3 December 2020 Danny Boyle The extraordinary thing about India is that it’s such a family place. It’s full of families everywhere.
3 December 2020 Willa Cather Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
3 December 2020 Jim Bunning A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed, and strong families with a man and a woman – bonded together for life – always have been, and always will be, the key to such families.
3 December 2020 Susan Sarandon I feel my family’s needs are a priority. I’m not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.
3 December 2020 Shirley MacLaine If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.
3 December 2020 Dee Dee Myers The dirty little secret is that the pool man, who’s making $30,000 a year, is subsidizing the million-dollar mortgage for the family whose pool he cleans. No wonder people want to get rid of tax breaks for corporate jets.
3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
3 December 2020 Lawrence Welk We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.
3 December 2020 Vera Farmiga I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.
3 December 2020 Andre Rieu I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland Everybody has basically the same family, it’s just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.
3 December 2020 Francis Ford Coppola They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I’d be sure to have some dough to support my family.
3 December 2020 Marcelene Cox Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there’s always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
3 December 2020 Anne Tyler For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
3 December 2020 Brigitte Bardot I’m a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.
3 December 2020 Rupert Murdoch I’m considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family – father, mother, children – is fundamental to our civilisation.
3 December 2020 Leon Kass It’s very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Fishel Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.
3 December 2020 Annie Leibovitz The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother’s wall in her house.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
3 December 2020 Mitt Romney America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.
3 December 2020 David Bowie There’s a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I’m affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn’t want to leave. He likes it very much.
3 December 2020 Eddie Van Halen You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Safran Foer The purpose of the Seder to my mind is to inspire conversations with your family about the human drama and hopefully transmit values to the next generation. I’ve always felt like this could be better.
3 December 2020 Ziggy Marley I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They’re like you and me.
