Quotes about "Family & Parenting"

When you're young, you don't have much sense. You don't have any reasoning power. You don't have any ability to take a blow, an insult, a hurt in the right way. There is no way a child can do that. All a child can do is feel the pang of it, the heartache of it. ”

We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us. ”

All my family is average-sized, apart from me. I didn't really think about my size until I got older, a few years before high school. It had never really fazed me that much. ”

I told my family, 'If I get out of line, just kick my butt.' The last thing that I want is to change. ”

I'm a late riser by my family's standards. Sleeping is a luxury because since I was young, I woke up very early to go ice-skating. So I'm really not a morning girl. ”

My childhood bedroom - if childhood could be about ten years old - had a bed which was under windows which faced north. At about age 10, I started watching the stars just move through the night. ”

My only real advice to Oscar nominees is, 'If you haven't actually seen a competitor's film, don't fib and say you have and blow smoke up their wahooziewhatsits.' Always best to be frank and tell them the truth. ”

I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children. ”

I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have. ”

I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith. ”