Jonathan Franklin Quotes

It's equally as important to me to be a good friend and a good sister and a good daughter. I'm very close with my family and friends.

Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last years of life.

You know that family is going to be there for you no matter what. My dad gave me a freakin' kidney!

I always had a thing - just take care of family.

I need to take care of my mom and making sure she's financially OK. She's done so much for me, it's the least thing I can do.

One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.

I'm looking out for myself, but I'm looking out for my dad, too.

I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, 'One of these days I'm going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.' That's all I've ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

I gave three years of my life to take care of my dying mother who had Alzheimer's disease. Being there for her every need for three years might have looked codependent but it wasn't because it was what I wanted to do.

The only people that you really have, that I learned, are your family, because they love you no matter what.

I wanted to make a point of basing myself at home, being close to my family. I'll never be able to repay Mum and Dad for what they did, but at least they know they'll never have to work another day. I'll do whatever it takes to look after them.

My mother was always supportive.

I get so annoyed at people not looking after their parents. The deal is when we are growing up they look after us and as they grow older we look after them. That's the deal.

My mum actually gave up work to look after my child, which is so touching.

It's not hard to draw from within yourself to play someone protective of her daughter. I have animals and I'm a daughter, sister, wife, aunt and friend, and I can be fiercely protective.

You know that family is going to be there for you no matter what. My dad gave me a freakin' kidney! But it's also the families that you create outside of your family.

I love my family, I'll do anything for them.

You do stand alone sometimes. But my mother stood by me through all this.

In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.

My whole life has been nothing but trying to find a way to take care of my mom and take care of my family as quickly as possible.

As I'm getting older, I'm really learning unconditional love and loyalty are extremely important.

My family are my friends.

Just to have that sense of family, it gives you something that you know you need to take care of for the rest of your life. People gave it to him, and he passed it on to us.

We have a very disabled person in our family who is cared for by someone who lives a life most other people would find impossible, and her faith is making it a joy for her. And you can't argue with that. I mean, you can, but it's fruitless.