My house is very traditional. And I love 'shabby chic.' It's a very homey-cosy vibe. We spend a lot of time in the kitchen, actually; maybe my kids will be doing their homework or that kind of thing when they get home from school. I love my kitchen. - Britney Spears
My mom is a wonderful woman. She's always been an inspiration to me, but having kids helped me make even more sense of my relationship with her. - Britney Spears
Recently I started to appreciate my body a bit more from before I had kids. But it completely changed, and I have had to work hard at getting it back to where it used to be.... I used to be obsessed with working out. - Britney Spears
Papa didn't cuss, he didn't raise a whole lot of fuss. But when we did wrong, Papa beat the hell out of us. - James Brown
Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that. - James Brown
I am truly multi-racial. I never knew my biological father. I've always had less information than I would have liked to have had. All I know from my mother is that I have connections to many different cultures. - Vin Diesel
My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core. - Vin Diesel
My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you. - Vin Diesel
The man who raised me is black. Culturally, he made me who I am. He was a theatre director, so he also guided me artistically. - Vin Diesel
The most important thing in life will always be family. The people right here, right now. - Vin Diesel
When you go to the movies with your whole family, it's a different experience. For some reason, it's something that you're all doing together and you take away something special in that. - Vin Diesel
I grew up in a family of storytellers, but Google has destroyed us because you can fact-check everything. We'd always like the stories to be a little better than they were. - George Clooney
My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise. - George Clooney
My father was and is a great journalist. Thirty years ago, I was studying broadcasting in college, and the problem was I wasn't nearly as good as my father. I wasn't as quick or as smart as my old man, and I realized it would be a long time before I was ever going to be, and I decided to do something else. - George Clooney
My parents were disappointed I didn't finish college, and they were really upset when I went to Hollywood to become an actor. I was a big disappointment to them. - George Clooney
One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves. - Gabe Newell
Its gotten a little slower this last year since I got a little baby. I lost my Sundays. - John Carmack
I live in a sort of insular world. It's mostly my family, my house, staying home and working. - Mark Hamill
At a certain point in my early twenties, my mother started to become worried about my obviously ever-increasing drug ingestion. So she ended up doing what any concerned parent would do. She called Cary Grant. - Carrie Fischer
Even my parents sort of went along with the assumption that they were a good couple, but they probably weren't a very good couple. - Carrie Fischer
He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable. - Carrie Fischer
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