Family Quotes - Page 5

I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.

The people of the Balkans are like a dysfunctional family. We may fight and argue, but in the end we are family.

I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.

I grew up as the only child, and we did not have a large family. So for me and my mother, our friends tend to become our family.

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.

I love holidays. It's such a wonderful time for the whole family to be together and not have to worry about schedules and that kind of thing.

We all have a gift; we all have a passion - it's just about finding it and going into it. Being an asset to your family and community.

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

Love your family. Love your country. Never stop learning... And always look back and be grateful to where you came from.

I want every Filipino woman empowered with information regarding all options available to her regarding family planning.

I am very happy and honored to be part of the Sony ATV family.

I can buy anything I want now. It hasn't changed me personally. It just changed what I can do for myself and my family.

I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.

I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have them as friends. I feel very close to them I think friends are everything in life after your family. You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be true to them otherwise what's the point in life?

I'm just trying to be the me that I am and not all of this other crap. I just want to be the family man, and if somehow I can make the money to get my ranch and get the hell away from everybody else, that would be awesome.

As a kid we moved around a fair bit as a family. It was difficult to make friends but sport helped. Once people saw you kick a football it broke down barriers. Instead of being the new skinny black kid you were the kid everyone wanted on their team.

I am truly blessed to have been a part of the MTV family for so long.

I can tell you in all honesty that I am highly connected to my family, my wife, and my three children, though I don't get to spend dollops of hours with them.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.

I was raised in a Jewish family, but since I was adopted, my parents sent me to Hebrew school and Bible chapel, so I got the best of both worlds - singing in both a choir in Bible chapel and a chorus in Hebrew school. It shaped me and my voice.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

As a former refugee myself, I am very grateful for the help my family received and the opportunities this opened up for me and where it has brought me.

I advocate family planning, but I have never stood for forcible sterilisation.

Children are the keys of paradise.

I was born in South Africa during apartheid, a system of laws that made it illegal for people to mix in South Africa. And this was obviously awkward because I grew up in a mixed family. My mother's a black woman, South African Xhosa woman... and my father's Swiss, from Switzerland.

The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.

I'm a fighting man, a fighting man with generations of fighting men before me in my family. That's all we do: we fight.

I'm an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my fans.

I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.