Quotes About Support

My friends are my second family. Sometimes friends can understand my problem but my family can't.

They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.

Children are victims of a social problem that wounds the family.

Let's start calling family violence 'terrorism' and then maybe we will start to see that investment of funding applied to where it needs to be.

I grew up with a big family. I want that. I want to have my own family.

Those who think the family has had its day should think again.

Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.

My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.

If you are really standing up for the family, you then have to say, how do we change our school system, how do we fix tax policy so that our families are supported?

My number one thing was that if I ever did get successful enough to make it, I wanted to be able to give back to my family.

My family has reduced the effect of my career on my self-esteem. When I'm with them, they make me feel special regardless of how I play.

My family is my biggest inspiration. My son, my husband, and my family inspire me to be better, do better, and live better.

This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It's just that simple.

Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat. No one knows you like the people you live with, and no one will take up your cause to the outside world quite like your blood relatives.

I am convinced that America's great sea of goodwill can be, in fact, a rising tide, a tide that could lift every veteran and every family of our wounded and fallen.

My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.

One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.

My family comes first before anything, they are everything to me.

Our job is, first and foremost, to make sure our family is whole.

Divorce is fairly common these days, and I think many times people disregard the emotional impact that divorce has on a couple and a family, because it happens so frequently.

I see the friends I made over the years who have become family today, people I became acquainted with who have achieved so much in their lives. They taught me something with each meeting.

People who were close to me - family and friends - they knew about my sexuality.

Let us all reaffirm our commitment to improving the well- being of families throughout the world.

If you don't have the gift of a loving supportive family, be that gift for someone else. It doesn't have to be a relative, just someone you know who is alone or hurting over the holiday.