I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.
LeBron JamesA good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Gilbert K. ChestertonFamily and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.
John C. MaxwellThe mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation.
Eleanor RooseveltThere can never be any stop to learn about different cultures by travelling to different places. And whatever comes your way, continue the healthy eating habits.
Sunil ChhetriMost country songs, certainly all the stuff I’ve written, are stories driven by characters.
Dolly PartonWe think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
Mother TeresaI was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.
Michelle ObamaWe will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.
Dan QuayleJohn D. Rockefeller apparently became more of a tightwad the richer he got. I don’t know if it is true, but one story I read was about one of his sons having to wear his older sister’s clothes in order to save money.
Robert KiyosakiI like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I’ve got a lot of that in me as well.
Joel OsteenChildren make your life important.
Erma BombeckThe mainstream is always under attack.
Bill GatesI don’t plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn’t be a closed system – it’s a quest.
Kurt VonnegutChristmas morning, I’m going to open presents with my kids. I’m going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I’m going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.
Kobe BryantI have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.
Stephen HawkingThe Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.
Joe BidenI imagine I will spend my days traveling from country to country to visit our children, who I expect will live around the world.
Angelina JolieFeels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.
Adam SandlerMy stories run up and bite me on the leg – I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.
Ray BradburyWhen I’m writing, I don’t feel neurotic. So it’s better for the family if I’m working.
Paul AusterLet not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
Mahatma GandhiI have always enjoyed watching my songs make people cry.
AuroraWe’ve got to keep our eye on what’s happening with Russia and North Korea. We cannot lose sight of domestic policy, either. Healthcare. Immigration. Climate change.
Kamala HarrisMy father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
Aldous HuxleyThanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
Erma BombeckCulture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.
Paulo CoelhoI take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.
Angelina JolieFor a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.
Marilyn MonroeHistory shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.
Lady GagaI used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.
Kevin GatesIf my life was a movie, no one would believe it.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerPart of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.
Taylor SwiftI can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.
Karl LagerfeldI sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.
Adam SandlerDo not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.
Mark TwainMy grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn’t speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind – like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.
Frank OceanThat summer after the draft was probably the most fun I’ve ever had, because all I had to do every day was wake up and go work out for four or five hours. I got to play some golf, which I love to do, too, and then got to hang out with my family.
Stephen CurryThe more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.
Stephen CoveyThe decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. I remember my mum taking me to the first Tarzan film, which starred Johnny Weissmuller, and bursting into tears. It wasn’t what I had imagined at all.
Jane GoodallCoffee is a language in itself.
Jackie ChanMy son is becoming me – just a silly, silly prankster guy.
Kevin HartMy mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he’s just started to understand that something’s wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn’t bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.
Huey NewtonMy own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It’s just a matter of joining the dots.
Terry PratchettThe African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.
Albert SchweitzerCulture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
Thomas CarlyleIt was a privilege to pray with Governor Romney – for his family and our country.
Billy GrahamI now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it’s like therapy for me.
J. ColeMadame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
Ernest HemingwayWhoever does not have a good father should procure one.
Friedrich NietzscheThe first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.
Ray BradburyOne of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.
Stephen CoveyI started writing as a child. But I didn’t think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something – no, maybe junior – and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.
Alice WalkerMy parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers‘ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.
Joel OsteenHomer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
AristotleA bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
Jerry SeinfeldMy father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.
Gordon RamsayA grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
Erma BombeckI’m happy that I have my family, and I’m happy that I had Virginia, where I grew up, to retreat to any time I felt overwhelmed. Whenever there were times when I felt like the rug was being pulled out from under me and I was floating in this crazy space, I would stop and go back to that neighborhood and realize nothing’s changed, really.
Dave Grohl