Quotes About Family

Meeting people who want to start a charity, help out their families, or raise money for a good cause has been really fun.

I didn't want to raise my child in Hollywood.

I had to make a major decision with myself because I just don't think you can do both: try to have a baby career and raise it and have a baby baby and raise it. And to try to do justice to either one. It was a very conscious decision on my part not to have children - which I have never regretted.

When I'm a mum, I'm not going to be one of those mums who has nannies. Actually, I might have nannies - never say never - but I'm not having someone else raise my kids.

I think the most important thing I have done in my life is to raise two boys.

Rock 'n' roll accepted me and paid me, even though I loved the big bands... I went that way because I wanted a home of my own. I had a family. I had to raise them. Let's don't leave out the economics. No way.

New York City is an amazing place to raise children.

When you are already eating as cheaply and meagerly as possible, any raise in cost can quickly plunge you and your family into hunger.

I had a very close relationship with my grandmother. She actually helped raise me.

I feel that people should have a license to have children, that they have proper education how to raise children. And that nobody should be allowed to be a parent unless they can prove that they are competent enough to be a parent.

I used to feel that I spent too much of my time in my pajamas doing nothing, and I'd think 'in the time that I don't spend writing, I could raise a family of five.' In a lot of ways, being a writer is lonely and alienating.

I would never scream at my kids, never raise my voice. But as they often tell me, they were so well behaved that screaming was not necessary.

No woman who works full time and plays by the rules should have to raise her family in poverty.

I don't know whether everybody likes the films that I do. I know that I love them, and I believe the way that I raise my kids that they will love them, and that's what most important to me.

I'm a New York girl. I want to stay here and raise my son here.

I love watching my brothers raise their kids and not have to do it for myself and have the responsibility.

You can't raise kids alone, you can't heal alone... you really need a community.

I try to base my life on the principles of Christ. I try to raise my family on the principles of Christ. I don't know if that makes me religious.

I don't see how a woman in documentary photography could have children. I think it's a very difficult thing to do to raise a family, and I have enormous respect for people who do it. I'd hate to do something like that and not be good at it.

I definitely don't want to have kids. I don't think I'd be a great mother. I don't want to have a kid and have it raised by a nanny. I don't have the time to raise a child.

My mom was a hairstylist, but she quit doing that to raise the kids - there were four of us. There was no money.

I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I was adopted.

I'm very proud of the way that I was raised, I'm very proud of the way that my parents raised me.

I was raised with a huge Armenian influence, always hearing stories of Armenia, celebrating Armenian holidays.