Family Quotes
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Most importantly, I realize the value of the other people - the extended family - the other people within my community, my cultures: my teachers and the other people I call Auntie, Uncle, Godfather, Godbrother, whatever. These are people who pulled you in and made you part of their lives and their homes.
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I live in a sort of insular world. It's mostly my family, my house, staying home and working.
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Nobody in my family plays music professionally, but I definitely grew up around the culture of when my parents got together, as well as a lot of eating and drinking going on, they would also sing - they sat around in a circle, and everyone had a party piece.
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I love everything about the holidays: the decorations, the parties, and spending time with friends and family. What I love most is that feeling of giving back. Every bit counts.
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We're a very close family and we're a very real family, and I think every real family has real problems.
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Philip's story is the most interesting in the royal family - his background is the opposite of what you'd think. Everyone has this idea that Philip is this bumbling, deliberately posh sort of man who says the wrong thing.
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When you go in and guest-star on a TV show, they already have their family - everybody pretty much knows everybody, and everyone sort of has that base already formed.
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It's a funny thing when you know someone and you meet their siblings - you get so much a sense of who they are because when you can recognize similar traits in the family, you understand exactly why they are the way they are.
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Every single kid in my group of friends at school was from a single-parent family.
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My family emigrated to the U.S. after the Iranian revolution in 1978.
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Look at what goes on in our heads when we think about our family or we think about sex. There are things in there that you'd never really say to anybody. You're even ashamed to think it yourself.
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My grandmother always taught me, 'If you don't have a home, family, and church, you don't have anything.'
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My time is focused on family and work. I need to find a way to spend more time with my friends - and cycling.
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Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.
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There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.
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I'm the oldest in my family and do play piano.
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You can really examine the suffering and consequences that happen when there's a loss in a family.
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The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.
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When I was in high school, I used to have breakfast with my grandpa every morning. He instilled a lot of values in me: hard work, loyalty. He grew up during the Great Depression in Philly in poverty - he didn't have enough to eat as a kid. Sometimes his family would get kicked out of their apartment because they couldn't pay the rent.
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It's the boring things that mean a lot to me. I enjoy taking my sisters to eat. Or sitting watching TV with my family.
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My family - my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren, my great-grandchildren, all of them - are the most important thing in the world to me.
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I'm lucky in that I have close friends and family and my agent to advise me.
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They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family.
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The study of music was a family interest.
