My Family Quotes

In my life, the stories I have heard from my family, my friends, my community, and from willing strangers all over the world have been the true source of my education.

My friends are my second family. Sometimes friends can understand my problem but my family can't.

It's called Paris, not Hilton, just me, because I don't want people to think it's my family's. It's mine.

My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family.

I love the game so much. I've been penalized. I've been fined. I have some regrets in my career. But for those four hours on Sunday, you can be free and just let it all go. Retiring had nothing to do with football; it had to do with my family.

I've been here for nine years, and over that time, these people have become like my family.

I have a little baby. She knows who I am. My friends know. My family knows.

I'm choosing to suffer less. To put myself and my family through less pain.

None of what’s happened to me and to my family has shaken what I know to be correct and true about science and medicine, and my experiences.

My family is very traditional, Catholic.

I stayed close to my family. My family never changed.

All through my young life I wanted to sing, although nobody in my family knew it.

My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.

Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.

I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.

Nobody actually played tennis in my family.

I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were.

The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone's cool.

What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first.

I've always tried to fit what I do professionally into my family, rather than the other way around.

Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.

I am close - too close - with my family.

Personal differences, musical differences, business differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family.

I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films.

My family and school life are important to me.

If not for my family, I would have been in big trouble.

Being with my family is very important to me, and touring is very important to me, too, because it's who I am. It's what I do.

I think everyone deals with things in their own way. Everybody's different. My family are all different. None of us are the same. We all deal with different things in different ways. I think it's about knowing yourself, what pushes your buttons, and figuring out how to work with yourself.

For women in my family, in Korean culture, women are really valued in their youth, and then when they get older, it's like they almost become irrelevant.

For me, it's all about who you are. Some athletes may feel a responsibility. Some may not. One thing I've talked with my family and team about is doing more. Trying to make an impact.

I tell myself it's a virtue, my failure to sleep in my own house, or at all. I tell myself that I spend more hours than most people aware that I am alive, and that over a lifetime this adds up to more living, more aliveness. I am more alive than the rest of my family. Which is my greatest night fear. Which is why I hunt. I don't ever want to be more alive than they are.

My family shouldn't have to put up with me. They're good people, solid, happy. Sometimes when I'm with them I think I'm on television.

My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.

I'm always going back to one thing - my family... It's my family, my religion, my fighters. Put them in any order you want.

Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.

When I was ten, my family moved to Downer's Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.

My family keeps me pretty grounded. Like if I try anything diva, they're like, 'Oh shut up. Go and do the dishwasher.'

So you actually need spectacles,” Leo finally said. “Of course I do,” Marks said crossly. “Why would I wear spectacles if I didn’t need them?” “I thought they might be part of your disguise.” “My disguise?” “Yes, Marks, disguise. A noun describing a means of concealing someone’s identity. Often used by clowns and spies. And now apparently governesses. Good God, can anything be ordinary for my family?

I started thinking about what it would be like to raise my family in my hometown. I looked at other teams, but I wasn't going to leave Miami for anywhere except Cleveland. The more time passed, the more it felt right. This is what makes me happy.

Like millions of others, I have been plagued by the devastating effects of cancer hitting not one, but multiple members of my family.

My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.

But we've all ended up giving body and soul to Africa, one way or another. Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in tropical epidemiology and strange new viruses. Each of us got our heart buried in six feet of African dirt; we are all co-conspirators here. I mean, all of us, not just my family. So what do you do now? You get to find your own way to dig out a heart and shake it off and hold it up to the light again.

When you move from a different country, it takes a while to make friends. I found myself being lonely a lot at first. In New Delhi, I had all my family. But Portland is one of those cities you can immerse yourself in and feel comfortable. People are so friendly.

Oh yeah brother I was right they started in with that mormon vudo right off the bat as soon as we walked in everybody was friendly. One of them who later became known to my family as the amazing Mr. Plastic Man even told me that he loved us. Please there are times I don't even like us how could you possibly love us. I was thinking spend some time with me pal and I'll cure you of that.

I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.

I didn't take the typical path and go to college after high school. Instead, I saved up money from teaching dance classes and moved to L.A. But my family was so supportive - I never felt pressure from them. It's crucial to find a support system, even if it's not your family.

I think a lot of people are capitalizing, perhaps exploiting, what was done via me, my family, my administration.

My family achieved success not in spite of, but because of the American system of taxation. After all, without reliable and safe roads there’d have been no Disneyland; without high functioning legal systems and a well regulated business environment there would have been no copyright protection for Mickey Mouse.

My work's never been accepted by my family, but it's something I'll always carry on with.

I have always been very open and honest about this part of my life with my friends, my family, and my colleagues. In a perfect world, I don't think it's anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted. I’m not an activist, but I am a human being and I don't give that up by being a journalist.