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"733 Family Quotes

My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'

Family Full Good Means
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My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.

Family Figure How Integral
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I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.

1960s Am Both Civil
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.

American Experiences Individuals Parents
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I love being a wife and homemaker - because it's my choice. My husband doesn't expect me to do it. I don't mind doing things for him because he does so much for me; we both feel that way so there is no power struggle.

Because Being Both Choice
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I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

Children Everybody Just Marriage
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At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.

Causes Family Important Involved
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I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

Any Dad Had He
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Holidays are the best. I couldn't imagine being from a small family.

Holidays Are Best The
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I definitely want kids and I want four kids, for sure. But I need to find a husband first!

Definitely Want Kids Four
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I have sister issues and parent issues and all sorts of things.

Have I Sisters Issues
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I always put clothes and family photos under the mattress, in case the house burns down.

Always Put Clothes Family
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If I look at the message I'm portraying, I think it definitely is be who you are, but be your best you.

Message Portraying Think Definitely
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I think if I'm 40 and I don't have any kids and I'm not married, I would have a baby artificially inseminated. I would feel like Mary - like Jesus is my baby.

Think Kids Have Married
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I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well.

Children Desire Well Either
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All I knew growing up was that my father was married to and loved my momma, period. He worked hard, made some money, and put it on the dresser. She spent it on the family, and he went out and earned some more. He taught me the most about love.

About Dresser Earned Family
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

Back Cannot Children Responsible
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My father instilled in me to take care of my family. Show up even when you don't want to show up.

Care Even Family Father
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I tell my boys not to play rough with their younger sister. I try to teach them what I know already: You're never going to win an argument with a girl, so just let her have what she wants!

Argument Boy Girl Going
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My marriage to Marjorie is the most rewarding thing that ever happened to me. She gave me a life and a relationship that I didn't know existed.

Ever Existed Gave Happened
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You've got to be vulnerable when you're talking to kids. There's nothing worse than some adult standing up there just talking down to some kid. You can't work that way.

Adult Down Got Just
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

Afraid Alone Good Marriage
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I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen at my father's knees. I have not yet begun to put away from me the enticements of my former riotous living.

Am Away Begun Entrusted
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

Celibacy Course He Man
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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Children Feel Intensely Needs
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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

Any Cannot Childhood Father
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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

Been Conqueror Favorite Feeling
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But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!

Become Century Disintegration Family
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Family home evening is more for the purpose of teaching values and gospel principles, displaying talents and enjoying different kinds of family fun and activities.

Activities Different Different Kinds Displaying
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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.

Accepted Family Female Friends
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My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.

Being Born College Go
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Being the youngest, I was a bit of a mama's boy. I was really protected as I grew up, almost like I was in a bubble.
Almost Being Bit Boy
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As I grew up, Dad was more involved in training than promoting. He brought the same style to his training that he did to being a father - strong and strict.

Being Brought Dad Did
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When I started wrestling, I hounded my dad to teach me. Eventually, he gave in, but he was careful to instill in me a respect for other wrestlers. He wanted to be sure I wasn't going to hurt anyone.

Anyone Careful Dad Eventually
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My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn't any consistency.

Dad Was Never Married
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No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you're going to bump into somebody that makes you go, 'Hmm, I don't mind seeing this person every day.'

No Man Wants Settle
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I don't take pictures when I'm with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It's important when you're as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you're with them, and nothing compromises that. I've been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.

Take Pictures When Kid
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My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it's about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn't. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don't take what they have for granted.

Kids Coming Up Different
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I can tell you in all honesty that I am highly connected to my family, my wife, and my three children, though I don't get to spend dollops of hours with them.

Am Children Connected Family
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Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

College Employer Finds Get
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There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children.

Any Believe Children Illegitimate
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We're African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

African-American Assume Bad Bad Situation
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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

Deserve Father Love Love You
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The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

Always Democrat Father His
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The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

Family Family Life Greatest Greatest Thing
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I had a baby and stayed home for a couple of years, and I was really casting about, thinking, 'What am I going to do?' My husband's view of it was, 'Stay home... We'll have more children; you'll love this.' And I was very restless about it.

About Am Baby Casting
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Growing up, my mother and grandparents often talked about our family's Native American heritage. As a kid, I never thought to ask them for documentation - what kid would?

About American Ask Documentation
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You have to remember: what are incomes to banks are outgoes to families.

Banks Families Incomes Remember
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If you don't talk about families, then it's easy to disembody subprime mortgages and asset securitization and unemployment rates without remembering that every one of those numbers is a million families.

About Asset Easy Every
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My brothers and I grew up on stories about our grandfather building one-room schoolhouses and about our grandparents' courtship and their early lives together in Indian Territory.

About Brothers Building Courtship
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