In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote. Billy Corgan on family
At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service. Dave Reichert on family
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. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on family
I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters. Joaquin Phoenix on family
I need my family to remind me in a loving and nice way to lighten up. Debra Winger on family
I have to make it my job to be careful with my family. Liam Neeson on family
My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving. Nicholas Sparks on family
My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere. Katy Perry on family
Santa Barbara is my hood. I mean, it's not much of a hood, but it is definitely like my hood. I claim Santa Barbara like I claim my family. I'm going to be married and buried there. Katy Perry on family
The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship. Havelock Ellis on family
I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be. Sidney Poitier on family
We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America. Dan Quayle on family
Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family. Francesca Annis on family
I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling. Maria Sharapova on family
Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture. Amos Bronson Alcott on family
I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what it's all about. Julie Andrews on family
I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing. Sheryl Crow on family
I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences. Louis Farrakhan on family
I did come from a pretty independent-minded family. David Hockney on family
I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose. David Hockney on family