Quotes about "Family & Parenting"

Public schools in the late '80s and early '90s were a total mess... we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district that actually served its children. ”

My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure... I started bartending and waitressing. ”

I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx. ”

To me, what socialism means is to guarantee a basic level of dignity. It's asserting the value of saying that the America we want and the America that we are proud of is one in which all children can access a dignified education. It's one in which no person is too poor to have the medicines they need to live. ”

When I was getting injured so much, I spoke to my family and my manager and said, 'I need my body to recover.' The first thing I thought was that I needed to stay upright. When I went back to Brazil to play, after a few months, my body was perfect. ”

Throughout my childhood, and thanks to Arsenal's former striker Thierry Henry and other French players, I always dreamed of playing for this club, so that dream has been fulfilled. ”

I really want to be in the final to play in front of my family and friends, but it's not only that. I came to Arsenal because I want to win trophies. So to play in the final is important. ”

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. ”

I had to marry a Greek; I had to stir up the ethnic pot. Otherwise, my children would have been anemic and sickly. Now they've got some good Mediterranean blood in them. ”

I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think. ”