Quotes About Family

I still love my dad and appreciate what he's done for me, but I despise some of the things he has done to the family and certainly to my mum.

My dad moved to Britain from Bangladesh in the 1960s to work as an actuary for Prudential. However, after seeing an empty retail space in Soho, he decided to open an Asian restaurant instead, despite not having any business experience.

I grew up in a family where we had dessert for breakfast.

I never serve a dessert on Passover that I would not serve the rest of the year.

We were what you would call a poor family, but we were rich in so many things. We did family things together. We always had dessert, even if it was just Jell-O. So, I never knew I was poor.

Mother and Dad were destined to have a gaggle of children. We would not have been complete if they had stopped at two or four or even six. Nine of us we had to be.

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

I don't think a camera and a cameraman can destroy a family.

That TV set in your home has the power to destroy your family.

I grew up really religious, and my family still is, but I'm not so much. That scene in 'Cool Hand Luke', it just destroyed me.

Wife number four destroyed me absolutely: took me down to the bottom of the barrel because I had three kids with her.

We, as the Marley family, won't be responsible for destroying the community.

My love for my son just destroys me. I can barely even talk about it.

The biggest thing is separation from family. It's a huge burden to carry and destructive in a lot of ways.

I grew up in a single-family detached house. My parents are wonderful.

I work out in the Caribbean for half the year, playing a detective who's really into science. Anybody who knows me will tell you that's a dream come true. But it's tough for my family. We only get to see each other every two and a half to three weeks.

With this sort of career, you need determination. You've got to sacrifice a lot of things: family, friends - not that I had any - but you sacrifice everything.

My parents have been my biggest influencers. They both immigrated to America and taught me that I can do anything I dream of with hard work and determination.

I think probably all of my determination and eagerness to want to play professional sport came from my family.

I think blood doesn't determine who your family is.

Sometimes you can't be a champion. That doesn't determine who you are. But you can be a champion father, and that means everything.

I haven't got ambitions. Actually, I'm determined not to die until I get very old. I want to be a great-great-great-grandmother.

My dad didn't believe that I was going to make it through school, and that was the only thing I was determined to do, because he said that I wasn't going to do it.

I was determined to make a movie - about families and a love story - that black women would be proud to see and which would depict them as being smart, loving, sensitive, sexy, and funny.