3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
3 December 2020 Dave Eggers It’s not that our family has no taste, it’s just that our family’s taste is inconsistent.
3 December 2020 Mark Ruffalo But in my heart of hearts, this is the kind of thing… this is what everyone is struggling with in their lives – relationships and family. To me, it’s always an interesting area to mine. I’m drawn to it.
3 December 2020 Christian Bale I’m an actor I’m not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.
3 December 2020 John Cleese I can’t tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it’s like going to somebody else’s Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you’re there and you’re not quite sure what you’re supposed to be doing.
3 December 2020 Scott Ritter One, if you attack my integrity, I will defend myself. If you attack my patriotism, I will defend myself. If you come after my family, I will counter-attack viciously, I will destroy you.
3 December 2020 Mos Def I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn’t be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.
3 December 2020 Brett Favre The town, the team, it’s a family. That has helped. For some people who have had to deal with some of the problems I have had to deal with don’t have football as an out.
3 December 2020 Paula Deen Of course, I will continue to share my favorite Southern recipes, just like my mama, grandmother and family shared with me over the years. And now, I’ll be adding a little bit of a lighter touch to some of these wonderful dishes.
3 December 2020 Shakira I’m lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I’ll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself.
3 December 2020 Anna Quindlen In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.
3 December 2020 Caroline Kennedy In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.
3 December 2020 Chaz Bono A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again that’s not the case in my family.
3 December 2020 Jim Valvano People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who’s right here too.
3 December 2020 Justin Bieber I want to be a young dad. By 25 or 26 I want to see myself, like, married or start looking for a family.
3 December 2020 Eric Clapton I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone’s got their own definition.
3 December 2020 Emeril Lagasse You go to a restaurant in the States and kids have these game boards at the table. You don’t see that in Italy or Spain. It’s not because they can’t afford to buy them, it’s because that’s not what eating together as a family is about.
3 December 2020 Ron Fournier AP promoted me to the White House beat because I knew Clinton, his family, friends, and staff better than anybody in the national press corps. Those contacts helped me break a few stories and get my career in Washington jump-started.
3 December 2020 Michael Pitt It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you’re happy when you wake up.
3 December 2020 Janet Jackson I think it’s been a little difficult at times for the audience, because they’ve told me they see me as a family member. So to see your little sister sing about sex… I think they are pretty used to it now.
3 December 2020 George Saunders When I was a kid, I took ‘The Brady Bunch’ and ‘The Partridge Family’ very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.
3 December 2020 Amy Grant Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you’re burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. This is one of those times.
3 December 2020 Giada De Laurentiis I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything. Everything in moderation. I know that’s really hard for people to understand, but I grew up in an Italian family where we didn’t overdo anything. We ate pasta, yes, but not a lot of it.
3 December 2020 A. N. Wilson The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don’t even have breakfast together.
3 December 2020 Mary J. Blige I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children.
3 December 2020 Lady Gaga I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Sacks Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
