Quotes About Family

Growing up in the Philippines, I wanted to be so much like my dad. He taught me simple survival stuff.

I heard endless conversations between my parents when I was going to sleep about how we would survive, how we would continue. All of them were about trying to make me better.

You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

I've had three young children close to me - my nephew, niece and my god-daughter - born into the world needing life-saving machines to help them survive.

Social media helps you stay connected, but we can't survive without real communication with loved ones.

You have what is right in front of you. You survive and you have your family. That's the whole world.

When the poor know that their children will survive, when they educate their daughters, when they access family planning, they have fewer children.

Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.

My mum had 14 pregnancies - but only four of us survived. We had a little sister born for a few days and she died. There had to be a funeral.

I'm not the only one; most people's mothers are the most influential person in their life. But my mother survived the camps, and she was very strong. She made me strong, but she wanted me to be strong. That's more important.

As a child, I'd help my mum cook, and it was ridiculous - she had the correct gadget or utensil for everything. 'Stop! Don't use that, I have exactly the right utensil.' After I left home, I survived on cup-a-meals and never saw myself as being like her. Now I've become her.

The values transmitted through oral history are many - courage, selflessness, the ability to endure, and to do so with humor and grace. I got those values listening to my dad's stories about the Depression and how their family survived. It gave me courage that I, too, could survive hard times.

I have survived ALS to continue my work as a musician and composer for 28 years due to the care I receive through insurance and Medicaid. Without these supports, my family can flatout not manage my care, and my life and career will be in serious jeopardy.

I was going to do medicine at Edinburgh University - when I was three weeks old I nearly died, but they did an operation and I survived. It was a huge thing for my family - I was the first-born - and doctors were heroes, so I wanted to join them.

I only survived because of my mother's love and care.

I survived cancer thanks to the support of my family.

Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.

I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.

'Emily Rose' was based on a real story, and the real girl died, and there were surviving members of the family, so I took the concerns of that very seriously.

My grandparents got out of Poland right before the Holocaust and came here, and the only thing that mattered was surviving.

'Surviving Jack' was actually a really nice show that was very well-run creatively.

A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.

Growing up, I heard a lot about strength. My dad - a Holocaust survivor - embodied it, though he would never say that about himself. Not only did he survive one of the most horrific events in history, but he never lost hope along the way, crediting acts of kindness with keeping him alive.

My mom, she's a breast cancer survivor and because of that I had started getting mammograms once a year, starting at age 30.