A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction. 834
When I’m on my own, I can be negative. I need my friends and family around to help pick me up if I’ve had a bad qualifying session. I think insecurity plagues a lot of sportspeople. 2.46K
My mom always said I was the peacemaker in the family. My older brother, Eric, was the leader, the creative one. I was just his puppet. 935
Frankly I’m fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else. 621
My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy. 680
The monarchy is foremost a business, and it’s important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless ‘royal’ family. I find it very sad. 1.09K
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. 665
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. 621
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares. 780
And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure. 765
I’ve been through a lot of things in my personal and family life. That turned me into a fighter. I always strive to be the best I possibly can. 712
I was the first actress in the family, and I am still the only actress in the family. I shouldn’t be saying it, but it slipped out! 590
The best thing I’ve done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody. 786
I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better. 608
From those to whom much is given, much is expected. I have been given much – the love of my family, the faith and trust of the people of New York, and the chance to lead this state. I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me. 839
Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it’s not bestowed on you by the royal family, it’s not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public. 840
