My family gave me values that have sustained me through situations that would challenge any person. My personal relationship with the Lord inspires me in all I do.
If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.
If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?
My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.
I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.
Sleeping with your child, wearing your child in a sling as opposed to pushing them around in expensive strollers, those are things that matter biologically and sociologically for the structure of a family.
Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.
When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as well.
I came from a poor family. My father was from Glasgow, Scotland; my mother's brothers were brakemen on the railroad. We didn't have anything but mush for breakfast.
The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
The Philippines, it has a politics of patronage. Family and favors, in addition to the old cliche of guns, goons and gold, really do still hold a lot of sway.
A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.
I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.
The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in a family like mine would ever respond like this.
All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.
Each time a high-wage job is lost, a family is turned upside down. And that affects the communities where they live.
I'm a family-based person, even though we didn't exactly have a very happy family. I was never in any doubt that this was a centre of writing.
Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.
My family was all police and hard hats at the refineries; they didn't know what to think about me. So I became a closet writer.
