Edmund de Waal Quotes
This is the strange undoing of a collection, of a house and of a family. It is the moment of fissure when grand things are taken and when family objects, known and handled and loved, become stuff.
Edmund de Waal
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There's such a strong community element in country - it's like a family. So I don't want to do anything that can come off, even if I'm not intentionally doing it, as giving the perception that I'm trying to abandon that family.
Sam Hunt
My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.
Laura Wasser
The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
Kamisese Mara
It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you're working. But then when you break, the other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.
Natalie Portman
I'm a dad and a husband, and so the things that I love to do are all geared around my family.
Pablo Schreiber
I'm based here in L.A., but I think in the future I might consider settling down in Malaysia when I start a family.
Yuna
The fact of leaving one's country, one's family, one's roots, can be painful. My father had already found his place, but for us, for my mother, it was very difficult to get our bearings.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.
Randy Quaid
I carry the voices of all my family within me, and they were with me there in the jungle.
Ingrid Betancourt
It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.
Daniel Day-Lewis
I was the rebel in our family and a child of the eighties. That meant going to the mall.
Naomi Klein
My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.
Laura Linney
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
Queen Elizabeth II
For rich children, it'd be very easy and convenient never to take any steps to build an identity outside of your association with your family's wealth.
Jamie Johnson
The campaign to put a woman on the $20 bill has narrowed the choices down to four finalists. The four finalists are Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Flo from the Progressive Insurance ads.
Conan O'Brien
I get butterflies in my stomach before I perform. I love them! They let me know I'm ready to perform, that I'm ready to rock out on stage.
Manika
This is the strange undoing of a collection, of a house and of a family. It is the moment of fissure when grand things are taken and when family objects, known and handled and loved, become stuff.
Edmund de Waal
