Esther Rantzen Quotes

I want to spend more time with my family, but I'm not sure they want to spend more time with me.

Esther Rantzen

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• My family was musical on both sides. My father’s family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to be Shirley Temple’s double — she was the diva of the family. At 8, I learned how to play guitar. I used to play songs from the ‘20s, ‘30s and ‘40s in the kitchen for my grandmother.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Family
  • She
  • Mother

• I wanted to be a jockey. I'm serious. First time I got on a horse, I loved it. That's what I wanted to be, but my dad asked me to start performing with my family.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Time
  • Family
  • Dad

• I'm thinking of a legacy that I can be proud of and wealth that my grandchildren can use to go to college. So world domination - in terms of providing for my family - is absolutely my goal.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Family

• I've got a great life. I'm in love, I have a happy, wonderful, beautiful time with my marriage, and I have a beautiful home. I want to spend time here working and creating.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• Looking and not finding is certainly one of the most frustrating ways to spend time.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Time
  • Loss
  • Frustrating

• I want to keep going as I have, to travel, read, perform, write, and enjoy my family. I've promised myself only this: no more Laundromats, no more two-shows-a-night, and no more deadlines. I'll work at my own pace.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Family

• Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone's grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Family

• My family are amazing. I had like, the perfect upbringing. It sucks for people like Lindsey [Lohan], but it's not her fault she's so off the rails.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Family
  • She

• I'm happy that I have my family, and I'm happy that I had Virginia, where I grew up, to retreat to any time I felt overwhelmed. Whenever there were times when I felt like the rug was being pulled out from under me and I was floating in this crazy space, I would stop and go back to that neighborhood and realize nothing's changed, really.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Happy
  • Neighborhood
  • My Family

• Fans aren't just fans... they're part of my family.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Fans
  • My Family

• I don't want to let any of my family down.

  

  Dinah Jane Fifth Harmony
  • My Family
  • Don't Want

• We care if people like what we did. If you're just making records for yourself, why put them out and do all these interviews and do touring? I'm a huge music fan, and this is what I do with my artistic time. It's all I really do, except hang out with my family. I value human relationships, and it's a way for me to interact with the world and feel like I'm part of something.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Music
  • Records
  • Interviews

• Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

  

  Cary Grant
  • My Family
  • Runs
  • Gallops

• My family is my number one priority.

  

  Georgina Chapman
  • Priority
  • Number
  • My Family

• My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • God
  • Jews
  • My Family

• I need to work to support my family.

  

  Tori Spelling
  • Work
  • Support
  • My Family

• That's where the challenge has been. Balancing football and life. Trying not to replay every play in my head while I'm with my family. Sometimes, I've done it well. Other times, I haven't.

  

  Chad Pennington
  • Football
  • Challenge
  • My Family

• Going to Barca was a decision I took with my family. They helped me a lot. It's been a dream come true. I'm really happy.

  

  Neymar
  • Happy
  • Dream
  • Decision

• Learning ballroom dancing is great for your brain. But it only works for three to six months. After that, you've got all the benefit you can get, and so you have to move on to yoga, and then Tai Chi, and then bridge, always keeping on the steep part of the learning curve.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • Great
  • Learning
  • Brain

• One cannot always know what children are thinking. Children are hard to understand, especially when careful training has accustomed them to obedience, and experience has made them cautious in their conversation with their teachers. Will you not draw from this the fine maxim that one should not scold children too much, but should make them trustful, so that they will not conceal their stupidities from us?

  

  Catherine the Great
  • Children
  • Make
  • Trustful

• A great teacher is not simply one who imparts knowledge to his students, but one who awakens their interest in it and makes them eager to pursue it for themselves. He is a spark plug, not a fuel pipe. The reason colleges exist is to bring students into contact with contagious personalities, for otherwise they might as well be correspondance schools.

  

  Edmund Ware Sinnott
  • Knowledge
  • Teacher
  • Students

• The perfection of mathematical beauty is such...that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent.

  

  D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
  • Beautiful
  • Perfection
  • Excellent

• I want to spend more time with my family, but I'm not sure they want to spend more time with me.

  

  Esther Rantzen
  • My Family
  • Spend Time