My Family Quotes

I never looked at music as a serious ven­ture. There was very little encouragement from my family. I didn't have anybody to entertain, so it was hard to get motivated.

My family were all musicians. I really wasn't interested in school or anything.

You're trying to get a comfort zone with the parents. You want the family to feel comfortable with me in charge of their son.

I like to spend time with my family - that's the most important thing in my life.

Disney was a family film studio and I was supposed to be their young, leading man. After they found out I was involved with some guy, that was the end of Disney.

Imagine how frustrating it is, being completely locked up and watching your family leave, your wife and children, and not being able to do anything about it.

I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age, struggling on a book around a full-time job and family.

After meeting the family, they really felt like a sitcom family, ... I thought it would be cool if we did a reality show, but told it with the visual language of a sitcom format.

Having a family that loves books and loves to read has always created a common ground for communication.

The further I get away from coaching, the more I know I made the right decision. You almost forget how wonderful family life is.

God established the family as the foundation of civilization.

My mother's whole family had been from the theater, really. Because I grew up in Hollywood, I wasn't that interested in Hollywood. But the New York theater was completely exotic and fabulous to me.

My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad's dad. So my dad has an appreciation for the arts, and he let me choose my own path.

We are a very crafty family.

I need to work to support my family.

It's much harder to give up on family.Deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake.

One ought to have the right to have a secret and to spring it as a surprise. But if you live inside a family you have neither.

My mom would leave her job, and there would be throngs of people screaming and banging on our car. I come from a very private family, but I was born into a public family.

Sometimes my family thinks I've made my childhood a bit more Dickensian than it was, and it probably wasn't all that bad. But I was uncomfortable as a kid.

A stand-up's job is to hold the mirror up to society and to look at what we're afraid of. That's why we had shows like 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons.' We made fun of ourselves then.

I'm around my kids every day. I'm regular. We're a regular family. My wife cooks, she washes clothes, I read books, I pump my own gas, I get my own hair cut.

My family absolutely comes first, and I don't mean that in a Pollyanna way. It's the focus of my life because it's what makes me happy.

When something's got to give, family always wins. I couldn't live with myself if it was the other way.

Outside the ring I work hard when I train and I spend as much time as I can with my family when I'm not training.

If the police believed that they were planning any form of resistance against the state, then you were just gone. Nobody knew where you were, and you just hoped to see that family member again.

I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition.

I've had a lot of cognitive behavioural therapy, and am having a family now.

I became a millionaire overnight by signing a piece of paper. I made more money in that one second than my entire family did in their lifetime.

I take pride in my life-my wife, my family. I try my best not to have football define the person that I am.

Canada, by others in the global family, is, for some reason, taken seriously. They have about 30 million people. They have some natural resources.

My lifestyle got so disruptive to my family that my parents had no choice but to say, "You can't live here any longer if you're going to live this way." So, I was thrilled about it - thrilled!

Take a look at my family, a different father every weekend.

I wanna piss on his head, I want his family dead.

Born through hard times, Ghetto child of mine. I wonder if you have to suffer for your father's crimes.

I enjoy just being around my family and my loved ones. It's just the simple things.

I was a good student. My mom is a teacher, and her side of the family is all teachers. She put a big emphasis on getting good grades.

My family was all musicians. We jam all the time.

Are You Living or Just Existing?" -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

You can't build your life around hurts from the past" -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

When I'm at my grandparents', I know I literally have to do nothing but relax, enjoy myself, and enjoy my family members' company.

I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.

I loved Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi. Its about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.

Responsibility is something higher than my family, my country, my firm, my success. Responsibility to the order of Being, where, and only where, they will be properly judged.

My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.

I'm the first one in my family born with all my rights. I'm a ninth generation American.

I started working in music very young, I was raised by a family of musicians and performers, so I guess it was more second nature than making an actual decision.

I have a family and two cats; I get up with my kids early in the morning.

"I'll be your family now," he says.

Yes," I say. "Three of these flying birds." I touch my collarbone, marking the path of their flight - toward my heart. One for each member of the family I left behind.

My dear girl. I am his family. I am permanent. You are only temporary.