Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
Well family is obviously the most important. There was a time when I thought football was the most important.
In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I'm enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.
Meanwhile I married and I adopted three kids who were all from one family and then later I was divorced.
In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
I was raised in a really terrific, close family, and I've never needed to escape anything or to really let myself go by dancing on tables.
I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from 'Alice in Wonderland,' so we've got some strange names in our family.
I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.
I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.
My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.
Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.
They never were planning to be here. All my family are going to London because they wanted to go to the big one. There was never any showdown - there wouldn't be.
The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends.
Carson is an old family name, though my grandma used to watch Johnny all the time and was crazy about him.
Family transcends the flesh. You don't love someone because they look like you, you love their spirit; it's the soul connection.
If you have only a glass of water, then one person can drink. If you have a bucket, a whole family can benefit.
The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.
When I was younger, it was really difficult for me to get acting jobs, because you're a kid and you don't fit in the typical family.
I've been drawing since I was about 3 and I come from a family of artists.
Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
I moved to Lucerne, where I have lived happily with my family ever since.
