Quotes About Family

My parents are like many across Britain. Neither on the breadline, nor loaded, they were determined to give their daughter all that any of us can ask from our parents: love, security, ambition and hope.

I grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. For part of my life, I was living in Detroit, and I remember a friend of mine commenting she could always tell when I had been speaking to my mother because my New York accent had come back.

My mother was actually born in Toledo and raised in Detroit.

Iraq is just like New York. It's just like Detroit. It's where people live and raise their families.

The Detroit situation shocked the whole system. Obviously you don't condone any type of fighting. But you've got to make the best decision for you and your family at the time, and you don't have a lot of time to think out that process.

A betrayal in a family is much more devastating than a betrayal among friends, or even lovers.

Divorce in and of itself, and with children, is devastating.

Do I miss him? Of course I do. Every day. His death was devastating, he was just 51. But you know, in my stand-up my Dad will always be alive. He's so much part of my act.

More than reading - much more than reading, in fact - I developed a love for telling stories from listening to two parents who really knew how to do it. And it really is an art.

My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.

I devote my whole life to my family, and that's the least I could do, because there's only one me and 14 of them. I have to give all my energy and all of me to my kids.

I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.

I'm devoted to my family and my businesses.

Before I had children, everything about my life was devoted to Saturday Night Live.

I am devoted to my two children, who are far and away more important to me than anything.

I love my boys very much. I want only the best for them and am committed to being a devoted father.

My father loved me and was devoted to me until he knew I was gay, and then our relationship went south. So I always make sure that I let my sons know that I will love them, no matter what they do or who they become, for the rest of their lives.

I think I devoted my life to Pierre Trudeau and our beautiful children.

I grew up in a family that was aware of the consequences of diabetes.

I have family that are diabetic and I've seen the hell it's put them through and I've told myself, I'm not going down like that.

My mom was diagnosed at the age of 46 with ovarian cancer.

My mom was diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian cancer when she was 47.

My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 13 and it was something we weren't really aware of as a family.

My dad was diagnosed with cancer, so we ended up burying him a year to the day that he was diagnosed.