I'm the rogue Canadian in my family - I just happened to be born here while my parents were studying here.
A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats.
My mother was adored by her family and by the scores of children she took care of and their parents, all of whom called her 'Miss Woody.'
Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?
My family was always active, and our thing was family walks. Not walks around the block, but more like eight-mile hikes up mountains.
If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible.
Comparing your family budget to the sovereign debt of the United States is a little like comparing two kindergartners tossing a paper airplane to the Apollo 11 mission.
Honestly, I'm living my fantasy. It's being with my family, preferably on a snowy afternoon with a fire going, cuddled up in blankets, playing a game.
I'm just very keen to have a family and both Catherine and I, you know, are looking forward to having a family in the future.
Family is more than DNA, more than who we used to be, more than we can imagine we will become.
When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.
We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.
You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.
Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.
From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business.
The ad business has some of the great artists, but because there are so many, its hard to determine the true gems.
I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.
All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
I ran for Congress because I want to make sure others have the same chance at the dream that I had for generations to come.
We've had a chance to be seen by viewers who had never seen us before, and we've kept a lot of them.
I was a military spouse, and I lived on military pay. It is very difficult to do that. But we do that with honor and with gratitude for the chance to serve this country.
