Family Quotes
“I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.”
“If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.”
-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.”
-- Michael J. Fox
“As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.”
-- Mario Batali
“My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school. So I was always moving, I'm still always moving.”
-- Gus Van Sant
“The only people that you really have, that I learned, are your family, because they love you no matter what.”
-- Miley Cyrus
“I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.”
-- David Hockney