Family Setting Quotes

I lived with my mom and sister, so I'm more used to dealing with women.

Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.

My mythic version of America is very much about parents and children, and in my experience, the suburban setting is where that particular drama plays out. Which isn't to say that there aren't parents and children in cities or on farms. I just don't know them.

Rather than pinpointing any particular part of the country as a place where the family lives, I would prefer to have readers think we live just down the street from their own home.

I use myself as a template for my comedy. So first my background as a Muslim man, my being a doctor, I talk about my family quite a lot, my kids. Anything that resonates with me I talk about. The important thing is it should be able to work in a family setting.

The boy I just kissed is talking to my father. The boy I want to kiss again is waiting for my mother to serve pancakes. I must fight the urge to freak.

In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla.

I can remember sitting at the piano. My sister was playing, and my brother was singing something, and I said, 'I want to try that.'

I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on stage, it's a constant.

Children are meant to understand compassion and comfort because they have received compassion and comfort - and this should be in the family setting. A family should be a place where comfort is experienced and understood, so that the people are prepared to give comfort to others.