My Family Quotes

My kid asked if he could borrow ten dollars. When I only gave him five dollars he said "Okay since you owe me the other five dollars we'll call it even."

Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.

I love being a great-grandparent but what I hate is being the the mother of a grandparent.

I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi Pavarotti DiMaggio Valentino De Niro Giuliani. . .

A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents.

I've just been to a debutant ball where all the girls were wearing low-cut gowns. It's clear why they're called coming out parties.

When I reprimanded my son for hair like Michael Jackson he said: "I don't see the problem you wear yours like Michael Jordan."

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million-dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

Keep in mind ... to a dog you are family to a cat you are staff.

None but a mule denies his family.

You leave home to seek your fortune and when you get it you go home and share it with your family.

Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved?

My darling little girl-child after such a long and troublesome waiting I now have you in my arms. I am alone no more I have my baby.

There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they were born and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time any place more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

I believe that we are always attracted to what we need most an instinct leading us towards the persons who are to open new vistas in our lives and fill them with new knowledge.

If you bungle raising your children I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.

The presidency is temporary-but the family is permanent.

God gave us our relatives thank God we can choose our friends.

It seems to me that since I've had children I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while but when I did write I had more of a self to speak from.

All love that has not friendship for its base is like a mansion built upon the sand.

You never turn away family, no matter how f***ed up they are.

Where everyone knows your name, and a safe place to raise a family.

I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others.

Thank God, I have the opportunity to do what I love, which is my family and work on a business and try and make it the best that it can be.

For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.

The way it works in our family is, it's the family business. Much like in the Mafia. Every child is given the opportunity to act at a young age and to learn what it's like to be in the business.

My kids - even though it's a family business - they don't even know what day or time 'Survivor' is even on. They just know it's on TiVo.

I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.

If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.

Spend some time this weekend on home improvement improve your attitude toward your family.

People come up to me and say somebody in their family has cancer, and we appreciate what you do, and we appreciate your fight, and don't give up, we love your attitude.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

'Shake It Up' definitely teaches kids about the importance of reaching for your dreams and setting high goals. It also teaches great lessons about friendship and family.

You really can have your dreams and at the same time have a family. But it has to be a really deliberate practice.

We would not have been a successful family without my father and stepfather, who were working-class men with better dreams for their children. We just wore them out.

I've been interested in dreams myself for a long time, and it's a big part of the Indian tradition, especially where I was brought up in Calcutta in my family, which is quite traditional.

I have five boys in the family, and it's constant competition, sport, humor, and practical jokes.

My family is pretty funny. My mother is British, so she's got a very dry sense of humor. That's where I got that from.

I came from a dysfunctional family - very dysfunctional. And my father used to find great humor in throwing me down the stairs.

Most of the people in my family were pretty funny. Everyone had a good sense of humor. I came to California right after college, wanting to be a musician.

My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes and doing skits and things.

I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult, and there was a lot of humor. None of it was painless humor. All of it was at someone else's expense. It was kind of always about power.

My story as an artist has been about trial and error. It's been about artist development, character building, struggle, happiness and failure, family, and music.

I love spending time with my friends and family. The simplest things in life give me the most pleasure: cooking a good meal, enjoying my friends.

I absolutely love spending time with my family.

Going home, spending time with the family, I feel they're my friends as well, all of them. I look forward to meeting any one of them for a coffee, and when we all get together, I just love it.

I love holidays. It's such a wonderful time for the whole family to be together and not have to worry about schedules and that kind of thing.

'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot of ideas that we have about family and about parenting.