Whole Family Quotes - Page 2

• Wonderful to see with the whole family. It's like travelling from dynasty to dynasty, from one Chinese region to another.

  Bernard Drainville

  Chinese, Dynasty, Wonderful

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• English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent.

  Guy Pearce

  Listening, Problem, Form

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• I have much more power and protection than Salman Rushdie, because I'm an American citizen, but yes, I live in terrible fear for my life and for the lives of my children. My whole family has been threatened, my adoptive parents had to sell their house and move out of Washington, D.C. because of death threats caused by my work and activism.

  Kola Boof

  Children, Moving, Parent

  "Kola Boof: Words with the Author of the Best Black Book of 2006". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• I was raised on piano and saxophone and jazz music for ten or twelve years. Before I even picked up a bass. My whole family has always pushed the arts, you know? My brother is a doctor of music and my cousin is an opera singer over in Austria. Arts were always a big thing in our family.

  Matt Snell

  Art, Cousin, Brother

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• When you grow up in Chicago, your whole family is counting on you to go to college and do something distinguished. The last thing you're thinking is that you're going to make a career in show business.

  Harold Ramis

  Growing Up, College, Thinking

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the 60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family.

  Lisa Bonet

  Mother, Men, Brave

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused, but is strictly individual.

  Otto Weininger

  Genius, May, Common

  Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.103, Рипол Классик

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• My whole family likes to play basketball. George II plays for his high school team and George III and George IV and George V are going to be good players. One day we're going to have a team and call it Georgetown.

  George Foreman

  Basketball, Team, School

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• When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party line in case the children repeated it and endangered the whole family.

  Jung Chang

  Children, Party, Parent

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• Nothing in life is fun for the whole family. There are no massage parlors with ice cream and free jewelry.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Ice Cream, Massage

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• I love pizza so much, I would marry pizza, but it would just be an elaborate ploy to eat her whole family at the reception.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Reception, Ploy, Pizza

  Mike Birbiglia (2012). “Sleepwalk with Me: And Other Painfully True Stories”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• One time my whole family played hide and seek. They found my mother in Pittsburgh!

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Mother, Pittsburgh, Found

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• They would wake me up when I was sleeping, and say sing a song for our friends. I had a sweet voice, I had a nice little tenor voice. God knows what I sang, but my whole family would admire me.

  Dominic Chianese

  Song, Sweet, Nice

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• The proper education of a man decides his welfare, but the interests of a whole family are secured by the correct education of a woman.

  George Q. Cannon

  Men, Welfare, Interest

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• Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.

  Arthur Ashe

  Dad, Names, Would Be

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• Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.

  Michael M. Honda

  Equality, Sisterhood, Equal Pay

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• It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.

  Barbara Mandrell

  Injury, Head Injuries, Difficult

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• I can only say, think of me what you will, I have worked for thirty years in the Party, and my whole family has devoted everything to the affairs of the Party, the affairs of socialism.

  Alexander Dubcek

  Party, Thinking, Years

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• Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families.

  Junot Diaz

  Betrayal, Love Is, Historical

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• In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family.

  John Lasseter

  Entertainment, Economic, Inexpensive

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• You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.

  Bruno Mars

  Brother, Play, Musician

  "Bruno Mars expands sonic world with sophomore album: Q&A". The Associated Press Interview, www.oregonlive.com. December 11, 2012.

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• Freud was the son of a Jewish merchant who had to move his whole family to Vienna because he couldn't get work. He, as a boy, had to watch his father be mocked and abused on the street for being Jewish... You develop a thick skin and you develop a certain kind of wit to defend yourself.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Father, Moving, Son

  Interview with Radheyan Simonpillai, www.askmen.com.

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• I love film. After a yummy meal for the whole family and some truly great friends, we often go out to see something beautiful and unique.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Beautiful, Unique, Yummy

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• It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

  Gertrude Stein

  Family, Forget The Past, Acquaintance

  Gertrude Stein, Ulla E. Dydo (1993). “A Stein Reader”, p.590, Northwestern University Press

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• The whole family is tight. We all really love each other.

  Kieran Culkin

  Family Love, Love Each Other, Whole

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