Quotes About Family

We are all very deeply the children of our parents and their parents. Far more than we generally realize.

My default answer to most of the questions my kids ask me is 'no.' I just start with 'no.' I let them fight for it a little bit.

The name 'Fojian' says it all. There was a time when each family had a person in the defence forces.

I defend just like my brother Todd lived. He taught me how to play defense by the way he lived his life. I defend like every game is my last game, like anything can be taken away at any moment, and that's what my brother taught me. That's what he always preached to me, so that's how I believe the game should be played.

In my father's later years he asked several times that I remember him the way I knew him. He said that after his death, people would talk. They would say 'things' about him and he wouldn't be there to defend himself.

I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.

Look, I'm happy to defend my dad. I don't think he needs any defensiveness.

I have always felt it was my duty to protect my family. After Imran became family, I defended him in every way.

My parents, man, they're just the most loving, encouraging... They're like those people who define themselves through their role as parents before people in their own rights.

Whatever you define family as, family is just a part of belonging to something that takes care of you and nurtures you... and when you have lost that, and you want to get that back, it's pretty easy to get emotional about it.

My job doesn't define my kids in any way. When we go to places, it's about them and it's about us as a family. I think they're proud of me, but I'm just Dad.

Not having a great relationship with my brother Aaron, or what people think that relationship should be, didn't define me.

I get kids who say, 'Oh, I love your movie, but my mum loves your dad.' It's really nice to be able to share that with him, but it doesn't define who I am career-wise.

Words don't define me. Actions, my faith, and the strength of my relationships and family do.

I define myself by my family: my parents or my brother or sister and their families.

Love is love. Family is family. A family's sexuality does not define the wonderful parent that they can be for their children.

You have to decide what it is that shapes and defines you. I'm a big sister and a co-parent with my mom before anything. That's my root of all. It's my foundation.

My most defining moment was the death of my mother.

Mom' is my third film with my wife and there's a definite comfort level.

I'm definitely the super-cool dad.

My children have brought so much happiness and joy. To me, they're the very definition of love.

All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree - I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing.

My brother's got two degrees. He got one for me.

My mother had a wall of degrees in our house, and she would walk me up to the wall and say, 'When you have this many degrees, you can tell me what to do.'