Quotes About Support

My family and my friends are most important to me. These people are my foundation.

When I do public speaking, I ask the audience, "Who has a family member, a neighbor, a friend with some form of disability?" Every single hand goes up. We're all connected.

If every Christian family brought in a child who needed a family we would put the foster care system out of business.

I talk to my parents more than anybody in my family.

Everyone in my family is a hero to me.

It's peaceful to think about the family as a group. I totally believe in extended families.

Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. (as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994)

I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.

The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family.

How we treat our invalids - our mad, our physically or mentally compromised family members - does tell you something about who we are politically, historically, culturally.

I know you hear horror stories about child actors, but I think in my family when I did start acting it was never a big deal.

I'm very fortunate that I have a wonderful family around me and loved ones.

I told myself that some families we get without asking, while others we choose. And I chose those two. I think that's what you'd call a silver lining.

What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed there, regardless.

Pack is for comfort when you hurt, I thought, putting my head back down. And for the first time in a long time, maybe the first time ever, I appreciated being a part of one.

You always draw inspiration from your family or your parents if they've proven to be inspirational. My mother is someone who's always been inspirational to me.

I grew up not really having anything, so the idea that I can take care of my family and my friends now is a really cool bonus.

At the end of the day, I only trust my family.

My principal motivation is supporting my family, which is not a bad reason for getting up in the morning. That's always been my motivation - to take care of the people who rely on me.

I'm surrounded by friends and family who are not that impressed by celebrity. They don't have any problem telling me I'm acting like an idiot or I'm not that funny.

That's what you do for family. Anything.

Community is like a big family.

There are others whose lives are blessed when a missionary serves, such as the members of his family who support him, pray for him, and try to live worthy of him.

Family is the one thing that is definitely not disposable.