Quotes About Family

I was born in Washington, D.C., where my father was working for the Federal Trade Commission, and my mom was editor for the National Council of Catholic Women, but my parents were simply awaiting my birth before moving back to their roots in Rhode Island to raise their family.

'Born to Do It' took a kid out of a council estate and put my mum into a home of her own. It changed my whole family's situation, and all from doing something that I loved.

At the end of the day, you realize that this is important stuff, but it isn't as important as how my kids feel about me. That's how I'm going to measure my success - not how I did as counsel to the president or as attorney general. How did I do as a dad?

Personally, I would counsel any woman who asked, in my family, to do her best to carry the child full term, and I'd try to help. But I do believe the government should not prohibit a woman from making that decision.

I went on to become a drug counselor and then I became a mother, which is the biggest gift I've ever had.

My father was a huge jazz fan, so I remember him playing Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughn, and Count Basie.

Three English bulldogs count for one kid.

I come from a large family so you can count on the fact that I'm going to have more kids.

No one in my family is in show business, unless you count dog shows as show business.

In the Dolezal family, you couldn't always count on your parents to keep you safe.

If I'm going to be away from my family then I want to make the practice count more.

I don't count no one else's money. I want everyone to be taken care of and be able to take care of their families and be successful.

I grew up in the country. I am a real proud country boy, love getting back home.

When I was 12 years old, my dad got into country music. My first CD was Wynonna Judd, and I loved it.

I remember always looking forward to listening to country music in the car with my mother, and it wasn't even something I enjoyed in the sense of music, but just being around music itself was enough.

My dad was a country musician, so we had David Allan Coe and lots of other country music playing around the house all the time.

I grew up listening to country music because that's what was playing in our house.

Good on every mother, whether they breastfeed or not, because this is not an easy job and as long as you and your baby are healthy and happy, that's all that counts.

Math was always hard for me, but my dad would come up with ways of making it fun. I remember playing 'Number Munchers' on our old Mac... That counts as math class, right?

I live in the county where my mother was born and buried.

My life started on the banks of the Boyne in County Meath. Navan is the name of the town; only me, Mom, Dad.

My ma is from County Clare, so she's a Munster fan, so she keeps sending me Munster jerseys all the time, trying to convert me to Munster.

I spent many years of my childhood in Wyoming County and my roots are deep there.

Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of them, and a couple of old aunties.