Family Quotes
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'Lucky Us' ends with a description of a photograph of the novel's fictional family. I could never get enough of my own family photo albums.
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I work six months and get three or four with the family. I've stopped racing to get to the red light.
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We are extremely proud of our 'ABC funny' brand. We think that we have a very distinctive brand of family comedies.
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The two most important things is, one, the music in my life, and the family. It's somehow connected because music is about human beings, about love, about hate, about everything that happens in life.
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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.
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I was surrounded by music in my family, surrounded by people who sang songs - every single person I knew as a child growing up had one, two, three songs they knew from start to finish.
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If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.
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If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you're not going to be happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.
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It makes no difference to my family where one comes from as long as we make each other happy. They are pretty cool like that.
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Opening a family-style restaurant with comfort food like mac 'n' cheese, ribs and burgers has always been my dream.
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Early on, my family really made me love who I was and what I looked like.
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Some twins feel like they need to compare themselves to each other, but we're not that way. That's because of my parents, though, and having six kids in the family.
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People want to act like they know celebrities. They want to see pictures. They want to know where you're going. They want to hear you talk about your family.
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Nothing was planned in my career. I just went with the flow and took everything that came to me. Selling potato chips was obvious, as it was a family business. When friends suggested I should try theatre, I gave it a shot. Then I did a lot of advertisements, and then movies happened.
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My father firmly embraced the Ralph Kramden philosophy: he was king of his Levittown castle. He worked hard, and his family deferred to his wishes. Except me. I did not defer and was disciplined accordingly.
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I'm from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and my family is Punjabi.
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Would we be a better society if we made marriage simply a private contract between two individuals, with no wider implications of kinship and family? I do not believe that we would.
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I'm not from a music family at all.
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I was only 21 when I bought a five-bedroom detached house in Stoke-on-Trent that was way outside of my financial status in life. I did it by borrowing money from my family and the bank, taking out a huge mortgage.
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My kids are obviously growing up very privileged, but I want them to have a servant's heart. We do community service as a family, and I also call them out on things like getting impatient when they stand in line - because they hardly ever have to. But that's just the reality of what they were born into.
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Yes, it is long past time we get serious about tackling the nation's ever-growing deficits. But the average American family drawn into serious debt cannot just threaten to stiff its creditors. It must cut its spending in the future, but also take responsibility for the debt incurred in the past.
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We've never had nannies. We've had great grandparents, great support from family, and the kids have been on every set: they've seen me play Gollum, King Kong, Captain Haddock, the lot. They totally get it, and they want to go into the business. Ruby, my daughter, is very keen to become an actress.
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I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work.
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It's important that people understand that 'Strong Island' is just as much about this claim of reasonable fear and our need to interrogate reasonable fear as it is about my family's grief.
