My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread – works all the time. I think I’ve been eating pasta for 26 years.

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they’re part of a family, not just a tour.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

The way I try to represent my family and coaches, I think all are characteristics the league aspires to portray. That’s just who I am.

It’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.

When I’m writing, I don’t feel neurotic. So it’s better for the family if I’m working.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time – the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

My kids are the funniest two human beings there are.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

Before I was born, my father told my mother, ‚If it’s a boy, he’s going to be a scientist.‘

I want to – more than anything – to create a moment that people will never forget. Not for me, but for themselves. That’s what I remember about great Super Bowl performances in the past, when you really get lost in the moment with your family.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays… and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

There’s a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

I don’t know if I officially proofread my father’s book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

I am the most unselfish chef in Britain today.

When I’m around the kids I feel like I act the most grown-up just because you’re supposed to. And I say things, like every other day, that remind me of my own parents.

I think that’s something that all mothers have to deal with, especially single mothers. We work, and we have to leave the kids behind. And I think that’s one of the reasons that we, not only as women but as families, we have to advocate for early childhood education for all of our children.

Too many people treat parenting like it’s the 20th item on their to-do list.

All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

Anyone who’s a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: ‚Is it good? Does it give pleasure?‘

Married or single, you sisters possess distinctive capabilities and special intuition you have received as gifts from God. We brethren cannot duplicate your unique influence.

I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother’s kitchen. If I don’t have time to cook, I’ll just read a cookbook.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

You can call me the bad boy chef all you want. I’m not going to freak out about it. I’m not that bad. I’m certainly not a boy, and it’s been a while since I’ve been a chef.

People have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.