Quotes About Family

Be with the ones you love (and the ones that love you.) Ignore everyone else.

Fiorito has all the right stuff. His splendid memoir about his relationship with his dying father belongs on that small shelf with Philip Roth's Patrimony and Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes.

I really have always wanted to be a parent, and when I hit 36 and had just ended a relationship, I remember thinking how much I still wanted it. But I thought I'd adopt.

My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.

My childhood definitely revolved around my relationship with my brother. I wanted to be different. I wanted to find my way of being as intriguing and interesting as he was.

I've got a great relationship with my dad, but I can imagine how annoying it would be if I had to move back into his house.

I think you got to put your intimate relationship first. If you can keep your woman first and still love your children, you are going to create the healthiest environment.

Except, I think, it's more about me growing up and becoming an adult that I have this new best-friend type of relationship with my mom.

I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.

Lovers forget that after marriage and kids, it's no longer a 'relationship' - It's a family.

My relationship with my sister is so central to my life. She's my closest friend, my biggest supporter, and I know she would say the same about me.

The closer the genetic relationship of the family members, as for example father-to-son, as opposed to uncle-to-nephew, the higher the degree of cooperation.

When you have an animal in your home, a relationship forms very quickly, where that animal ceases to be an animal to you. It feels like a member of your family.

I'd love to have a great relationship with my father. And unfortunately... I don't.

The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.

....he has done nothing but prove to me that not only is he a good man, he's a man madly in love with my daughter, and will do anything to protect her.

It's a father's place to hate the son-in-law. It's our place to put them through h*ll just to make sure they know what they're doing.

Righteous marriage is a commandment and an essential step in the process of creating a loving family relationship that can be perpetuated beyond the grave.

I feel so lucky to have a mom who is not only an extraordinary actor but someone who is game enough to not worry about our relationship versus what we play in movies or television.

My mom is a wonderful woman. She's always been an inspiration to me, but having kids helped me make even more sense of my relationship with her.

My mother-in-law belongs in Hell, but the devil is afraid she'll end up taking over.

The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.

It would be nice if I did have a good relationship with my family, and yes, part of me longs to have a mum and dad who love and accept me for who I am. But if they never do, it's OK.

I have a son, but I've never had a daughter. I have a sister, and my sister had a fairly tempestuous relationship with my dad when she was young, and that was gripping and sometimes upsetting.