Quotes About Family

My dad loves boxing, so he used to hold up his hands when we were little kids, and we would punch his hands, and he slowly got us little gloves, and little punching bags that he'd always hold for us.

I slowly began to develop an interest in the game. I owe my success to my family. Had it not been for my father and my brother, I would not have been so closely associated with cricket.

My parents were not poor, I mean we were a very average middle-class family of academics, but my grandfather happened to have built house literally next to one of Kolkata's largest slum.

First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.

When I was young, I was the kid who would call my dad from a slumber party to beg him to come pick me up.

My grandfather was Scottish, born in the slums of Glasgow.

I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.

I was born in Nagpur and brought up in Ahmedabad, where my father had a small factory.

I have a small and decent indoor cricket facility at home itself.

The way it works in my family is as follows: they first loosen their grip at 16 when you are encouraged to get a Saturday job. I was clamouring to start earning and had been doing cleaning jobs around the house for small amounts of money for years.

I grew up in a family business... that really has provided the core of my belief in American small business, and in America's ability to grow and operate important businesses that can compete and be successful.

As a small business owner for the last 15 years, when I think of what truly changed my life, it was my faith, a strong family, my mom did a really, really good job of encouraging me in very clear and discernible ways.

We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.

Growing up on a family farm, I know firsthand the challenges of running a small business... challenges that only seem to be growing for today's entrepreneurs.

I grew up in a conservative household, my parents were small business owners, so it really just was kind of part of who we were.

As a mother of four and a small business owner, I know it takes discipline and tough choices to balance a budget.

I want to buy more property, start a couple of small businesses, and if my cousin wants to go to college, I want to put him through with ease.

Although they arrived in New York penniless, my parents scraped together enough savings to establish the first of several small businesses just after I was born.

The Death Tax destroys American jobs and cripples small businesses and family farms.

Denmark is a country built on a commercial fleet. That's basically what we have been doing. We're just a small country of islands, and every family has a sailor. So, in many ways, my father was a sailor before I was born.

Even if I was to give my children a small part of my wealth, it would be more than they can digest in many lifetimes.

I hail from a small town. My parents were never apprehensive about my decision to take up acting - they've been a constant support to me.

I grew up in Alabama in a very small town and didn't have access to the finest of anything, really. But my mother was the kind of woman who just wanted us, me and my sisters, to be exposed to any and anything she could find.

I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.