Quotes About Family

I'm happy if everybody else is. I'm a big brother, the oldest. If you're happy and I'm not, I'm cool with that. If I'm happy and you're not, I'm sad.

My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that?

Home Economics stands for the ideal home life for today unhampered by the traditions of the past and the utilization of all the resources of modern science to improve home life.

My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.

I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science - for to fill your heart with love is enough!

I think, on the whole that scientists make slightly better husbands and fathers than most of us, and I admire them for it.

Garrett Hardin. Parenthood: Right or Privilege? Science Magazine.

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

To my deep mortification my father once said to me, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family."

My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.

It's actually very beautiful when you can't conceive on your own, you can actually go to the doctors and with science you can create a child.

None of us could choose our birth, but we could still chose our family, and only those who love you are your true family.

... You have to pull the feet to break the neck. They let the loved ones do it.

I'm going to see you now Papa… you better run...

All I was trying to do when they caught me was bury my mother in an unmarked grave.

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.

My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning.

Three things that always bring a smile to my face: making guacamole for my friends, getting pedicures with my mom, exploring an airport I've never been in.

My grief and my smile begin in your face, my son.

Smile at each other. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other- it doesn't matter who it is- and that will help to grow up in greater love for each other.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

My mom smiled at me. Her smile kind of hugged me.