Quotes About Family

We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.

I don't think it's at all weakening of the system if people with the same last name put themselves forward to the electorate, when their experiences, their character, and in my case, gender, may be different.

I was raised looking at women who were strong, and they weren't really into playing race cards or playing gender cards. I didn't grow up around women who were like, 'Well, let the boys do that, and let the girls do that.' I didn't really see that in my house.

Leaders talk about gender equality but it is not seen during selection of candidates. They will talk about winnability and a woman candidate seldom fulfils the criteria unless she is from a political family.

I've got the 'fat gene' in my family, so I've always got to watch what I eat.

By the age of 18, I was very fat. My dad would say there's a Spall fat gene. But I was fat because I ate loads. I used to go and buy six or seven chocolate bars and eat my way through them.

My family is funny. I think you're born with the gene.

What I miss is being close to nature - collecting your own water and generating your own electricity, catching your own food. I still dream of doing that with my own family, even if it's just for a year-long experiment, I would love to have tried that.

I am a first generation American, and my family is from Bulgaria.

My father told me abuse is generational.

I want to have generational money.

I'm a fighting man, a fighting man with generations of fighting men before me in my family. That's all we do: we fight.

I'm so excited to be carrying on in Dad's footsteps and making sure that everything he worked so hard for continues for the generations to come.

Family dynamics are true over time, across generations and different cultures.

I've been thinking a lot about the journey of my parents - just seeing the sacrifices they've made to allow me to do what I do. How much of a difference their sacrifices have made through the generations.

You really have to prove yourself and prove your worth. I didn't come from family that had been here for generations and had all these connections.

I'm just so proud to be from San Francisco and to have a family history there. It's only two generations back, but still, it's two generations in San Francisco. I love it. I'm so proud of it.

I don't think it's healthy to have secrets; they hang over a family for generations.

I don't know another Philippine company that has lasted three generations, except for Ayala. Maybe Aboitiz is going to the third.

I came from an entrepreneurial family. My father and five generations of people in my family do not make good employees.

There is a real sense of loss when a family sells a business they've spent generations building. I wanted to get some of that back.

My parents made me who I am. They are kind, generous, loving people.

Our parents were very generous, and they always encouraged us to find something we enjoyed and really get into it.

We are fashioned not by our genes, but by our environment - by the family and socio-historic conditions in which we evolve.