I am the baby in the family, and I always will be. I am actually very happy to have that position. But I still get teased. I don't mind that.
I live in a beautiful part of the world - western New Hampshire along the Baker River - and my family and I spend a lot of time outdoors.
The only reason I got married in 2003 was for my children. I had a therapist who said marriage is really a container for a family, and that made sense to me.
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.
Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.
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.
