Quotes About Family

A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

Guns don't kill people, dads with daughters do.

We are the Ovaltineys, Little [or Happy] girls and boys.

The difference between in-laws and outlaws? Outlaws are wanted.

You trust your mother, but you cut the cards.

Lizzie Borden took an ax And gave her mother forty whacks; When she saw what she had done She gave her father forty-one!

My father and my mother were professional footballers and have also been coaches.

My mum and dad are both sportspeople and know what's it all about. They know it's hard work, but they also know what it takes to become a professional athlete. I don't think - without their help, I wouldn't have got this far.

I like to think that I'm a family man first and a professional athlete second.

I always told my dad I'd play professional football.

If I'm having problems, I speak to my older brother, who used to play professional football.

I always watched professional football and my father played at an amateur level, but I didn't think I wanted to become a pro.

The fact that a woman is attached to her professional life should not prevent her from being a mother.

To me, my mother is very beautiful and the epitome of a woman. She knows how to balance a busy professional life with family life.

After chatting happily to people all morning in my professional life, I prefer to spend quiet nights in, punctuated only by the occasional grunted demand for food from a passing teenager.

I don't hope for anything. Not only in my professional life, but in my family life also. My total lifestyle is like that.

My mom actively did not want me to play professionally.

My father happened to be a doctor, and though I loved and idealized him privately, professionally I never had any use for him or anyone connected with that science.

Being a part of 'Chasing Life' has been the greatest thing I've done, both personally and professionally.

I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mum, too, but there were areas that she and I did not share. So his loss to me was huge, personally and professionally. He believed in me, not just as a father, but as a director, and that always meant a lot.

I grew up in a family of actors. I grew up onstage. The choice for me wasn't, 'Do I want to be an actor or not?' I always felt like that's just ingrained in you, the need to perform. The choice was, 'Do you want to do this professionally or not?'

My parents were just as smart as I am, just as hard working if not harder; I think my father and grandfather were probably better men, yet I've been able to accomplish things professionally that they were not able to.

I think for everything that people say about me as a person today - whether it's about being disciplined and grounded or whatever - I think a lot of it is a credit to my father, who has been a massive influence in my life both professionally and personally.

Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I still wanted to play baseball professionally. But the family wanted me to go to college, and I guess I agreed with them, or else I would have accepted some of the offers I got.