Quotes About Family

Rod has always been like my third child and my most demanding boy out of the three.

My father was a difficult and demanding man.

Yes, it's true that my mother has a go at me when I don't track back. We are very, very close, and she demands a lot from me, which is great.

I think Grandad's demise brought our family closer. He has been such a great personality and inspiration to us.

My father was a Democrat.

I've always been a Democrat; it runs in my family.

I was lifelong Democrat just because, well, you know, monkey-see, monkey-do. I was just doing everything that my family was doing.

My family is democratic in the true sense.

I grew up as a Democrat in a very strong Democratic family, but I will tell you that the Democratic Party that exists in this country is not the Democratic Party I grew up around.

I have people ask me if I'm going to convince my daughters to be Democrats, and I say, 'I have yet to convince my daughters to close a door.' I don't how in the world I would ever convince them to be in a political affiliation.

My parents were Democrats.

I come from a long line of Democrats.

Having three kids at home is sometimes like dealing with Democrats and Republicans when you're choosing a restaurant.

The real demon in my life is my father.

My father decided early on to get me the best education money could buy. He wanted me to have the opportunities that were denied to him.

My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year.

Everyone in Denmark has at least two or three sailors in their family; sea travel is part of the DNA of our nation, and because of that, I'd always wanted to tell a story aboard a ship.

A big reason why I fell in love with Jenna was how much she cherishes her family. And my family means the world to me. Our families are very different but the common denominator is love.

My father wanted me to be a dentist like him, or any doctor, really. There was this attitude of, 'The civil rights movement was not about you being an artist.'

I was a bio major, and I was going to take over my aunt's dental practice and be a dentist.

Some of my family goes back a long way in Denver.

Denver is home to me. It's my everything. It's where my children are, where my lady lives, where I have my house.

I want to make my family, Denver and our country proud.

I lived in L.A. for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it.