Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school.

Francis Ford Coppola

When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.

Glenn Beck

The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.

Gustave Flaubert

It was not easy with a newborn, asking your wife to give up the family home and your security.

Heston Blumenthal

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

Joseph Brodsky

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

Josh Billings

I have to say, creating memories is so important to me that I did a book about creating memories for your family.

Josie Bissett

The principal event of my childhood was that no adult in my family would tell me who my father was.

John Irving

Being on 'Good Times' was the first time I was around a group of people that wasn't my family.

Janet Jackson

For a couple of years at the end of the 1970s, Dustin Hoffman was a fixture in our family. My father was his lawyer and friend.

John Burnham Schwartz

I was trying to support a family with writing. I didn't have a private income. I had no other profession.

John Updike

I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's.

Kevin McCloud

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

Lloyd Alexander

I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.

Lev Grossman

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy

I grew up in southwestern Ontario in the heart of a Mennonite community. All my family are part of the Mennonite church.

Malcolm Gladwell

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

Nora Roberts

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

Ogden Nash

To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.

Patricia Reilly Giff

I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.

Patrick O'Brian

My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either.

P. L. Travers