Quotes About Family

When people say, 'You don't have a family' it makes my blood boil. I thought, 'Yes I do, I have my dad, my mum, my brothers and nieces.'

Let me just say this - I may not have children myself, but I am part of the best family in the world - my mum, my dad, my brothers and my nieces.

As for T.B. Joshua, I am a descendant of my family in Arigidi-Akoko in Ondo State, Nigeria - but as for the divine nature, the power of God affects my life to give peace to people, deliverance to people, and healing to people.

My grandma was raised in Ghana, and she went back there to work, so she could earn money for my mum's education in Nigeria. It's where it all began, and that dedication to education is the only reason I'm here.

My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'

My parents were among the first families from their area to leave Nigeria and come to America, the land of the free.

I was raised in Nigeria, and my mother is white, but I never saw her as white, not until I came to America. She was just my mother. She didn't really have a color.

I lived in Nigeria, Chad, and Cameroon when I was very young, until my mother divorced my father.

My earliest sporting memory is probably going judo when I was about 6 or 7 years old. My dad and my brother did it for a couple of years when I was young, in Nigeria.

I haven't been to Nigeria, but my dad and I have talked about going. I have a grandma over there who's been here.

I am as much British, white and working class, my mother's background, as I am black and Nigerian, my father's heritage.

There's only so much cold a Nigerian family can take.

My dad's Nigerian and I grew up in London, and that's just how it is.

I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.

My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos.

It can be a bit sententious in the Nigerian household, to the point where you feel like with any wrong step you've set yourself back so far. It's like everything has to be done right.

I come from a performing family. My parents are Nigerian, and their parents and their parents - and it's all about performance in their culture, you know. The music. The dancing... you're told to stand out at family gatherings and perform in some sort of way. You're just kind of born into it.

As a child, I lived in Germany at the Ramstein air force base, where my dad sang at a nightclub in Kaiserslautern. My parents couldn't afford a babysitter, so when I was, like, ten or 11, I would go with them to the bar until two in the morning.

Whenever you define family as anything other than a man and a woman married together, you have just introduced an ethical nightmare.

Each job I do is a bit of a logistical nightmare because of the kids, so I always feel like I need a good rest afterwards.

It's much easier being a father to girls. Boys are just horrible. Then girls come into their own around 12 when they're nightmares too.

My family and I are very close, and they mean more than anything to me, but I'm also the kind of guy who likes to go out with my friends and have a good time on Friday nights.

I don't have a perfect meal on the table most nights. Any night!

I hope that if you're cooking two nights a week, you can try for three.