Quotes About Family

I used to run the streets, my mom used to be crying all the time, coming to get me out of the police station all the time. Sports took me off the street.

The idea of my parents was to keep us away from the streets. Gelsenkirchen is not a rich city. The crime is above average so they always tried to keep us away from bad things, and I think they were successful.

Growing up in Chicago is hard. I'd say 80 percent of the people ain't really got no daddies. Their household wasn't right. All they know is the streets and getting some money to support each other and support their family.

A good life depends on the strength of our relationships with family, friends, neighbours, colleagues and strangers.

I have always drawn strength from being close to home.

My father has been a constant source of love and strength in my life.

Along with my will power, it was my parents who stood by me like a pillar of strength in my most challenging phase of life.

My mother helped me to be who I am: to have strength and not to let people run all over me and yet to be humble; to realise that all of this that I have today could be gone.

As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.

If people look at me and, certainly, my brothers, and they see strength and guts, they'd have to know my parents. If they wanted to know why we're so close as a family, that closeness comes from my mother and father.

The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America, America. In our best days, we can feel the vibrancy of America's communities, large and small.

Being African American and Jewish, I have plenty of ancestors and family members that I can look to for strength and, more importantly, for a grateful outlook on life.

I'm so proud of my mom and I admire her faith and especially strength. In everything that she's gone through she's really been there for me, and that's incredible.

My parents, especially my mother, has been my pillar of strength.

My mother was my pillar of strength.

It is my brother's belief in me that got me this far. Ankur has always been my biggest source of strength. Had it not been for him, I could've never reached the heights where I am now.

I always believe holidays strengthen the family bond, away from our daily hectic schedules.

The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.

Food strengthens my family bond while it nourishes my body.

Investing in women at home and abroad strengthens families, uplifts our children, improves health, makes communities and countries more peaceful, and brightens our collective future. Where women have equality, security, and the opportunity to live, work, and prosper, their families and societies are better off.

Social conservatives are very focused on strengthening the family, and I think they are right to do so. One of the worst blind spots of the Left has been its reluctance to say that marriage matters for children.

It's about strengthening the relationship and the bond of parent to child.

I try to walk in the lane God wants for me, working on immigration, prison reform, strengthening the family through my ministry.

I have been compelled to dig deep inside and pull out strengths I never knew I possessed in order to protect my family.