Family Quotes
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I grew up in London, one of four children. We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of talking. My mum was a hearth mother: she loved to gather us all around her - Sunday lunches were a big thing. She was very good at thinking on her feet - people used to say she should go into politics.
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It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.
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I am strong. I lived through a divorce, separation from my family. I never let it break me down. I’m not an alcoholic. I’ve never smoked, I’ve never done drugs. I’ve floated through the disaster of my past clean. I arrived here undamaged.
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I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.
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Think about the possibility: why is it that iPhones and iPads advance far faster than the health tools that are available to you to help take care of your family?
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My family wasn't particularly political. Mom and Dad voted, but that was the extent of their involvement. In fact, I ended up going to U.C. Davis because, to them, Berkeley was too radical.
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I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect.
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My plans never progressed as far as a clear desire for a family.
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I have learned so many things from my mother about the right upbringing, the right values, value for money, value for elders, for family members. I think these things only a parent can teach you.
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I ran away from small-town Canada to London; I ran away from my family because I didn't think I could be the person I was.
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I'm lucky to have been blessed with a great family and a wonderful Christian wife.
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Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.
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I normally fly under the radar, and I'm normally not the best in my family, even though I'm sort of second or third best in the world.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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I no fight for the money because I work hard for UFC for long time. I have money for my family. But I fight because I love it.
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It's impossible to be someone you're not, so quit trying. I am as passionate about my hobbies as I am about my work and my family. All three are equally important to me at all times.
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Your family are people you lean on and learn from. When I told my family I wanted to do music, they were really supportive.
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It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.
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I'm trying to tell kids if they are gay, it's OK to be gay. I've tried to tell families if they have a gay family member to accept them and love them as they always have.
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My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that's an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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Jews have deep respect for the Queen and the royal family. We say a prayer for them every Sabbath in synagogue. We recite a special blessing on seeing the Queen.
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Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.
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I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners. You don't air your dirty laundry to people that aren't your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?
