"I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.“

-Adriana Lima

posted in family

Adriana Lima quote about family: "I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I hav..."

Other Quotes

Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection

"I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone."

-Adriana Lima

"I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile."

-Adriana Lima

smileView Quote

"I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous."

-Adriana Lima

moviesView Quote

"I like jealous men. I love jealousy. I do."

-Adriana Lima

jealousyView Quote

"Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong."

-Adriana Lima

"You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous."

-Adriana Lima

famousView Quote

Same Category

More quotes in this category

"While Free Choice Vouchers didn't fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every American would be empowered to hire and fire their insurance company, they were a foothold for choice and competition and a safety valve for Americans whose employers are already forcing them to bear more and more of their family's health insurance costs."

-Ron Wyden

familyView Quote

"The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible."

-Christopher Monckton

familyView Quote

"More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue."

-Joyce Maynard

familyView Quote

"But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people."

-Andrea Martin

familyView Quote

"I've always known I wanted a family."

-Charlize Theron

familyView Quote

"And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure."

-Bob Geldof

familyView Quote