Family Quotes

You grow up a certain way, and you make decisions within your family, but then you go to college, and the decisions become harder. You are away from home, from the influence of your parents, dealing with peer pressure. There's a lot of stuff that goes on in college.

Benjamin Watson
- Up
- Home
- Parents
I'm the first person in my family to play poker.

Chris Moneymaker
- Family

There are three lessons in philanthropy - one, involve the family, especially the spouse. She can be a remarkable driver of your initiative. Two, you need to build an institution, and you need to scale it up. Choose a leader for philanthropy whom you trust. Three, philanthropy needs patience, tenacity and time.

Azim Premji
- Up
- Time
- She
When I decided to become a Christian and decided to change my life and just totally quit screwing up, it was like, 'Wow, why didn't I do this before?' No hiding anything. I just felt so much better, not only about myself, but my future, my family. It was awesome, and it didn't take me long to realize that.

Jim Kelly
- Life
- Up
- Long
I love art. My sister is an artist and my mother is a painter, so it is very much in the family. I haven't ever wanted to be a fine artist myself - my sister robbed me of my artistic talent, I think.

Douglas Booth
- Art
- Mother
- Sister
When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn't afford them. Instead, we stayed in our small rural West Texas town, and my parents took us to cemeteries.

Jenny Lawson
- Parents
- Small
- Texas
I'd had to cope with a lot of death and illness in my family from a young age, and that maybe gave me a bleak outlook on the world.

Bernard Sumner Joy Division
- World
- Age
- Death
A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

Dwight L. Moody
- Live
- Family
- Christian