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I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.

If I'm watching television and the cable goes out, I tell myself, 'OK, I'll read a book. Family matters, not possessions.'

I think this is just another avenue to put ideas through -- it's the same approach I take when I produce and write songs. I wanted to take it to the family television and the DVD world.

You go up there every time. Just like you guys have families, if you're at the game and you turn around and see someone pushing your wife and getting into it with your wife, I don't think you're going to worry about what the score is.

My mom, two brothers, their families, my grandmother, my aunt and my uncle are all in a like a 25-square foot house with no power and a tree on top of it,

I focused on the negative - I was concerned about him and his family. From my perspective, he had spent eight years working tremendously hard as governor. He's got more time to spend with his family.

And I think that that emphasis on keeping a family together, alike, I think it's important.

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.

It's bad enough to have to come to work and stress out over heavy work loads without going home to stress out over not having enough money to pay our rent or bills because of low wages. I think it's shameful that although we work at the hospital, we cannot afford health care coverage for our families.

I think there will probably be a lot of guys. Like baseball a few years back, guys who are bubble players, who don't have 5 million in the bank that need this for their career, for their families, they may look at this as an opportunity.

Oddly, because she has that confidence, the people around her like her more. She becomes more a part of the Reaper family, and she also is able to get along with people more outside of their circle as well.

I've gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a similar situation. I've wronged her and I've wronged the family. Because when these things happen, it doesn't just happen to you, it happens to the people around you and the family.

Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well.

The bonds of family, whether between mother and son, mother and daughter, or among siblings, will be explored in the 15 plays to be presented at the Stratford Festival in 2006,

Without those days they can't progress forward into the next grade, so that's a concern of a lot of families too. That their child's education is going to progress at the same pace that it's supposed to.

Offer service and receive love. This is the recipe for experiencing Divinity. Our love should not be confined to our kith and kin. It must extend beyond the family to society as a whole, then to the nation at large and finally embrace the whole world.

Every injury or death from gunfire is not only a personal, family tragedy but also a significant expense borne by us, the citizens of Miami-Dade County,

Our real identity is one which appeals to the traditional families, hard-working young couples, the pensioners and students of Britain.

It's been very hard. You look back on the things that you love and what happened last year here in Florida, the critical things that people go through. Then to have that happen to your family, it's harder to know that I can't do anything about it. Nobody

He's a young man. He has a life, he has a family. He's closing this book.

Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the bruised shins of the playground, the small fears that come with dusk, the streets and squares and monuments and shops that constitute one's first universe.

We just take everything one day at a time. We're happy to have them here. A lot of people don't have any family or friends at all.

I have known this man for 30 years -- that's a long time. He's a family man, and I can't believe anyone would shoot him down like that.

There has always been opposition to these types of things. When Theodore Roosevelt declared the Grand Canyon as a national monument it later was made a national park, my family was among the objectors. Now everybody claims on behalf of their ancestors that they encouraged it. These are places of enormous and enduring value.

I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

In Brooklyn, it was as though you were in your own little bubble. You were all part of one big, but very close family, and the Dodgers were the main topic of everybody's conversations and you could sense the affection people had for you. I don't know that such a thing exists anymore.

It's really hard for the families where both parents have to work. I feel for them.

We don't have the family organization the way we used to. My father lives with us because we have the room. The greatest of all opportunities for our children is a complete family unit.

It was fun in Sacramento, man. The way they played basketball was great. It's a great place for a family, a great place when it comes to unselfish team basketball. Those guys really pass the ball, really work with each other.

There's excitement that builds up when you have an opportunity to bring another championship back to the city of Pittsburgh. Everybody joins in. I'm a big Crosby fan. I have his jersey. You just hop on. You want to be part of the excitement. We'll be right there with our jerseys on supporting those guys as well. That's just how the city of Pittsburgh is. We're all one big family.

In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.

My wife and I have lived in Lake Forest for over eight years. We love Lake Forest and serving on the Historic Preservation Committee is a chance to give back some of what this community has given to our family.

If we don't have any families show up here, we will send the money to a victims' relief fund.

It had to be done. In North County, we have a crisis with a lot of boys and girls, and their families, not having a place to lay their heads down at night. The average age of the people were served last year was 8.

The Columbia years are the most sentimental for me. My parents were together through most of that time and we were a happy, sort of normal family.

The pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communities.

As the water recedes there will be damage assessment. Family services go out to see what people have lost, helping to replace furniture, beds, etc.

We have not made any assumptions and for the sake of Jean Charles' family, officers within the MPS and the public at large, will try to establish the truth in an impartial, proportionate and timely way.

This is joyous news for Marc and our family. At the same time, our immediate concern remains with Bob (Woodruff) ... and the entire Woodruff family as we hope and pray for continuing good news about his recovery.

Like her husband and his unparalleled contribution to cause of civil rights, Coretta Scott King deserves our thanks for being a icon for family unity. Even after facing the greatest tragedy that can befall a family, she continued to raise, mold and shape her own children and maintain a family legacy that we can all be proud of. She has taught us great things.

(He was) just a hard-working kid that kept his mouth shut. Sensitive guy. My heart goes out to his whole family. It's just a tragedy. He was a super nice guy. That's all you can say. I don't think anyone would ever have a bad word to say about Jason.

Those folks we've been able to make contact with, we'll start scheduling a time to meet with them and we will probably go to where they are. There's not a need (to bring them to Oxford) from my part. But they may in fact want to and they may want to bring their family. I'm not exactly sure what they'll want to do.

The Orlando parks and Six Flags have raised their prices. At a time when families are low on cash, we have them come here and not spend a ton of money as they would going to a vacation farther away.

Reactions most of the time are congratulations, God bless you and they say if you can handle a family of 12 children, you can handle the state finances.

Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.

I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.

They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family.

Lamott is an unstoppable storyteller, whether writing about church-going with a sullen adolescent or reconciling with her late mother. She rages against the Iraq war but takes comfort from her sage-like Presbyterian minister, who says faith is not about how we feel it is about how we live. ... Rule 1 We are all family. Rule 2 You reap exactly what you sow, that is, you cannot grow tulips from zucchini seeds. Rule 3 Try to breathe every few minutes or so. Rule 4 It helps beyond words to plant bulbs in the dark of winter. Rule 5 It is immoral to hit first.

Life is getting ready to hit them upside the head. If you think losing to Florida is bad try to get married, raise a family and pay the bills. Being in college is about trying to develop a philosophy and trying to develop goals about how you want to attack life.

Being a father of three young girls, I read the Austin article and instantly thought of what I could do for his family. It was not an option not to get involved.