My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.
This country was founded on a core set of family values. These values should not be discouraged and blatantly undermined by the airing of offensive material on broadcast television and radio.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
I got married quite early. And then I had a son. I had a family. And this may be hard to believe, but I am a complete family kinda girl.
My family is a Jewish Iranian family, but I was born in Turkey and raised in Italy. So it's a very mixed background.
We will fail God, we will fail our family, and our family might fail us at times, but God never fails us.
I always knew I wanted a family because of the way I grew up. Family has always been the most important thing.
I love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as opposed to one.
I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.
A person can be big, because of spirit. A person can be big because of their position in the family, the hierarchy in the family. That role has been played by women who are quite thin.
I think for anybody, any family, and I know there are families out there that are going through this even now, that it is the hardest thing in the world. Nobody is ever prepared for it.
Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start.
I have those moments with my kids and family where we try to unplug and just be in the moment. We put everything else to the side and just be there with our family.
Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.
I wanted some family structure and stability, and that's what The Partridge Family afforded me, not only financially but in the fact that I could be at home with my kids.
Latin life is rich with warmth, family values and history. I want to bring that beauty into American homes.
When I look back, I did what I had to do for business and then fit family life into it.
One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists.
Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.
For me, the family is more important, of course! I don't want to change my family, or situation, for work. But I think it is possible for these things not to fight each other.
Usually a family is led through the mom or the dad and their career and for the family to be led by my career, even though God has led it, could be a lot of pressure.
