I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats.
In Kuwait there is already a real, elected parliament with genuine power, but the prime minister is always a member of the ruling al-Sabah family. That must end.
Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end.
I have a nice family and I'm well rounded.
All of us in the Ball family in South Carolina, from the time we're children, hear stories about our ancestors, the slave owners.
It's not a common thing for a Southern white family to go out and seek their black cousins.
My family was totally non-religious. There was no question we were Jewish, but we were not observant.
Los Angeles is such a great meritocracy. Where can someone with my background - don't have the right family background, the right religion, the right provenance or whatever you want to call it - I come here and I'm accepted. The city's been good to m...
If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You can raise awareness just of the simple humanity.
My family had liberal positions.
My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.
My family brought me up to be very respectful of people.
My family is Native American, and I was raised with Native American ceremonies.
When I shoot I'll take my family with me - one movie a year and then the rest of the time at home.
I'm really still a child of the Forties. I still think about it a lot, about the repercussions of armed conflict. Until 1953 we had rationing. We couldn't buy meat, we couldn't buy pleasurable goods like cigarettes and sweets. I didn't starve - my fa...
I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
If I'm not working, I have home time with my family, and if I spend that stressing what's going to happen next, then it's a waste. I have a lot to be thankful for.
Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.
Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth. It is a matter of desire, diligence and determination to see one's family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters.
Do not leave yourself or your family unprotected against financial storms... Build up savings.
