Quotes about Family

“I don't want to let my guard down and feel too comfortable. If you become complacent, you start feeling entitled. I'm ready to go dig ditches if I have to. Whatever I gotta do to provide for my family. Whatever I gotta do to make sure that I do the best possible job at whatever wonderful opportunities I've been handed.”

“First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.”

“It's the uncertainty, the challenge and the willingness to put it all on the line that draws a lot of people to climb mountains. That can also apply to a lot of other challenges in life, whether it's running for office, starting a family, going to grad school or taking all of your cash and assets and starting a business.”

“I'm from a working-class family. We didn't have a lot, but we had the arts. You're talking to a guy who is making a living at doing what he loves doing - acting, singing and dancing. So any career ups and downs were not that significant to me; the only things that really powerfully impinged on me were my losses, and there were many in my life.”

“My family is basically Gypsies - for real.”

“I was researching my family tree, and I was deeply hoping I was going to turn out to be Eastern European, but I'm not.”

“A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.”

“I was raised Catholic in a very religious family.”

“I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved to the United States the year after I was born. They moved into an all-white neighborhood, where the previous black family had a cross burned on their lawn.”

“My only concern is playing. Everything else, my family looks after. In our house, everyone has a job, and my job in our house is to play football.”

“I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.”

“You know, we're very private, and I think that we really separate and try to keep our privacy to ourselves. There's things that people assume a lot of times, and we understand that people are interested, but we really try to keep our family life private as much as we can.”

“I'm very lucky to have a strong support system with my friends and my family. They have kept me grounded.”

“The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.”

“As a mom, spending quality time on the water with my family is a simple and relaxing way to unplug.”

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”

“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.”

“Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.”

“There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots, the other is wings.”

“It's like being a gym rat, but you're a theater rat, and then that becomes your fraternity house. That becomes your extended family.”

“"Children are not things to be molded, but people to be unfolded."”