Family Quotes
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When Edna O'Brien's first novel, 'The Country Girls,' was published in 1960, her family and neighbors in the small Irish village where she was born tossed copies into a bonfire expressly set for that horrifying purpose.
Alan Cheuse
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I became completely obsessed with the Royal family, or at least the psychology behind them.
Vanessa Kirby
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Do what you love. Do what is important to you and your family. I just want to encourage people to just go for it and do what makes sense to you.
Chip Gaines
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There are homophobic people in my family. They're deeply religious.
Nelsan Ellis
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I don't have the best family life. I'm not going to have a sob story and be like, my parents abandoned me, because they didn't. But they also are not that present. When I'm alone, I'm alone. I don't have anybody to call, and so I have to create meaning from myself.
Constance Wu
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I always looked up to great actors and great films. A lot of my family would be like, 'Come on, you should get into these plays that are going on.' I'm like, 'Nah, nah, music's my thing.' I just fell into it. I moved to Atlanta, got with an agency out there, started doing little voiceover commercials, and it started getting kind of fun.
Jacob Latimore
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In my family history, there are generations of women who were abandoned by men. It's one of the themes of my family.
Lynn Nottage
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I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way.
Corazon Aquino
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In my family I was never known as the fighter, like I became all of a sudden.
Jane Byrne
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I think we're really hungry for family in America, especially when I feel like people are really pulled apart from their families. So, we were interested in the idea of what the extreme version of that would be.
Zal Batmanglij
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When I was a boy in Desuq, Egypt, a city on the Rosetta branch of the Nile, about 50 miles east of Alexandria, my family lived steps away from the local landmark, a mosque named for a 13th-century Sufi sheik.
Ahmed Zewail
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It is essential that we understand people for who they are as individuals and not the public perception of them or their family and past.
Clement Freud