3 December 2020 Anthony Horowitz Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library.
3 December 2020 Hugh Jackman My parents were drawn to the idea that there was space and opportunity in Australia. For the meagre sum of £10, you could sail your entire family out to Australia, so that’s what my father chose to do.
3 December 2020 Jennifer Granholm Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.
3 December 2020 Monica Lewinsky Getting and keeping my immunity became very important to me. For I needed to take care of myself and my family. No one else was worried about me.
3 December 2020 Daniel Patrick Moynihan The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.
3 December 2020 T. E. Lawrence Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.
3 December 2020 Sidney Poitier I come from a great family. I’ve seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.
3 December 2020 Julie Burchill Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be ‘nothing.’ What a woeful lack of love for one’s country such statements express.
3 December 2020 Amos Bronson Alcott Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
3 December 2020 Steven Spielberg It all starts with the script: it’s not worth taking myself away from my family if I don’t have something I’m really passionate about.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
3 December 2020 Emeril Lagasse My family… always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.
3 December 2020 Donald Rumsfeld Let your family, staff, and friends know that you’re still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.
3 December 2020 Barbara Mandrell It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can’t fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
3 December 2020 Katy Perry Santa Barbara is my hood. I mean, it’s not much of a hood, but it is definitely like my hood. I claim Santa Barbara like I claim my family. I’m going to be married and buried there.
3 December 2020 Eric McCormack Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like ‘Modern Family,’ but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change.
3 December 2020 Virginia Satir Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible – the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
3 December 2020 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball – just spend a lot more time with my family.
3 December 2020 Jeff Foxworthy For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life’s list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors.
3 December 2020 Vin Diesel I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.
3 December 2020 Francis Ford Coppola I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.
3 December 2020 Al Sharpton The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody’s house.
3 December 2020 Ted Cruz I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.
3 December 2020 Marcia Wallace I think illness is a family journey, no matter what the outcome. Everybody has to be allowed to process it and mourn and deal with it in their own way.
3 December 2020 Liz Phair It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn’t done. And I felt it, too.
