Quotes About Relationships

My dad has coached a long time, so there aren't too many conversations in my family that haven't centered around basketball.

My family, you know, are all still, you know, very close. We're all still very close. Mom and Daddy are still alive. So, what more can you ask for? Your kids are healthy.

My parents divorced, and I didn't have much of a daddy growing up.

I'd like to play Matt Damon's daddy. He's a wonderful actor, I really admire him, and I'd like to play his dad one day.

My mother died when I was two years old; that's why I have so many daddy issues. And that's why my relationship with my dad is so strong.

I'm a daddy first; I'm a husband, and I'm a lover of God and people.

My mom had did a wonderful job of giving me two great dads: I had a biological and non-biological dad.

It's important that dads take the opportunity to develop relationships with their children.

I have had the same friends since college, although as time has gone on, the daily nature of those relationships has changed, such that it is not daily at all.

I connect with people on a daily basis.

My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.

My parents getting divorced gave me the opportunity to play for my granddad and to meet my wife. I fell in the draft but I ended up in Dallas.

Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.

When people speak disparagingly about others, they are really damaging themselves.

Acting is really a give-and-take; it's a dance.

When rooted, you observe how systems actually affect people.

As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties.

When men's lives become extremely hard, women learn how to deal with them and assist them but also develop quiet systems of coping and managing.

When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.

You gotta remember: we're musicians... we're just crazy people who can't get along sometimes. I've definitely come to the table with my knife in my pocket a couple of times; you know how it is. It's part of being human. Now add fame and money and all that rock and roll craziness to it - we're lucky we don't eat each other in this industry!

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it's a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

I've always thought with relationships, that it's more about what you bring to the table than what you're going to get from it. It's very nice if you sit down and the cake appears. But if you go to the table expecting cake, then it's not so good.

People love having a home. People love going to their house and sleeping in their bedroom and having a conversation around the dinner table. You don't particularly think of that conversation as a private conversation; you just think of it as something that happened in your home.

It's important for me who is at the table with me; the moment when everyone speaks to each other and everyone listens. If there's good food, it's much better.