Family Quotes
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In 2009, for the first time in history, more than half the world’s population lived in cities. In a time when family, friends and co-workers are a call, text, or email away, 3.3 billion people on this planet still choose to crowd together in skyscrapers, high-rises, subways and buses. Not too long ago, it looked like our cities were dying, but in fact they boldly threw themselves into the information age, adapting and evolving to become the gateways to a globalised and interconnected world. Now more than ever, the well-being of human society depends upon our knowledge of how the city lives and breathes.
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My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
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History is very much bound up in family experience.
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I always see my wife as the clever one, as the wise one in the family.
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I have always had someone in my life that I consider my reading mentor because I come from a family where reading was not emphasized or even approved of.
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In China, it was hard living as a young girl without my family. I had no idea what life was going to be like as a North Korean refugee. But I soon learned it's not only extremely difficult, it's also very dangerous, since North Korean refugees are considered in China as illegal migrants.
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I love coming back home and seeing old friends and family. I would say it keeps me grounded.
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If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.
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The divorce in my family was really amicable. There were no fireworks. It was all sort of behind the scenes, if you will. None of us kids ever saw any argument.
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You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being, and that of your family and your country.
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Tolstoy said that “each unhappy family is unhappy in a way of its own
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I was the fifth child in a family of six, five boys and one girl. Bless that poor girl. We were very poor; it was the 30s. We survived off of the food and the little work that my father could get working on the roads or whatever the WPA provided. We were always in line to get food. The survival of our family really depended on the survival of the other black families in that community. We had that village aspect about us, that African sense about us. We always shared what we had with each other. We were able to make it because there was really a total family, a village.
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If you don't have your family behind you, supporting you and giving you advice when you need it, things can get very difficult.
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'Why did you marry me into this family, mother?' said Lipa.'One has to be married, daughter. It was not us who ordained it.'
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Between 1950 and 2008, Detroit lost over a million people—58 percent of its population. Today one third of its citizens live in poverty. Detroit’s median family income is $33,000, about half the U.S. average. In 2009, the city’s unemployment rate was 25 percent, which was 9 percentage points more than any other large city and more than 2.5 times the national average.
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I love to go to the beach or stay at the pool with my girls - enjoy the sun and the water as much as I can, take rides with the bicycles, and spend time with my family.
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And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.
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I'm not familiar with an unaccepting family. But in my profession, nothing can be foreign.
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The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me - my mother's side of the family have awful legs.
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TV has gone back to basics, relating to middle class family with real characters, less make-up and simple shots. I feel as an actor it is a delight to work in such shows.
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It's a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It's a long process to let it happen.
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When the president decides that he knows better than you know what's good for you or your family, we've got trouble in this country.
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I try to get back for every holiday to see my parents. Love being home and with my family.
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I always knew I was going to be a family man.
