Choices Quote by Jesmyn Ward

Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all,…

— Albert Camus

To my mind, when the Partition happened, the generation of my parents worked to ensure livelihood and better life for their children.

— Dalip Tahil

We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

My home and my upbringing and just the problems in my family within my extended family were such that it truly was a mix…

— Beth Moore

I mean my life was a combination of fascination with other people, with politics, and with policy, and the impact of government decisions on…

— William J. Clinton

Everything I know about work and opportunity, I learned from my parents. They risked everything to ensure my family and I could have a…

— Alex Padilla

My grandparents were wealthy; my mom was not. I would walk into these worlds of privilege and then walk back into this other world.…

— Jacqueline Woodson

There was a lot of turmoil in my family.

— Tiffany Darwish

I've always been so interested in personal history. I'm very fascinated by my parents' and my grandparents' generations. I seem to think that they…

— Joyce Carol Oates

We had all the advantages of being in, you know, the '50s and the '60s, where a one-income household could actually support a family.…

— Jill Stein

My family life and early political life - being exposed to the news constantly, being enrolled in an Afrocentric education program, and doing the…

— Baratunde Thurston

With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many…

— C. S. Lewis