Quotes About Family

You grow up a certain way, and you make decisions within your family, but then you go to college, and the decisions become harder. You are away from home, from the influence of your parents, dealing with peer pressure. There's a lot of stuff that goes on in college.

My mother is a very liberal wife and mother, so there was no peer pressure to marry.

I have so many peers who say, 'I need to get away from my parents,' because even though they love the business and they love their parents, they feel like they are letting their parents down if they don't work to the bone. As a parent, you should be the safe place.

In 'Forbidden Love,' my character is a divorcee who has an affair with a young doctor. They are blissfully happy and have everything going for them. But their peers, friends, her daughter, and his family disapprove, and the affair ends.

I'm grateful for my family and my peers.

I was really lucky about two things about my life as a kid: I had awesome parents, and I had awesome peers.

Making my family, friends, and close peers proud of me is the most important thing.

But there was a lot of pressure to achieve and to get things right, whether in school, on stage or with my peers and family.

I am proud to wear the name Le Pen.

We lived in my father's studio, so there were the brushes and the pencils and the paint. So it would - it was very natural for me to want to paint, I think, and it was never a question.

It's not about the pennies as such, but what I've been able to create for the family. I have done that better than I could have ever dreamed.

My mother is Afro-Caribbean and my father is Caucasian-American, and I was born in Pennsylvania and moved to the Cayman Islands when I was about 2. So I grew up there with my mother, and it's really all I know. I grew up there until it was time to go to college, and that's when I moved back to America.

I'm from Pennsylvania, so I was in New York a lot and my brother lives in New York.

My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania.

I could write about coal miners in Northern Pennsylvania, and people would ask if I was writing about my dad.

I want to be part of making sure that decent, honorable, humble, hardworking people in Pennsylvania can look their kids in the eyes. And when they put in their 40 hours, they can say to their kids, 'I got you.'

I came from a poor Pennsylvania coal mining family and the only way I was going to get an education was through an athletic scholarship.

Paid leave is worth every penny.

The situation is as follows: my husband is a second son. That means he doesn't get the income to be a member of the Royal Family, carrying out royal duties. He, we, do as much, if not more, than some of the cousins, but he doesn't get a penny for expenses or income for doing that.

My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.

Sometimes I get the feeling that some parents really think their son can pay for their pension, especially being in London.

People change because of kids. They change how they eat. They change the way they think. They change the way they see one another.

People change naturally when they have children.

My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.