Quotes About Family

My father was convinced that America was the greatest place in the world. I'm afraid I didn't have the family I would have dreamed of.

I learned how to cook and do a lot of marital things.

You know, nobody can ever cook as good as your mama.

I don't live my life as a writer. I'm a mother, an African-American woman, and I do everything that everybody else does - cook and a little bit of cleaning.

When we're home, we like to cook and be together and do mom things when we can.

I cook every day. If I don't cook, they don't eat. Who's going to do it? I'm their mother!

Breakfast is my favorite meal. I cook a big one for everyone - bacon and eggs. I own a lot of eggcups.

Food is a big part of my culture, so everyone knows how to cook. When I came to America and asked a babysitter to softboil an egg for my son and she didn't know how, I was shocked.

My abuela was an incredible cook.

I'm more to my family than a wonderful, luminous cook. I'm also a wonderful, luminous butler and a wonderful, luminous chauffer. And checkbook. I'm a luminous checkbook, too.

My kids really like food, and they like to cook, so it's a lot of fun to shop with them.

I love home cooked Mangalorean food with all our coconut based gravies with different sprouts.

I had never cooked. I had never wanted any other food that wasn't from my mum. Her food is special.

I've always thought my dad was fantastic and now I'm a dad myself I can see what an incredible sacrifice he made as a man in the 60s - he was there every day for me, cooked my meals and shaped me.

Since I'm from the South, anything that's home cooked, I'm down for.

I accomplished what I set out to do. I wanted the whole cookie, and I got it. Now I want to spend more time with my children - make sure they don't go through what I did.

My mother was a real tough cookie. She raised the three of us, and she worked at the same time.

My family, as you can probably guess, was more into Christmas cookies and not so much the fruitcake.

Cooking for six people every day is like having a cafe.

I like being at home and cooking.

This shared love of cooking and celebration has allowed me to create a strong bond with my family.

I'm taking care of the children, doing a bit of cooking and trying to do a bit of DIY around the house. But that's not going too well.

It's not like I'm cooking! I'm breastfeeding - I feel like that's the best cooking I could do.

You look at the Barefoot Contessa or Lydia Bastianich, and it's just like watching your mother cooking.