“As a relatively young woman - I'm 33 - I hope to one day have a family and already have commitments. If and when I'm elected as an MP, I would face a choice: take my family with me to London each week or be apart for four, maybe five, nights a week.” IfsFacesYoungNightChoicesFiveFourWeekOne DayCommitmentMy FamilyLondonYoung WomenIfs AndMps Author:Lucy Powell
“In '87 - four years after 'Sports' was released - my family and I began vacationing in Montana. I soon bought my first piece of land in Ravalli County, in the western part of the state.” YearsFirstsStatesSportsPiecesFourLandMy FamilyWesternFour YearsCountyMontana Author:Huey Lewis
“I tend to be pretty efficient with my time. I work on a novel for four to five hours a day, and then the rest of my day is spent doing other things, whether it's spending time with my family, or going through and making notes on the script, or working on the marketing. It's just a matter of scheduling.” MatterHoursNovelFiveFourMy FamilyNotesMarketingScriptsSpendingMy TimeEfficientSpending TimeScheduling Author:Nicholas Sparks
“My family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons... It wasn't forced on me. It was something I wanted to do. And ever since, I've never stopped, I've never stopped playing music. I never went through a period where I didn't want to do it.” WantYearsWantedMotherFourPeriodsLessonsMy FamilyMusicalPianoFour YearsPlaying MusicPiano Lesson Author:John Legend
“When I was four years old some friends of my family took me to see 'Fantasia' and I was totally blown away. From that minute on I wanted to be an animator.” YearsWantedFourMinutesMy FamilyFour YearsAnimatorBlown AwayFantasia Author:David Bolinsky
“My family suffered very major losses during the Second World War, that's true. In my father's family, there were five brothers. I think four of them died. On my mother's side the picture was pretty much the same. Russia has suffered great losses. And of course we can't forget that.” ThinkingWorldWarMotherCoursesFatherSidesLossForgetFiveFourBrotherMajorsMy FamilyDiedRussiaWar Of The WorldsSecond World WarGreat Loss Author:Vladimir Putin
“The dark night of the soul for me was one night in Florida, when I had been on the road for about four years and I realized that everybody around me was on my payroll, that my old friends hadn't been in touch with me and my family didn't know where to get me. I was a very unhappy guy and it was because I was really alone.” KnowsYearsSoulNightGuyDarkFourMy FamilyI RealizedUnhappyFour YearsFloridaOne NightOld FriendsDark NightPayrollDark Night Of The Soul Author:Barry Manilow
“No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him.” YearsLittlesFatherFourAdultsMy FamilyFour YearsCousinMy CousinLittle Cousin Author:John Irving
“As a kid, I succumbed to peer pressure; I created an image of myself that was not true. But that belief system ended with the death of a close friend. It was then that I reached out for help from my father. It wasn't the teachings of The Four Agreements exactly, it was just my father's teachings in general. And because of this, I am grateful to continue my family's legacy. In this way, I say "thank you" to my family and teachers before me.” WayHelpingKidsFatherBeliefTeacherFourTeachingMy FamilyPressureGratefulLegacyAgreementPeersBelief SystemsClose FriendsPeer PressureSaying Thank YouI Am GratefulFour Agreements Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz
“My family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons.” YearsMotherFourLessonsMy FamilyMusicalPianoFour YearsPiano Lesson Author:John Legend
“And me having kids, with my family history? My mom: mentally ill, shot and killed her last husband. My father: six ex-wives, four heart attacks. Both of my parents think alcohol is a food group.” ThinkingHeartKidsLastsFatherParentFourWifeGroupsMomHusbandSixShotsMy FamilyIllMy MomAlcoholExesFamily HistoryHeart AttackMentally IllHaving KidsEx Wife Author:Christopher Titus
“A psychiatrist once asked me to draw a picture of my family. This is when I was a member of a family of four. I drew the three other people in the family first, bodies and heads. And then, last, I began to draw myself - but gave up.” PeopleFirstsBodyLastsThreeFourMembersDrawsMy FamilyGave UpPsychiatristFamily First Author:Jamaica Kincaid
