Quotes About Family

I completely put all my time and effort into my kids and once I stepped foot in the ring, that's who I fight for. And that's who I work extra hard for when I'm tired, to feed my family and to make sure that they are going to be alright after boxing.

Before I started playing I was a big football fan and used to go to see games all the time. But once I started playing I gradually started stepping away from it and would go to see friends and family after games instead of watching and talking about football.

For the sexuality thing, I really feel like the reason I speak so blunt about it is because I held it in for so long. I never told my mom. I never told my family. I kept it to myself. Now, I'm happy with who I am. Either you accept it, or you don't. There's a lot of rappers out there that's like that, but no one's stepping up.

I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.

Growing up, I had a lot of family members who worked in the Dallas Independent School District, and they shared stories firsthand with me about kids stepping into the cafeteria hungry before practice, or waiting for the school building to open the next morning just so they could get a meal.

The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.

I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps.

I'm not a mainstream artist. But I've seen my kids being born; I've seen them take their first steps, I've seen them grow up and start school. That's worth more to me than any umpteen million dollars.

I have been blessed with a family, mother especially, who started buying me fancy shoes from the time I took baby steps.

My first steps in football came thanks to my big brother who taught me the game.

If you're falling in love with several people, it's really important to not just continue coasting in the relationships and start taking big steps towards permanence, especially before you're going to meet someone's family.

Any man who steps in the ring, I give them respect because we're trying to feed our family and this is how we do it.

If something doesn't work in my house - TV, phone, stereo, anything - I just call my dad, and he knows the answer.

the people who attacked Mr. Paul are much more concerned with staying in power than they are with protecting my family and yours.

My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.

What children hear at home soon flies abroad

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.

Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

To be baptized is a sign that everything we are – work and play, personality and character, commitments and passions, family and ethnicity – is gathered up and given shape and definition by our identity as one of God's own children.

As a consequence, very tall parents tend to have tall children, but not as tall (on average) as they are themselves;

The most painful death in all the world is the death of a child. When a child dies, when one child dies-not the 11 per 1,000 we talk about statistically, but the one that a mother held briefly in her arms-he leaves an empty place in a parent's heart that will never heal.

And meadow rivulets overflow,And drops on gate bars hang in a row,And rooks in families homeward go,And so do I.