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My dad's whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we did not have that big Indian community. I do not really have anything interesting to say about it. When I talk about it people are like, meh, let's talk about something else.

I am like a kid. I tell my family and friends I am like a kid.

You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.

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 did not look like anybody else, I did not even look like any member of my family.

A rumor that followed me forever was that my family was in the mafia. For years I had to live with it. They had call me the mafia princess, so I rolled with it for the rest of high school. People even joke about it today.

Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch American Idol and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.

My whole family is very sarcastic and constantly making jokes.

My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.

Here is the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family.

Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand!

In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.

My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.

One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. One-size-fits-all, and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is slavery.

Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit... Santa, who was jolly - but, let's face it, he was also very judgmental.

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

My family were from Jamaica.

I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.

My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.

We'll be going to the fish market and a farmer's market this afternoon to get what we need to make and eat dinner as a family. I am trying to expose my kids to going to a farmers market or the fish market and learning what that is all about.