Nevil Shute Quotes

The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me.

Nevil Shute

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• My family background was deeply Christian.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • Family
  • Christian

• The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Family
  • High
  • Financial

• I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Family
  • Money
  • Done

• When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Family
  • Said
  • Laugh

• For the naysayers that claimed 'American Family' revealed us to be vacant, unloving, uncaring morons of the materialistic '70s, this image will be proven wrong when Mom and Dad remarry... Make no mistake. This is not to emphasize the sadness of my demise but rather emphasize the love of my family and friends.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Family
  • Love
  • Friends

• My family is a kaleidoscope... My family is like that. We're all different colors, like a prism. When we have light shine and stuff, we're beautiful. When it's dark, nothing shines, and it's a rock.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Different
  • Family
  • Beautiful

• We travel a lot from Australia and deliberately route ourselves through the U.A.E. because my whole family loves the place.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
  • Family
  • Travel
  • Australia

• The average Jordanian has much in common with the average American in terms of the values that we share, the fact that we all value the family unit, our work ethic.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Work
  • Family
  • American

• To be aware of others' accomplishments and the indebtedness we have to so many people is to appreciate and begin to respect all members of the human family.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • Family
  • Respect

• In the Middle Ages, I think the French kings murdered slightly fewer of their family members than the English kings, though I haven't actually counted the heads.

  

  Karen Maitland
  • Family
  • Think
  • English

• That's your dream, to get paid and take care of your family. But you still want to win, too.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Family
  • Dream
  • Win

• I think I realized early on that my family wasn't like other families.

  

  Victoria Gotti
  • Family
  • Think
  • Early

• Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • People
  • Important
  • Family

• I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Family
  • Want
  • Down

• 'Outlander' is filmed mostly around Glasgow and the central belt of Scotland, so it's lovely for me because I get to go up and spend time in the place that I lived for three years. I've got a bunch of friends in the cast because a lot of them studied at the same college as I did, and I get to see my family, most of whom now live in Scotland.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Up
  • Time
  • Live

• I'm close with all my family. It's just a normal, healthy, all-American divorced family.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Family
  • American
  • Healthy

• My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Amazing

• It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Family
  • Boy
  • Pride

• Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Family
  • Dad
  • Mom

• My family was Jehovah's Witnesses, which is a really tough religion. It kind of deterred me from religion for a long time. They still practice, but I don't. But I always remained spiritual, and had a belief that there is a God. I'm trying to find my way, you know?

  

  Ja Rule
  • Time
  • God
  • Long

• Wasn’t that their natural right, to know the truth so as to be able to let the truth lead them to do good or evil, as they chose?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Evil

• My cousins and I used to play Beatle wives. We all wanted to be married to Paul, but John was O.K. too. None of us wanted Ringo. Or even worse, George.

  

  Ann Hood

• The American people know that we cannot spend our way to prosperity.

  

  Geoff Davis
  • People
  • American

• The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me.

  

  Nevil Shute
  • Family
  • Married
  • Pilot