Family Quotes
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Earliest musical memory is probably being scared stiff with my family's band as a youngster on stage playing the conga drums.
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I was raised in Mississippi, in a family and a community that identified as black, and I have the stories and the experiences to go with it. One of my great-great grandfathers was killed by a gang of white Prohibition patrollers.
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There's nothing glorious about war. There's nothing glorious about holding your friends in your arms and watching them die. There's nothing glorious about having to leave your home for 6 to 8 months while your family's back here and you're away.
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I grew up in a single-wide, three-bedroom mobile home with my family. And now I see them, like, half a dozen times a year. Figuring out how to come home and talk to them again and feel like myself has probably been the greatest challenge.
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I know some people say it's not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it's always worked so well for me.
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It is imperative to personal peace and family harmony that we recognize that even our service in the Church should never become a means of neglecting our more eternal personal and family responsibilities.
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I spend a lot of time in L.A., and I think it would probably be easier if I lived there work wise, but there's no city like London, there is so much going on. I can jump on the Tube and be anywhere in 20 minutes, and all my friends and family are here and I'm not prepared to give that up.
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In my family, we let our boys have a say in what veggie side they want for dinner that night. We list off a handful of options and get them excited about helping to plan the dinner menu. They're much more inclined to finish their plates when they've helped decide what goes on them.
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It's a good harsh reality, because my family keeps me very grounded.
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I think it's very important to have the stewardship of a company by a family member.
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I'd like my children to learn that anything is possible if you put your mind to it, and that when you make a decision to do something like pursuing the Olympics, like I have, it needs to be a family affair.
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A two-parent family based on love and commitment can be a wonderful thing, but historically speaking the "two-parent paradigm" has left an extraordinary amount of room for economic inequality, violence and male dominance.
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I'm homesick all the time. I miss my animals. I miss my family. I miss my friends.
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I am an avid hunter and marksman, and I will not hesitate to shoot anyone who has myself or family in fear for our lives.
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I'm albino, my family is white, but I was really raised, and taught my important life lessons, by the black community.
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I think that for me, it's God, family and Yahoo - in that order.
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We were a Seuss family. As a child, I read almost all of his books, but the one I loved best was 'The Lorax.'
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When it comes to politics, we have an internal glass ceiling. We stand as good a chance as a man to win a political race, but women don't want to run at the same rate as men do. People point to the work-family balance issue, but I think it's much more than that. Many women don't have children, or have children who are no longer at home. There are some deeper psychological and emotional issues in play, like the fact that many of us feel like the embarrassment, humiliation and personal demonization in politics are simply more than our hearts can take. What stops us is fear.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Personal differences, musical differences, business differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family.
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The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.
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Surrounded by all the members of my dear family, enjoying the affection of numerous friends, who have never abandoned me, and possessing a sufficient share of all that contributes to make life agreeable, I lift my grateful eyes towards the Supreme Being and feel that I am happy.
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Fortunately, I grew up in a traditional family where questioning was encouraged, particularly by my pandit grandfather. We are all voracious readers, seeking knowledge. I learn a lot from discussions with my wife, siblings and parents.
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Disorder in society is the result of disorder in the family.
