If we had loads of money as a family, things would be different and they'd come to visit more and I'd get to spend more time here. But I'm laying down roots in America so when I'm there, just being at home, it's harder to break away from that.

Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.

When I go back to France now I spend all the my time with press and sponsors. I do not have a lot of time to spend at home with my family.

Am I calm all the time? That is a question to ask my mother. I am very happy in my home. I have a good family, that gives me something extra.

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.

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.

The things that make me happy most are my family and working.

I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.

I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don't fall into the trap of changing and modifying how I do things that aren't a positive example. I want to remain somebody that the entire family can listen to or watch.

My entire family were Democrats all our lives. But because how furious I was about the previous administration, I turned in my card to become a Republican. I did not want to be known as a Democrat under that person's regime.