Family

The miracle of children is that we just don’t know how they will change or who they will become.

Understanding anyone begins with the person's family history and the culture he or she is a part of.

Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.

My husband lost a lot of weight on a new diet and I resent it. It's simple he just doesn't eat when I'm talking.

She realized that she had naïvely believed that the workings of the world revolved around her and her family. Never before had she acknowledged that somebody else’s life might alter hers.

I'm about caring, I'm about people, and I'm about entertaining people. I'm a family man. A husband. A father. I've been a lot of other things over the years, which we don't really want to talk about.

There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked doors, there are usually high emotions running.

Probably the earliest memories for me would be going to restaurants with my family.

Daddy,' I whispered, feeling my own breath hitch in my throat. 'I love you.'Just when I was sure he was asleep, the one corner of his mouth lifted in a smile. 'I knew that,' he murmured. 'Always knew that.

Motherhood was a twenty-four-hour-a-day, all-encompassing job. It was the hardest job I ever had. Everything that happened to you [her child] happened to me. I had once heard children described in a novel as 'hostages to fortune' and certainly my happiness depended on yours.

I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'.

My parents got me a sewing machine for Christmas during my senior year of high school. I made three pieces of clothing and had a fashion show at the end of the year, where we had to wear the clothes that we made. I took it to a whole new level; I made all my friends clothes.

Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.

It's tough growing up where I grew up. My family is very small and really tight. Just being around the neighborhood, my brothers were always around. I didn't want to be in any trouble because I knew my mom or brothers would find out. I didn't want to hurt their feelings. I just tried to do everything right.

Six nervous wives at the sink, each quiet as a queen on a chessboard.

Kid's books should be just as good as any other books. No. They should be held to a *higher* standard than other literature for the same reason that we take extra care with children's food.The fact is, what you feed your kids is important, and that includes what they put in their heads as well as what they put in their bellies.

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

For a long time, I was trapped in this struggle with my emotions about the single person in the world who was my family.

I think a dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.