Family Quotes
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I think we have lost sight of something of importance, something which has always been at the heart of Conservatism which is the family - functioning as a family unit with legal rights and responsibilities and being able to make its choices and let its children grow strong.
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Recognizing chronic sadness may encourage someone to reach out to a friend, family member, or counselor rather than concealing the distress.
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Leaving America means renouncing your citizenship, moving out of the country and leaving family and friends behind. You can retain your citizenship if you like, but you'll still be away from loved ones and still be paying taxes. You lose all the good stuff about America and have to keep all the bad stuff.
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I didn't have any idea of what I was getting into by going away to college. And I was scared. I was scared of failing. I was scared of it not being for me because I was going to be one of the first people in my family to go off to college.
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Love is my family and friends. That close – knit circle that sticks by you through the years and through it all.
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Nobody's perfect and I don't want to try and portray that but I'm genuinely doing the best I can out here; trying to support my family the best that I can, trying to make them proud and happy and everybody having the best life they can live. I'm trying to provide a better life for them than I had.
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Nurturing an inclusive culture begins in the family. Home is the first place to foster openness and a culture of inclusion.
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I love him dearly. On issues of economics and … family values, there's nobody that I know that's stronger.
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Every gay person must come out. As difficult as it is, you must tell your immediate family. You must tell your relatives. You must tell your friends if indeed they are your friends. You must tell the people you work with. You must tell the people in the stores you shop in. Once they realize that we are indeed their children, that we are indeed everywhere, every myth, every lie, every innuendo will be destroyed once and all. And once you do, you will feel so much better...
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Sometimes I play for the media, sometimes for the fans, sometimes for my sponsors, and sometimes it's for my family. Really, I play for everyone.
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It is not good not to have health insurance; that leaves the family very vulnerable.
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I'm really focused on my research almost 100 percent. That, and my family and kids.
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I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.
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No Latina woman would be called 'Ms.' - that's an invention of middle-class Anglo women. Latina women are proud to be called 'Mrs.' That simply means that we have a family.
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I believe since we’ve all been given free will, let’s use our will to let others be free. Gay and lesbian couples believe in commitment, family and love.
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We know that the way to decrease unplanned pregnancies and abortions is to make birth control and family planning services accessible and affordable, not micromanage the type of medical information and reproductive health counseling that women around the world receive.
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Modern women like to think we invented the idea of balancing work and family but women have always done it.
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We started the family Bible after slavery was abolished. My great-grandmother remembered the Bible being started, which meant that she was a slave as a young girl. When she died, the Bible was at least 105 years old, so she must have been nearly 115 years old. Her daughter, my grandmother, died at 97, and her husband at 98.
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We packed up all the worldly possessions we could carry with us and took the next flight to Hawaii from Washington. It took just about every cent my family had to our name just to pay the plane fare. When we arrived, we had about $15 left among us. We were really in pitiful shape. But we were together, and we were alive, and this was all that mattered.
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Eating well, being around the table with the family or friends or relatives - it doesn't get any better.
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When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way.
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Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from a medical family.
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I prefer Los Angeles just because I live there and my family's there. But I think New York is just kind of the center of the world.
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The situation with my family was in the '80s. We didn't have PSAs like this, we didn't have the Internet, we didn't have the means of communication that we have today, and we didn't have such a broad reach in terms of getting a message out. So of course I'm happy to be a part of that.
