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I grew up listening to gospel. That was the only thing that I had reference to because that was what my family was involved with.
When I'm at my grandparents', I know I literally have to do nothing but relax, enjoy myself, and enjoy my family members' company.
The economic crisis really affected my family - 2006 to 2011 were really bad times. Almost everybody in my family lost their jobs.
This is a pretty shitty flash mob. It's in my living room, only my family showed up, and they're just telling me to stop drinking.
I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family. And he assured me that he was my family now. -Tris Prior
I am really good about compartmentalizing and treating my family as one thing and the show or whatever my job as a secondary thing.
I was born in Mount Kisco, New York-although my family was living in the Bronx at the time. That's just where I decided to be born.
All my closest friends came to me through poetry. My wife, too! Other than my family, poetry is the gravitational force of my life.
When I'm just walking around, I swap between the British and the American, and when I'm with my family I'm with my Nigerian accent.
The only thing I don't like about acting is that it takes so much time away from my family. Otherwise, I don't have any complaints.
This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly.
I was the darkest skinned person in my family. I remember how I used to feel - like I wasn't pretty enough, or I wasn't good enough.
Outside of my family, the prime concern of my life has been nature and its order, and how we have been savagely altering that order.
I felt I had a responsibility to do the right thing. And then I wanted to do the right thing by my family and there was no handbook.
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 decided I wanted to do something that was worthwhile and thought I would try architecture. There was not an architect in my family.
Like millions of others, I have been plagued by the devastating effects of cancer hitting not one, but multiple members of my family.
I never felt sidelined, I was supported by my friends, my family and my team. I always knew I could do it. I had confidence in myself.
It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.
Part of my family were ranchers. So you were expected to be quite macho. You weren't expected to cry. I was the exact opposite of that.
I just wanted to do something that had some meaning that I can look back and be proud of, that my family can look back and be proud of.
My relationship to all my family in Ireland is more to family as a whole. It wasn't that we had a very specific one-on-one relationship.
I have tried to live my life so that my family would love me and my friends respect me. The others can do whatever the hell they please.
I used to live an isolated existence, even in relationships, but now my family knows me for who I really am. Mostly, that's a good thing.
I think the fame aspect, there was definitely a period when I had to get used to it. My family had to get used to it, too. It's exciting.
I think there's a down-to-earthness with Midwesterners and with people from the Midlands - which is where my family is from - in Ireland.
I never met Kurt Cobain, but I felt like I got to know him in a manner probably more intimate than anyone I've known outside of my family.
I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on stage, it's a constant.
I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in our front room with my family as the audience.
I was brought up with a lot of love in my family, and I've always been supported. My family has always protected me in a sort of manic way.
Email helps me keep in touch with my family. I wouldn't know what my extended family was doing every day if we weren't emailing each other.
I'm not one about trying to slow things down. What I try to do is create an atmosphere for my family where we can pretty much have whatever.
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.
Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability. I believe the same can be said of many families.
Business fits me best. The only reason I went into modeling originally was to help out my family, because I knew that money gave you freedom.
I just love to work and spend time with my family. And that's the reason I don't look at the length of the role, but what it has to offer me.
Every year my family would pile into the car for our vacation and drive 80 trillion miles just to prove we couldn't get along in any setting.
I chose to devote the lion's share of my time to my personal growth and to my family. I reconnected with the part of me that I had left behind.
My family helped start [this country], we've been in political life ... since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense about this country.
I called my family, saying, "Guess what? I got a new show. It's about a cop who travels in time." And they said, "I think we've seen that one."
Well, I made an announcement to my family at 8 that I wanted to be an actor, and I focused like a laser beam on it. I never had a fallback plan.
I'm going to be prayerful about it. Whatever decision I make hopefully is the best decision I can make for my family and the fans and everybody.
The few people who ask to have their photographs with me, I almost always say yes, except for a few circumstances, like when my family is around.
Getting and keeping my immunity became very important to me. For I needed to take care of myself and my family. No one else was worried about me.
I was very attached to my family when my father died. I was 19. I was about to go live with my father right when he died, so it was very intense.
I have pictures from work that I'm sending to my family. I send them scripts that I'm working on so they can be excited and know what's up with me.
My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.
As a child, I came across the Bible, but nobody in my family had anything to do with religion. I just felt a profound truth there that appealed to me.
I was neglected by my family because I had disappointed them - I'd run away from being forced into an arranged marriage, which was a big blow to them.
I've had no money, absolutely, from my family. They paid for a good education - or schools that purported to be a good education - but, um, not a dime.