Quotes About Family

Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.

My father, who was illiterate, smoothed iron for Ford Dagenham and we'd get up at 5;30 A.M. to give him a jump-start. My mother was a nurse and part of the Windrush generation. Growing up in east London, we were financially poor, but rich in hope and dignity, and we were happy.

My family were really poor.

My dad left when I was a little boy and I grew up with my mother's family. There were foundations in the U.S. where Jewish people got together and sent money to Cuba, so we got some of that. We were a poor family, but I was always a happy kid.

My family was very, very poor. We grew up in an environment that was so nurturing and so caring. Everything around us was beautiful.

I didn't have the easiest time growing up; it's no secret. We were just poor.

I did grow up poor. My mom managed to get a job as a custodian at our church, and it was really just a favor for her, and my dad's an electrician - just a blue-collar family, and the house was usually falling apart.

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.

When I started, I had nothing. Because my family was really, really, really poor.

I was an anomaly because my father was a Harvard man, and he came from a family of poor people.

We were much poorer than many families.

Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.

Obviously the music I listened to growing up helped create my musical pallet. My parents were into pop, soul, disco, RNB, Latin, jazz and Middle Eastern music.

I don't want to give up pop music. It's how I earn my living. I've got a family to take care of.

It's not beyond me to take my kids to see a good popcorn movie that's a roller coaster ride.

What a mother I am. I can't even make popcorn.

For me, watching a movie is an experience where I can go, eat popcorn, and enjoy with my friends and family. I want to be a part of cinema that entertains people.

As I got older, my pops tried to keep me involved with the culture by telling me the stories of the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, how he came to America, and about our family back home, because all that side of my family - my aunties, grandparents - is in Africa.

I would love to do top of pops as a grandma.

Pops played football for LSU. Ever since I can remember, I've been working with him running routes and stuff.

My mom eventually got out to Oxnard and started a produce company and was in the strawberry business. My pops was out of the picture by the time I was 7.

We do have depression in the family, and I've experienced it as it pops up from time to time. It is easier to deal with when I have someone looking to me to do things.

My pops played for the Packers for five years.