Family Quotes

Given a choice between being trapped on a desert island with a group of writers or a family of howler monkeys, I think I'd pick the monkeys. At least I could eat them.

Anthony Bourdain
- Family
- Desert
I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life. I've spent a life loving women, and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.

Darren Aronofsky
- Life
- Up
- Women

My friends are my family.

Ian Mckellen
- Family
- Friends
The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle was in the Marine Corps. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII. There weren't any career soldiers in my family, but when I was young it seemed like a way of arriving at adulthood.

Kevin Powers
- Father
- Career
- Military
Paris is where my family are, but it's not really home now because I have dear friends in London and dear friends in New York.

Clemence Poesy
- Home
- Friends
- Paris
You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.

Daniel Barenboim
- Music
- Family
- Understand
If you were there behind every family's closed doors, everyone's a little wacko. Chances are that your family is no weirder than the next family or than the other girl at school's family. Everyone can be quirky at times, and I embrace that, personally.

Meaghan Jette Martin
- Family
- School
- Girl
The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music.

Dennis Wilson
- Music
- Kids
- Together