Quotes About Family

Hours after I gave birth to my first child, my husband cradled all five pounds of our boy and said, gently, 'Hi, Sweetpea.' Not 'Buddy' or 'Little Man.' Sweetpea. The word filled me with unanticipated comfort.

The fall season brings Thanksgiving and the beginning of the holiday season. Sharing meals with family and friends are a key element of this joyful time of the year. We are faced with an abundance of food, and can easily gain extra pounds as a result.

I gained about 60 pounds when I was preggers with Lil Hank, and I'm desperately trying not to do the same with our daughter.

I am interested in a lot of the same things people are interested in. I am trying to raise kids without them self-destructing. I am trying to hold the marriage together, and I am trying to take off the same 10 pounds everyone else is.

My great-grandfather started in the coal mines, and my great grandmother made 10 pounds of bread every Saturday morning that we delivered to the neighbors. It was always about giving back. These kinds of things drive me to make a difference.

When I was born, I was 10.5 pounds. My dad said I was like a little rock. It's stuck with me ever since.

I always remember smelling Chanel No. 5 at home - my mum used to literally pour it, and she rocked it.

I put a lot of money in a coin-operated dry-cleaning place and it keeps losing money and I can't get anybody to buy it. So I keep pouring more money Into it, and into the laundry next door which'my father owns.

I worked at 'POV' for five years before I told one person about my brother.

For some reason, I had a responsibility to my family and the people who lived around me. I felt that I had to convey their dignity - the way they dealt with adversity and poverty - and their good humor.

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

I've still got family members living below the poverty line in New York.

I have a couple of acting projects coming up but Pow Pow Family Band is very much an ongoing thing.

When you have very lax parents, you tend to get more conservative kids.

I grew up in Spokane, Washington, in a very Christian, conservative home.

When people say, 'Well, I don't talk to my family because they're all conservatives,' or 'I don't talk to my family because they're racist,' I'm, like, 'No, no, no; that's exactly who you need to be talking to.'

We consider all our animals to be our kids.

No matter how American I become, I'm considered part of the Chinese community by my own family.

I never considered myself as part of a biracial family - we're just a family - but my parents are white, and my brother is Asian.

I told my parents that I will marry any girl they choose for me. They also told me that they are open to considering any girl I choose. We were very open about it throughout.

It's very difficult to overtly do it. But I try to live my life consistently as a man and as a father.

It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.

If parents shield their children from real feelings, kids falsely imagine their parents are in constant control of themselves - and may try to emulate them.