“In 1977, at age ten, I was cast on the TV sitcom 'Good Times.' My character was Penny, an abused child in desperate need of love. I really didn't want to do the show. I didn't want to be away from my family.” WantNeedsChildrenCharacterShowsAgeTvsTenMy FamilyCastsDesperateGood TimesPenniesSitcomAbused Children Book:True You Source: True You
“From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.” PeopleAgeYoungUsedHouseLaughingListeningMomMy FamilyMy MomDisplayYoung AgeMaking People LaughLaughs And Smiles Author:Lara Pulver
“Because of my age and what I do for a living and the amount of time that I've spent away from my family and loved ones, I'm starting to relate more to the late-period Kerouac stuff in the way that I once related to the fun and excitement of the early material. There's a darkness inside of me that I'm only now starting to come to grips with and accept. And it's starting to scare me.” WayAgeFunStuffAcceptingDarknessMaterialsAmountPeriodsLateMy FamilyStartingRelateExcitementRelatedScareLoved OnesDarkness Inside Author:Ben Gibbard
“I love the book signings, you know, because I get to talk to real people, and a staggering number of people have said something very specific to me. "The Family Leave Law saved my family," or "Made our lives better," or, "The education aid that you provided made it possible for me to go to college." One man at 50 years of age got his college degree.” PeopleKnowsMenYearsMadeSaidBookRealAgeLawNumbersOur LivesCollegeDegreesMy FamilyAidsSavedMade ItOne ManSigningStaggeringCollege Degree Author:William J. Clinton
“I never had time to do anything for myself. I've always had to subordinate my energy and time to the demands of my husband and children at any given moment. And now old age has crept up on me and I have used up all my mental and physical strength on my family.” ChildrenMomentsAgeUsedEnergyGivenSacrificeHusbandDemandMy FamilyOld AgeMy HusbandSubordinatesPhysical Strength Author:Sophia Tolstaya
“I always had a good dexterity. The story in my family goes that at the age of 3 I could thread needles faster than anybody.” StoriesAgeMy FamilyFasterThreadNeedlesDexterity Author:Judith Leiber
“Having lots of members of my family who were in ministry in one form or another, I suppose it shouldn't be surprising that at quite an early age, I was very, very conscious personally of the love of God.” AgeFormMembersConsciousMy FamilyGod LoveSurprisingMinistry Author:N. T. Wright
“I was somebody who was 14 years old and who got an opportunity to do a job where I could make money, and, most important, to go to school and to help my family financially. And luckily I was successful in my job, thank God. And there were a lot of people my age who didn't have that freedom I had and I'm grateful.” PeopleYearsImportantHelpingAgeSchoolJobsOpportunitySuccessfulMy FamilyGratefulMaking MoneyThank God Author:Gisele Bundchen
“All I'd ever heard my entire life in my family was, "Nobody wanted you, and we took you in." When you get that into your head at a tender age, you really feel like you are an unlovable human being, and then you behave like one. That's exactly what I had done. It took me many years to deal with my own violence and find my own niche.” FeelsYearsHumansDoneAgeWantedMy OwnHuman BeingsDealsViolenceHeardLike YouMy FamilyBehaveNicheUnlovable Author:Sam Hamill
“Sure, at that age [of 7] you may have seen movies with guns and crime but by then I also knew something strange was happening in my family because it all changed drastically after the killing of Rodrigo Lara.” MayAgeCrimeChangedStrangeHappeningsGunMy FamilyKilling Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“At a young age, I became very aware that not only did my family have to struggle but that families around the country were struggling as well. Also, being Jewish and having lost relatives in the Holocaust, I've always been aware of the meaning of prejudice. These are things that have remained with me throughout my political career.” WellsCountryAgeYoungPoliticalLostCareersStruggleMy FamilyPrejudiceHolocaustYoung Age Author:Bernie Sanders
“I don't think I've ever signed onto anything as quickly as I did The Hollars, because I come from a really loving, well-connected family, where we see each other all the time. And when I was done with this script, I was like, "Oh my god, that's my family!" This is obviously a very dysfunctional family, but there was something about it that was sort of universal. And I think that in this day and age in today's world - there's a lot of drama out there. It's nice to tell stories about things as simple and powerful as family.” ThinkingWorldDoneAgeSimplePowerfulNiceDramaMy FamilyThis DayDysfunctional Family Author:John Krasinski
“I was very fortunate at a young age to learn what goal setting is and how to take time and spend it the right way. I have a lot going on now, but I want my family to have everything I had growing up and more, and yeah, for me to do that there are times when I need to jump on a plane and travel around the world in a week. But also, it's like, if I start getting burnt out, I know when I need to take a break. Your body tells you; just listen to what your heart is saying.” WorldHeartAgeGoalBreakGrowing UpWeekMy FamilyTake TimeSetting GoalsJust Listen Author:Michael Phelps
“Dearest Charles-- I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to you as I am mourning for my lost innocence. It never looked like living. The doctors despaired of it from the start... I am never quite alone. Members of my family keep turning up and collecting luggage and going away again, but the white raspberries are ripe. I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits. Love or what you will. S.” WantLoveWritingMindAgeFoundLostWhiteBearsHabitMembersPaperPicksMy FamilyDoctorsBoxesInnocenceMourningGoing AwayItalianCollectingRipeVeniceBad HabitsWant HimLuggageGood MindRaspberriesCharles I Author:Evelyn Waugh
“The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.” PeopleIfsWorldNeedsFeelsBelieveChildrenPersonsSaidTwoEnoughAgeYoungMotherFatherI BelieveParentBornFamilyBreakSecurityEmotionalMy FamilyMereDuesVarietyOur FamilyIsolationUnitsTemperamentAbout FamilyLarge FamilyFamily ReunionFunny Family ReunionFamily UnitFamily BondKinfolk Author:Pearl S. Buck
“I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'” AgeMy FamilyWork OutOld AgeLungs Author:Cher