“I come from making money in the streets. The streets all I know. All my family is still in the streets. So, it's going to be hard to pull me right back into that. When I ain't doing no shows four days out of the week, I may be in my hood or at my grandma's house in the hood. But yes, I got a kid. I got to get more serious about the music so he don't get dragged into that life.” KnowsMayStillsHardShowsKidsHouseFourWeekStreetsSeriousMy FamilyMaking MoneyGrandmaHoodMy GrandmaGrandma's House Author:Shy Glizzy
“I was born in St. Louis and lived in Pittsburgh for a bit, before my family moved to Nigeria, where they're from. We lived there for three or four years and came back to the States when I was about ten. I realised that I'd gone from place to place not fitting in. The thing that helped me fit in when moving around and not having a ton of friends was that I could make art. That was the through-line.” YearsArtStatesMovingThreeBitsBornLinesGoneFourFitTenMy FamilyMovedFour YearsRealisedFittingNigeriaPittsburghNot Fitting Author:Babatunde Adebimpe
“I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.” KidsHouseRoomsClassFourMiddleMy FamilyIncludingMiddle ClassNo Money Author:Patti Smith
“My family immigrated from Korea when I was four years old, and when I started school, I didn't speak English. I remember that other kids would blame everything bad that happened in kindergarten on me - I spent a lot of time "in the corner" because I literally didn't have the words to explain that it wasn't me!” YearsKidsSchoolRememberSpeakFourHappenedMy FamilyBlameCornersFour YearsKoreaKindergartenSpeak English Author:Jane Park
“The first Polaroid ever took of someone in my family was my son when he was about four years old.” YearsFirstsFourSonMy FamilyMy SonFour YearsPolaroids Author:Errol Morris
“My rule is, whatever you were calling me four years ago is what you should be calling me now, because I don't like it when my family or close friends call me Nicki Minaj. To me I'm not Nicki Minaj when I'm with them.” ShouldYearsFourCallingYears AgoMy FamilyCall MeFour YearsClose Friends Author:Nicki Minaj
“Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family. I've always been attracted to temporary families. They tend to be lost characters.” CharacterKidsLostFourStreetsBrotherMy FamilyTemporaryFour Brothers Author:Gus Van Sant
“From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.” ThinkingYearsHumansLooksFeltRaceFiveFourChildhoodPlanetsMembersComfortableMy FamilyAliensHuman RaceFive YearsTallSkinnyDisconnectedFive Year Olds Author:Patti Smith
“One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.” PeopleWayLooksImportantFamilyFourWallMy FamilyImportant ThingsThese DaysHospitalsThings In LifeAbout FamilyMost Important Things In LifeInspirational Family LoveBest FamilyFour WallsImportance Of Family Author:Robert Byrd
“There are videos where I would go approaching strangers and sing the songs from 'The Lion King. I would have been about four years, and I came running up to people on the beach, strangers that I chose at random and began to sing, and my family never knew where I was, they were always looking for me, trying to imagine who I was harassing this time .” PeopleTryingYearsHas BeensRunningSongFourImagineKingsMy FamilyStrangerVideoBeachLionsFour YearsLion King Author:Taylor Swift
“The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool.” KnowsFirstsLittlesEndsLeftBehindsKnow HowFourBalanceOne DayFirst TimeMy FamilyTablesLegsUnstableStoolsSturdy Author:Jodi Picoult
“To me, money is a means to do good. I reached a point in my life where I had enjoyed tremendous business success that afforded my family everything we could possibly want. My wife and I then decided that we could use our wealth to make a difference. So we created the Broad Foundations to do four things: to improve urban public education, to support innovative scientific and medical research, to foster art appreciation for audiences worldwide and to support civic initiatives in Los Angeles.” WantMeanArtUseDifferencesWealthMoneyBusinessSupportAudienceFourWifeResearchMy FamilyDecidedFoundationAppreciationMy WifeMedicalEnjoyedMaking A DifferenceLos AngelesBroadsInitiativeBusiness SuccessUrbanInnovativeCivicsPublic EducationMedical ResearchArt Appreciation Author:Eli Broad