordable health care.

I hope my desire to travel so much isn't forever because it's not the most conducive lifestyle for a relationship or a family by any means.

There's a thing about film composing and conducting in my family.

My mother played piano at home; she came from a musical family. Her father, who I never met, was a conductor and composer.

When I was young I wanted to be a bus driver, because my grandad was a conductor on the Routemasters.

I'm not going to have any more children. I'm quite confident about that.

My mom always told me one of the reasons that she was really happy in her life was that, if Dad never worked again, she was confident that she could support the family.

I am Mr. McMahon's son. I always had a feeling that it was me. Now that it's been confirmed I could not be happier!

My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.

I felt like we had stories about family loyalty; I didn't feel like we had stories about what to do when you felt that loyalty to your family was in conflict with loyalty to yourself.

I was brought up in a house where I was so aware of a life that had been broken by politics and conflict.

Yes, a family is interesting. You can get a lot of drama in the conflicts there. It's like the sea. It seems calm, but inside there is conflict.

Zimbabweans, I've come to believe, we are very passive-aggressive people. We don't like conflict; we don't like confrontation, so we find all sorts of ways of avoiding that conflict and confrontation. We are not allowed to talk about bad things that go on in families.

Are there days where I wish I was just at home with my kids? Yeah, most days. But then I look at our accomplishments, and I feel alive; I feel so proud of myself. So it's a very confusing thing to be a working parent.

There was nothing exceptional about growing up as the son of a congressman.

Our dad was just a congressman for 27 years, and if you live in Washington, D.C., everybody's dad works for the government. We grew up just like everyone else.

It was as a mother that I needed my mother back, and I needed to conjure her anew and think about what she would have counselled and what she would have given.

There's something really wonderful about a party where you help yourself. Of course, first you get what you really want. But 'family style' service also really encourages people to connect with one another.

I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!