Family Quotes

"Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday."

"My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection."

"Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am."

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."

"All happy families are like one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

"I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes."

"Don't ever criticize yourself. Don't go around all day long thinking, 'I'm unattractive, I'm slow, I'm not as smart as my brother.' God wasn't having a bad day when he made you... If you don't love yourself in the right way, you can't love your neighbour. You can't be as good as you are supposed to be."

"I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course."

"As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you."

"But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust."

"Family is the one thing that is definitely not disposable."

"My older sister is bossy, my brother is a stirrer and me - well, I am perfect!"

"My big sister Melissa, is such a stud and my little sister Suzanna, has always had a perfect body and big blue eyes. We were a force."

"I rebelled by not getting straight A's and not following the path that my elder sister did. She was valedictorian and is very exemplary in her way. I look a lot like her, so I just had to do the opposite. Not that I got bad grades, but I was all about performance and just finding any way that I could to be involved in any kind of production."

"No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful."

"My parents are very competitive, so we are very competitive as kids. But it's a good kind of competition; it's not a jealousy. You always want to do your best, and if it can't be you, you want it to be your brother or your sister, you know what I mean?"

"Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law."

"Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law."

"Fidelity is the sister of justice."

"What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin."