Sentences with phrase «never have a family of»

I never had a family of my own.

But instead of bemoaning the fact I would never have a family of my own I decided that I just had to accept the loss of that dream and find a new one.

Not exact matches

«With our daughters, I never raised them how I was raised [with the assumption they'd join the family business,]» says Oddo, who has written a book on the principles of parenting.

Many entrepreneurs have never heard of a «family office,» but this type of funding source could be just what you're looking for.

Kirsch's goals for the program are lofty, not only ending the cycle of poverty for the families involved, but also giving dignity and self - respect back to people who have never before caught a break or been told that they have what it takes to succeed.

The Murdoch family have never wavered in their ambition to take full control of Sky, despite the damaging failure of a previous attempt five years ago when their British newspaper business became embroiled in a phone - hacking scandal.

Though she never expressed second thoughts about her chosen path — she'd dropped out of Smith College to get married and start a family — others sometimes did.

«These guys have grand plans and goals for their work, but they never have a money plan,» says Kay, family finance expert and author of «The 60 - Minute Money Workout.»

It was also worded in an unwieldy way, putting Ms Mead's fate in the hands of Mr Lemon whom she had never met and had close ties with other family members, which was unreasonable, Master Sanderson said.

Family members of a slain employee in Tennessee said they «never once imagined that this would touch anyone high up in the Papa John's corporate office, let alone John Schnatter.»

Ben Chestnut, meanwhile, grew up watching his mother and sister run a beauty salon out of the family's kitchen — and learned never to spend more than the cash he had on hand.

Although he grew up in a family of entrepreneurs that goes back three generations, he had never received much encouragement to start a business of his own.

And being able to go around the country and see the impact that my company and my work has done — teenage girls saying they love to play games because of me, and families saying, «we picked up a tabletop game because of [Geek & Sundry show] Tabletop,» and college kids who come up and say, «Hey, I'm really glad you made The Guild because I never knew I could say that I was a gamer until you made that» — that's why you need to be creative, whether it's on a large or small scale.

«I would never take her to a kennel, so I'd go frantically down the list of family, friends and neighbors every time a business trip came up,» he says.

«While I never expected to have this heightened platform — and stepping into the political fray was daunting — I recognized both the privilege and the opportunity to use my voice to dramatically advance an important conversation that benefits parents and families nationwide,» she wrote, emphasizing the importance of paid family leave.

There's also significant evidence that this newfound coverage has allowed previously uninsured people to access all sorts of basic medical treatments that they never used before, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF).

I would start offering these services to friends, family members, neighbors, and colleagues, since they would probably rather hire you instead of someone that they've never met.

Employees say: «Out of all the places I've worked so far in my life, I've never experienced the sense of family and mutual respect that I have here.

Free Press President and CEO Craig Aaron, however, said Pai has «never met a mega-merger he didn't like or a public safeguard he didn't try to undermine,» calling him «an inveterate opponent of net neutrality, expanded broadband access for low - income families, broadband privacy, prison - phone justice, media diversity and more.»

This acknowledgement, that employees have family responsibilities outside of work, is beneficial for employee retention and well - being, and we should never regress into the antiquated «you must always be in your desk from 9:00 to 5:00» mentality.

And while Chen — who made his fortune in the recycling business and bills himself as «The Most Influential Person of China,» «China Earthquake Rescue Hero,» «Most Charismatic Philanthropist of China,» and «Demolition Expert,» among other descriptions — admitted that he has never heard of Rupert Murdoch, he cited the Sulzberger family as the ideal media proprietors and stewards he would most like to emulate.

I'm 14 I should never have had to deal with any of this and even though I thought it couldn't get worse it has because of your family.

There was no reference to the carbon tax in their platform, and they never told Albertans they were going to slam the province that would raise the price of nearly everything: groceries for your family, utility bills to heat your home, and gas to drive your kids to hockey practice.

I wish I had never been «found» by them and could be left in peace instead of being told of the dramas in her family which are of no interest at all to me.

I can not start a family of my own because I have never known either romantic or unconditional love — not ever.

I just looked at the picture of Gersten's tremendous extended family, and realized that they never would have been without the kindness and bravery of Polziec and his family.

I thought about my family — the thought of never seeing them again, and my regrets for never settling down and having a family of my own.

«We trust in God's love and mercy for those who've died but for the families left behind this is the most terrible time from which many of them may never recover.»

I have sat with people dying, and they never spoke of anything other than their need to connect with their loved ones and family.

This was part of the Torah, and it ensured that slavery was never generational, and that each family had its own land.

but i could never get over the scripted nature of the rituals, and how blindly my family believed in something that they'd never seen, touched, heard, etc..

Additionally, the families of the three murdered Jewish teenagers have spoken eloquently and with great dignity and passion in saying that there should never be thoughts of revenge.

A person is never going to fully agree theologically, in every way, with any community of believers however, when choosing a community for myself and my family to be a part of, I certainly looked for the church which had the most points of agreement.

The father - of - three and his family, who have fought with immense dignity despite scandalously poor treatment by the police, will never escape the pain of what happened.

Lord Carlile also spoke to a woman named only as «Pauline» who had been the adoptive daughter of the Bell family's housekeeper and had lived within the palace itself, but was never interviewed by the original investigation.

A friend of mine who was taken from her family by the Scoop testifies about sisters and brothers she's never met, a mother who fell apart in their absence (who wouldn't?)

I have never been so quickly hated, defamed, cut off from friends and family, lied about in private circles when I am not present in order to alter others» perception of me, etc etc, as when I have threatened the facade of a narcissist.

Such a development would fall outside the whole moral history of humanity that, whatever the diverse legal forms, has never lost sight of the fact that marriage is essentially the special communion of man and woman, which opens itself to children and thus to family.

Growing up, Flournoy says that he always believed the Mormon view of Jesus: «I never had any sort of inkling that there was something else out there that could be more true than Mormonism, because my family and church leaders seemed to be of sound mind.

While nobody wants to lose a son or daughter (or any family member for that matter), the pain of it would be significantly lessened, it seems, if we knew that we would receive our lost loved ones back within three days, and they would be fully healthy and whole and would never suffer or die again.

But in the terms of what we have learned from Matthew 12:46 - 50, the choice is never between the family and me; it is always, in family matters, between families.

That has never stopped parents from exercising their right to choice, and children are still murdered every year in the secrecy of the family home, or mysteriously found drowned in a car, or beaten to death a dumped in the woods with the parents claiming kidnapping.

Mostly, folks in other parts of the world are too busy working and taking care of their own families to feel any sense of guilt for not shipping dollars across the ocean to folks whom they have never met.

I sang loudly and more or less on key, and because my father was organist and choir director of the various Lutheran churches we attended during my boyhood, I was always drafted for the children's choir and occasionally even given a semi-prominent role, but I was never as good as my family heritage or personal eagerness might have predicted.

I have never had anyone react the way you have on this blog outside of family members and the Methodist pastor and his wife.

The majority of people in the developed world don't have a day - to - day battle on their hands to survive but the instinct never goes away and it's in proportion with the situation; self, family, friends, community, country and the level of threat.

This is nevertheless a meaningless affirmation if it is not cognizant of the fact that family life is under assault, that as a result many people feel alienated from their families and have never found viable substitutes, that their experience within our technological society has left them feeling a profound sense of dissatisfaction with themselves from which they urgently seek escape through drugs, sex, or recreation.

About knowing about my religion, well considering I was raised in a strong religious family my grandmother would have me sit in the kitchen on the weekends so I could read the bible all day so yeah I can say I have read the whole bible a couple of times, never found it interesting, the only part I liked was Revelations.

But when he becomes immersed in full - time ministry, and the job is never done, and he has not prayed enough nor done enough for his family, the chances are that he develops «hosts of friends» but has no real friend, even another minister, with whom he can share the gripes that one does share only with a real personal friend.

I do understand why the sight of two homosexuals holding hands at a concert might have turned the stomach of a hardworking, dedicated churchwoman I know who has never in her life committed an act or espoused a position that her family, church, and society at large couldn't warmly approve; still, it's hard to forgive a human revulsion that won't question itself.