The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my family's relationship with each other.
The bottom line is that weather events not only threaten private property and family budgets, but they also can decimate public resources and government coffers.
My family is part Creole, and we're Indian, and we're also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.
The fact that I am able to live a life and act and to do all of those things and support myself and my family is a gift.
The only people that you really have, that I learned, are your family, because they love you no matter what.
Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.
I love those books like 'Gone with the Wind,' the huge, sweeping family sagas.
Cancer affects so many people, and even if it hasn't affected someone in your family then you know someone who has had it.
I think I was about 30 before I realized that not every family talks about the presentment clause on a regular basis.
When you're a regular on your show, that's your family. When people come in and out, it doesn't mean that you don't embrace them, but they have to leave.
Oh, you know, driving around, coming to a stop sign and an entire family, from 8 to 80, will be looking at me with that Dr. Evil look - pinkie on the mouth.
We are fashioned not by our genes, but by our environment - by the family and socio-historic conditions in which we evolve.
It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.
My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew more about the basics of farming than of acting.
People might not protest for overtly political or social causes, but when they can't feed themselves and their family, they will take to the streets.
I get my voice from my mother's side of the family. My mother and my grandmother both had strong voices.
As soon as you get traded, you kind of start thinking where you're going to live, your family, you have to pack.
It's a rule when you're welcomed in the Marvel family that you have to understand that you're going to be living in a code of silence.
If I started being braggy, my family would be like, 'Shut up, Maisie! Who cares? Get off the sofa.'
I've spent the first part of my life in the shadow of my family. I'm not going to live in the shadow of my husband.
My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go.
