— Orlando Bloom"Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death."
Family Quotes
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Authors on Family
— Orlando Bloom"Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death."
— Shaun White"We all started snowboarding in the beginning as a family just to be closer together, go on trips. It was our soccer, but instead of Dad yelling at me from the sideline he is there riding with me and hitting the jumps even before I am hitting them."
— Shaun White"I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then, all of a sudden, my brother started snow boarding. Older brother thing, I had to do what he was doing. So I started snow boarding."
— Shaun White"My friends ask me why I still live with my family, but I feel comfortable there. We've all been through so much together."
— Shaun White"We all started snowboarding in the beginning as a family just to be closer together, go on trips. It was our soccer, but instead of Dad yelling at me from the sideline he is there riding with me and hitting the jumps even before I am hitting them."
— Laura Linney"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."
— Peter Singer"We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment."
— Mehmet Oz"In Turkey, you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient."
— Louis C. K."When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore."
— Louis C. K."America's a family. We all yell at each other. It all works out."
— Maurice Sendak"I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child."
— Maurice Sendak"I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child."
— Maurice Sendak"My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony."
— Maurice Sendak"I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard."
— Anne Lamott"When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves."
— Sandra Day O'Connor"The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading."
— Sandra Day O'Connor"Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person."
— Sandra Day O'Connor"Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person."
— Bear Grylls"I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters."