Quotes with family-style

Quotes 161 till 180 of 564.

  • Andrew Vachss I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.
    Andrew Vachss
    American crime fiction author (1942 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I found out I was pregnant seven days after my wedding. I was on honeymoon with my family.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Lewis Grizzard I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.
    Lewis Grizzard
    American journalist (1946 - 1994)
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  • Alan Dundes I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Anne Stevenson I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower I have found out in later years that my family was very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it. [On his childhood]
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Patrick Henry I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
    Patrick Henry
    American attorney, planter, and orator (1736 - 1799)
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  • Antonio Tabucchi I live quietly at home among my family and friends.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Adam Jones I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
    Adam Jones
    American musician (1965 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Junot Diaz I seem to have to make my characters family before I can access their hearts in any way that matters.
    Junot Diaz
    Dominican-American writer (1968 - )
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  • Gertrude Stein I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Aaliyah I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
    Aaliyah
    American singer, actress and model (1979 - 2001)
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  • Hippocrates I swear... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
    Hippocrates
    Greek physician (460 - 377)
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  • Atom Egoyan I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Alexander McQueen I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern - wearing head-to-toe designer has become a bit passe. It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.
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  • William S. Burroughs I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Aaron Spelling I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer
    Aaron Spelling
    American film and television (1923 - 2006)
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  • Al Sharpton I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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