John Galsworthy Quotes

Having lost both my parents as a teenager, family is so important to me, and I cherish my time with my children and grandchildren. I have four children, and they all became lawyers - as I was myself before I got into music.

I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

My mother was very family-oriented. And I do love being with my children.

I have a tight-knit Southern family.

In a way, our family is our modern identity.

I'd just like to carry on in Dad's footsteps. I think that Dad's spirit and passion lives in every single one of us.

I like stories that affect families.

My aunts told wonderful stories. Not to me, but to each other. We had a very strong family. My mother's sisters loved each other intensely. The uncles loved each other intensely.

Families are endlessly fascinating. We all have one, and they have a great impact on who we are and what we do - Freudian as that is.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live.

I want my kids to live their life with great family memories that they can pass on to their children.

As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.

Each father wants their sons to be just like them, really.

Although I never married, my brother fortunately did, and I have had the pleasure of watching his three sons and daughter grow up. Several of them now have children of their own. We have been a close-knit family, although often separated by distance, and have shared each other's happiness, sorrows, and aspirations.

I have an enormous family because I'm from Montreal and my family's Catholic, so my dad has eight siblings and they all have kids and we all grew up in the same property on weekends and summers.

My father was a huge influence on me.

Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins.

I wanted to grow up to be just like my father.

When I look at my family, that's all life means, right there.

I'm attracted to stories that deal with the family and what it's like to be a member of that family, whether it's together or apart, given the pressures that are put on it by the outside world.

Just to have that sense of family, it gives you something that you know you need to take care of for the rest of your life. People gave it to him, and he passed it on to us.

I remember, as a child, a particular groan that my father would sound when he crawled from the bed in the morning. I hear the same groan now, precisely, every morning, when I emerge from my own lair. It's more than an expression of physical weariness - it's an aching of the soul. Even the groans get passed down.

Finally, I do not believe that we should punish American families who have worked diligently to provide for themselves and want to pass along their success to their children and grandchildren.

Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.