Quotes About Family

I don't do lip balm. I believe hydration really comes from the inside out, so I try to drink a lot of water. I have children who are always asking for Vaseline on their lips, but I'm saying we need to drink more water.

I grew up in Baltimore.

My father was murdered when I was 12 years old. It was just me and my mother and my brother at the time. My brother was a little bit older than me and he left, so it was just me and my mom for a bit in Baltimore.

Baltimore is my heart. The fans are family.

I had lost my mother during 'Boond Jo Ban Gaye Moti.'

I was born in 1940 in Hathazari, Chittagong, which is now part of Bangladesh. Education was always important to my parents, and with what little we had, they were able to provide an education for their children.

My dad's a jeweller, and my mom works for a bank.

My father worked in a bank while my mother looked after my four brothers and me, the only girl in our family.

My mother used to read me from Bank Street schools, that book, you know, Bank Street school had these early reader books. And my mother would read to my brother and I and we had all those advantages that everyone says you need to be successful in school and I was successful in school.

I came to the United States by myself when I was 16 years old. My parents had about $5,000 in their bank account, and they used it all to send me here because they truly believed that this country was where I was going to get the best education and have the best opportunities.

My wife, Barbara, is great. She arranges when I do work that I have a day off between performances.

I grew up in Denton, east Manchester, and was raised by my late father, Reg, a barber.

I have lots of athletes in my family and they showed me how to waterski - slalom, barefoot - all that stuff.

I have barely seen my son since he came into the world. Even though I hear his voice on the phone almost every day, it is very tough to not be present while he is growing up.

I lost my father when I was barely 10.

We barely had lights, but my mom always made sure we had food on the table and somewhere to sleep.

I come from a working class family. We barely had anything.

America is a place where the freedom to be who you are shouldn't be a barrier to your ability to get a job and provide for your family.

As awkward as it sounds. I'm not Shane Larkin, Barry Larkin's son, anymore. It's Barry Larkin, the father of Shane Larkin.

My brother and I worked in eight bars as the brother bartenders.

I've got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career.

I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.

I don't turn off being a dad. It supersedes being a baseball player.

When you say 'the man of the house,' the black woman has been the woman and the man of the house, because black men have so often had to spend all of their time and energy working and trying, at least, to give their families the basic needs. So black women, I find, are not really concerned about women's liberation.