Quotes About Family

North Carolina - our great state - means everything to me. I was born, raised, and educated here. I started and raised my own family here. And as Governor, I want to build a state where all North Carolinians are afforded the opportunities I've had.

I'm concerned about heart disease. I've raised money to fight heart disease; my dad died of it.

I've lived the American dream. I was born and raised on the farm, first in my family to graduate from college. I spent 13 years working in our family business.

I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.

I was actually raised around a lot of children. So, I'm very comfortable around children.

My mom raised me.

In my home, we listened to music all the time. I was raised through music, and I've been interested in it since I was three.

I guess the most seminal moment going early way back was my father died when I was 3 years old. I was raised by my grandparents, and my mother went back and got a degree.

She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.

I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.

I really wanted to be a mom. I didn't want my kids to be raised by a nanny, which would have been the case if I were working two movies in a year, you know? And I would have been hospitalized with fatigue.

I was raised by women. The men in my life were either not there or not good when they were there.

I've been raised by three women.

I was raised mostly by my mom.

My grandmother raised me. She was a real no-nonsense but very funny lady. I drove tractors, made hay, milked cows, fed the chicken, fed the pigs.

I was raised to take pride in homemaking, and it's something that I always love to do. I know I share that pride with millions of other women all over the world. It's a good feeling, and it makes me happy.

You never want to hurt the people that raised you; you don't want to disappoint them.

I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that's where us gay people come from... you heterosexuals.

When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education.

I had a lot of anger because I wasn't happy with the way I had been raised.

I don't think my dad ever raised his voice to my mother or to me, ever.

I just wanted to be able to say that I raised my kids and my family around a better environment than I was brought up in.

I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering us from that. I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago.

How I was raised is what I am today.