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Family Quotes
"When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters."
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"A successful father is not more successful than his children."
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"Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand."
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"We feel really blessed to have been asked to come here, and to have the opportunity for our family to be able to look into the eyes of these people, and in some way help."
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"And you've got to remember that I'm also the father of nine children."
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"One's nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect; and all nations have honorable place in the world's family."
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"Music was around in my family in two ways. My mother would occasionally sing to me, but I was mostly stimulated by the classical music my father had left behind. I had an ear for music, I suppose, so that's what began my interest in music."
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"My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators."
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"In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television."
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"Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla."
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"I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely."
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"I can't be the big star in the family. We have a family, and we are all equal."
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"Every child knows its mother, Dany thought. When the seas go dry and the mountains blow in the wind like leaves."
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"I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard."
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"Alcoholism is a genetically predisposed disease and it does run in my family. I also think I felt like a misfit. I was in the South, everybody was blonde. I just didn't feel like I fitted in. It was sort of my way of fitting."
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"I doubt I'll ever do another book collaboration; I've been spoiled. Roger and I both happened to move to New Mexico at about the same time, when we each had a family of young kids to raise. Socializing seemed to lead naturally to working together."
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"If I were to retire, I would keep my family's interest in the company the same and say, Don't sell."
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"Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant."
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"A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime."
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"And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me."
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"Ignorance is the mother of admiration."
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"People wonder if I'll always be a part of this family and the answer is yes. My family has a lot of good energy going in one direction and because of it, we get a lot of things done. That's why I'll always spend a lot of time at Camp Phoenix."
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"I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me."
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"There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values."
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"In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth."
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