Family

I am waiting for you in the living room... The very pink living room. I do hope that when we acquire a home of our own, after this nonsense has passed, you will not insist on bathing the entire space in shades of bubble gum.

I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys from single-parent homes. I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.

We are sisters. We are brothers. We are family.

A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter.

No matter how old a mother is she still watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.

I know you think I should be home taking care of my family. That maybe I’d be distracted or I wouldn’t be as committed as the rest of you, but who’s more committed: the person with something to lose, or the people who’ve got nothing left?

Embroidery?' I sucked at embroidery. Aunt Hyacinth had tried to teach me, but we'd both given it up as a lost cause.Lucy, strangely, had picked it up really quickly and embroidered a tapestry of Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow for my last birthday.

He was a loving father, but he did his loving in private. Quietly, he would tell his daughter to drive safely. On her wedding day, when he walked her down the aisle, he'd whisper the words to her. But today, above the noise, he would have to shout it.

Love your children, for they are the seeds that will make this city bloom.

To us family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I went to the library and got this whole pile of books. I'd love to say it all turned out great. It didn't. But, sort of, from that point on, whenever there was serious cooking at home, I was the one who did it.

Our lives speak loudly to those around us, especially the children in our home.

My dad is the nicest guy you'll ever meet, and the easiest going.

Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.

Mrs. Bird smiled at me as I arrived at her side. 'They can surprise us, can't they, our parents? The things they got up to before we were born.'Yes,' I said. 'Almost like they were real people once.

We decided to become a society of women, a club to make sure women were protected. The club was something important back then. Not like it is today.

A will can save one’s family from being put into a quagmired pit of legal conundrum, in case of death (which may even be untimely).

Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood.