Quotes About Family

My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation before me and the generation after.

A major part of being prepared is having a plan. Local calls don't always work in the immediate vicinity of a disaster, so it's important to have an out-of-town contact with whom the entire family can check in.

You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.

My number one inspiration was my mother. She worked two jobs and had breakfast and dinner prepared. I essentially called my mother, The Lion. She's fierce and she's proud. I'd like to think some of that rubbed off on me.

I went to Jersey City State College to please a family member. I wasn't prepared for school. To say I failed out is putting it nicely.

My parents weren't at all in entertainment, but when I look back, something along the line prepared me and opened me up to entertainment.

I definitely want children. That's important to me, so I just want to make sure that I'm completely prepared for it when that day comes.

The greatest thing that prepared me for editing 'Vanity Fair' was having four kids because you just learn to subjugate your ego with the greater interest in mind.

I think there is something about... unless you come from a really evolved family that allowed you to talk about your feelings and felt like a safe environment, then you aren't really prepared to do that when you grow up.

When you come from within the industry, you are better prepared for the industry. For example, you see your family deal with the nonsense that is written in the papers, or the highs and lows of a hit and a flop.

I think I grew up with the idea that there was something comforting about preparing food.

Preparing food is one of life's great joys, but a lot of times, parents ask their kids if they want to cook with them and then tell them to go peel a bag of potatoes. That's not cooking - that's working!

As a working mother of a large family, preparing meals and shopping for groceries is time consuming and hard work.

Twice a year we film the orange juice commercials and at home in our daily life I try to involve the children as much as possible even in preparing meals.

My family was pious and Presbyterian mainly because my grandfather was pious and Presbyterian, but that was more of an inherited intuition than an actual fact.

I'm a Presbyterian minister's daughter.

My father was Presbyterian.

My father Eric had a magnetic presence. He was about 6ft 4in, with dark hair and pale blue eyes - and very attractive to women.

My father was not really a presence for me. He was away; he was in the German army.

I lost both my parents young - but I have felt their presence throughout my life.

M dad was a boxer, so he had this fierce, physical presence.

My dad was a presence, of course, but he worked nights a lot, and I would only see him one day a week.

I was lucky enough to meet someone when I was about 46 and had my first child when I was 48, so I got started late, but I also got all that other stuff out of the way and was at a point where I could be a consistent presence at home.

I was extremely close to my mother-in-law and after she, and later my father-in-law passed away, I continue to feel their presence.