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Quotes About Family

My dad is from Japanese descent, my mom is from Swedish descent and, through marriages and divorces, a pretty multicultural family - a lot of Spanish speakers in the family.
~ Cary Fukunaga
I might be more fluent in Swedish than I am in Spanish. My wife speaks it to our kids, and they're fluent so I hear it all the time, so I've got that under my belt.
~ Will Ferrell
The last name is pronounced Jill-en-hall. It's spelled with two l's, two a's. We have a song in my family; G-Y-Double L - EN - HAAL spells Gyllenhaal. It's a Swedish name. It's a family heirloom set to music.
~ Jake Gyllenhaal
My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.
~ Susan Lucci
I speak English with my dad and Swedish with my mom; it's quite schizophrenic.
~ Joel Kinnaman
I speak Swedish mainly with my kids' friends.
~ Greg Poehler
I didn't grow up with a musical family. My mom had a lot of CDs in the house, particularly Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, ABBA, all the sort of like diva icons. She's Swedish, so she loves pop music.
~ Nina Nesbitt
People across the country think I'm jealous of my dear, beloved, sweet, angel sister. But there is no-o-o-o jea-ea-ea- lou-ou-ou-ou-sy-y-y-y. I love her too much.
~ Reggie Miller
I am an old geezer: a grandpa kind of a guy. I was born October 19, 1931. I have gray hair, a beard, and a little pot belly. I have two children who are over 30 years old and a sweet little granddaughter who is 11 years old.
~ Ed Emberley
You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother, the kind of hippie painter, sweet and cute mother has no love for her daughter really.
~ Ellen Barkin
The feather was a thing, when I was a kid, we used to find feathers around the house, and whenever we found them, my mum used to say it was my nan leaving them around for us to find, so that was quite sweet.
~ Liam Payne
My mother was a very sweet soul and a beautiful person, but she had a lot of fear.
~ John Grant
The sweet companionship of eternal marriage is one of the greatest blessings God has granted to His children.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming.
~ Lord Mountbatten
I mean, my girls are very sweet; I'm very proud of all of of them.
~ Alan Jackson
We didn't have a lot of money growing up, so my mom didn't buy a lot of extras, like sweet things.
~ Julianne Moore
I want someone honest, someone who's very sweet to my family and friends, and polite to the other people around me.
~ Selena Gomez
I love my son. He's a great soul. He's a sweet person, but events that have happened to him in his life, some of his own making - as a parent ,you really can't take full responsibility for the destruction that can happen to a child.
~ Lorenzo Lamas
Dad was a very gentle, sweet man. Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family. She ran the roost with a steel fist, but at the same time there was respect and love for her.
~ Tony Scott
To be on television and have my nieces and nephews see me, and seeing them wear my shirt to the games and be proud, it's so sweet. Sometimes it feels like it's just a dream.
~ Sue Wicks
Oh, definitely and you know you take the bitter with the sweet but the benefits far outweigh the burdens of what I've been able to do for my family, my word.
~ Star Jones
Dad was a very gentle, sweet man.
~ Tony Scott
My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
~ Gabrielle Union
I grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved to sweet death.
~ Len Cariou