We are fashioned not by our genes, but by our environment - by the family and socio-historic conditions in which we evolve.
We do not possess an official certificate of birth for worship of one God. But the family line is clear: the Jews invented it to endure the coherence, cohesion and existence of their small, threatened people.
Some scripts you read and say, 'I've just got to do this' and you find a way of making it work. Some things you turn down because of the impact on family.
My #1 driving force is my lord and savior Jesus Christ. Also my family, my wife and children.
Most of leaders in Philippine politics come from rich family.
I come from a poor family.
I had unusual parents. We'd been to Europe. We'd been in the theater. We were sort of like the Addams Family.
If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible.
Growing up, I used to watch 'Happy Days,' 'Laverne & Shirley,' 'All in the Family.' Those were the shows I watched growing up with my family. And, believe it or not, 'McMillan and Wife' and 'Columbo.'
Today the family is being attacked and defended with equal vehemence.
It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits.
When I visited Vietnam for Oxfam, the thing that really struck me was how the local farmers had to prepare to evacuate or climb to their mezzanines with their valuable family possessions.
I don't think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother.
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 have a ton of cousins on my mom's side of the family, and we would put on shows together all the time and put on costumes, and we even charged our parents money.
You don't ask people about the immigration policies of the U.K. or their country's agricultural policy. Instead, you talk to them about the meal they're eating or their family, and from that you get the sense of another human being, someone we can al...
The American people know what's necessary to get this economy moving again. It's fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across-the-board tax relief for working families, small businesses and family farms.
My family is still very Southern Baptist, and they're religious.
My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.
I had no fun. My family was too serious.
When I was in high school, I used to have breakfast with my grandpa every morning. He instilled a lot of values in me: hard work, loyalty. He grew up during the Great Depression in Philly in poverty - he didn't have enough to eat as a kid. Sometimes ...
