Quotes About Family

Work and family are at the center of our lives, the foundation of our dignity as a free people.

When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There were three or four songs she wrote about my father - songs about failed love.

We must have sweeping, generous immigration reform, make existing law- abiding Hispanics welcome. Most are hard working family people.

We're not hearing any Hollywood people talk about the Crime Family Foundation. We're not talking about any specific details about Hillary Clinton's work on the foundation.

My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them.

I like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41.

One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.

Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

As I mentioned, things were particularly hard during the Depression. My paternal grandfather was frequently out of work, and the family was evicted from their home.

Career mothers are not kidding anybody. Being a mom is the hardest job of all. You got to work to rest.

Family or love or romance, whatever it is, is not restricted to perfect people. If it were, it wouldn't exist. All of that comes out in my work in some way.

The great challenge for me is to be all things to all people; I want to be a great mother, and I want to feel good when I'm at work.

I have a full life: I have two amazing kids, I have great friends, great family. And right now, that's plenty for me to manage. A new relationship just seems like way too much work.

I hope to work, support my children and die quietly without pain.

It's a big deal to bring your family on the road, you know? I'd love to do it sometime, but you have to work out schools and all that.

I work pretty hard, and struggle, and things are hard, but the most important thing to remember is that I have beautiful children that I love, and I love them.

Young men now want to be caregivers as well as earners so they have joined with women in demanding a different compact at work; they want flex and time for family too.

I work at home, in the country, and days will go by when, except for my husband and son and the occasional UPS man, the only sentient creatures that see me are my chickens and turkeys.

I still feel conflicted because I don't always get to spend as much time with my daughter as I'd like, given my work.

My mother was Protestant, and in her mind life was more about work and obligations and responsibilities.

I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers; they're both artists and actors, and their work and the way they see the world inspires me.

The Nugent family is a solid asset. What works for us would work for all humankind.

Coming from an African background, obviously the foundation of the family home is education, probably because my parents had to work a lot harder for everything that they've got in this country.

Rich countries don't need as many children. We used to need kids to work in the fields as farm hands, to crawl on their bellies into coal mines. Well, kids are more like luxury objects now.