That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

I’m not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God’s eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

I’ll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.

Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

I realized why directors are such horrible people – in a way – because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

Too many people treat parenting like it’s the 20th item on their to-do list.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

I’ve been through natural disasters. I lived down in Miami and was down there for Hurricane Andrew which was a Category 5. There were members of my family that thought they were going to die. Everyone was in the bathtub.

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.

Children make your life important.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all the curious details, all the so-called beautiful writing – if they are not truly relevant to what I am trying to say, then they have to go.

People who work for me know that family comes first. And I’m fortunate to have a family that is very supportive of the work I do, so I don’t have to live two separate lives.

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

I’m a day-to-day-type person.

Did you know there’s a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy – running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything – is the same as wasting your time? It’s frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!

In my heart, I’m just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I’m not a rich man.

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you’re in boom times.

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don’t think anyone in my family would really feel I’d done them an injustice by saying that. We didn’t see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time – the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate. I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

Delay is preferable to error.

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don’t want people to think that ‚Let’s Move‘ is about complete, utter deprivation. It’s about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

When I’m around the kids I feel like I act the most grown-up just because you’re supposed to. And I say things, like every other day, that remind me of my own parents.

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

I don’t know if I officially proofread my father’s book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.