Quotes About Family

If I'm diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle of family because their family is so despondent.

Shortly before I turned 37 and my older daughter turned 3, I was diagnosed with breast cancer: stage III of IV.

My mom was actually diagnosed with breast cancer when I was five.

My husband Don's mother, Denise, was diagnosed with cancer, and she was given eight months to live. We decided to go and stay there and help live her days with her, 'cause you don't get those chances again, right?

Live today as if you don't have tomorrow: my husband was diagnosed and killed by cancer within six months.

When I was diagnosed with cancer at age 22, I learned just how much cancer affects families when it affects individuals.

I want to say that since my dad has been diagnosed, I really feel like I understand the meaning of life, and it is not how you die: it is how you live.

It was a huge shock when my mum was diagnosed. She was 49 when she found a lump in one of her breasts and sensed something was wrong. At the time, we did a breast cancer campaign together. I still do a lot of charity runs.

When everything kind of hit the fan, my dad married Jo Anne, and suddenly there were five kids from the Ripleys and five kids from the Doughertys. Then my dad and Joanne had a baby. I usually have to make a diagram.

There's nothing wrong with anybody from any other country having a perspective on the British royal family. It would be interesting. But I just doubt that they would get the dialogue right.

I grew up in a home where diamonds were the subject.

My brother, he love the diamonds, and he really got me into diamonds.

I never really saw my mom as Diana Ross. My mom was my mom.

I think for Diana, she came to the royal family thinking that it would be a family, that it would be exciting, because people would know who she was maybe. I know she was marrying a prince, but I think she genuinely thought that there would be a support system.

As any parent knows, sharing diaper duty sure beats changing them all yourself.

I didn't live the lifestyle of the rich and famous. My diapers were nappy cloth. I didn't live in a big house.

I get to see my baby's development. I get to change diapers, I get to be a real father, something that I didn't have growing up.

With two little boys in diapers, I had to keep it simple if I were going to have a life at all.

When we were shooting 'Oz,' my wife was doing 'Beauty and the Beast' on Broadway, singing and dancing. It was an interesting dichotomy in our house.

I told myself at some point that I've got to hold it down for my family. I can't let work and the check and the money dictate decisions that I truly want to make.

My mama loved me more than anybody ever did.

My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong.

Both my parents died on the young side. My father was 45, and my mother was 61, so cancer's affected me in a big way.

My own child, one of them, died of AIDS. A brilliant boy.