Quotes of: Family-ties Keyword

Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.

Valerie Simpson

I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.

Andrea Arnold

I think everybody had difficulties with that dynamic, turning the family into a band and being constantly together. So everybody, as individuals. had things to sort out.

Andrea Corr

My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.

Anita Diament

In Afghan culture, you don't date - you marry. Even talking to boys before marriage brings great shame to your family.

Azita Ghanizada

I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition.

Adam Hicks

I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children.

Anne Hathaway

It's great to have a place of my own, but I still see my family often, as we are very close.

Anthony Howell

My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.

Alan Lightman

No matter how American I become, I'm considered part of the Chinese community by my own family.

Anchee Min

But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people.

Andrea Martin

Roy Acuff's from Maynardville, and that's where a lot of my family's from. So he's, I've been told, a distant cousin, as well.

Ashley Monroe

Some twins feel like they need to compare themselves to each other, but we're not that way. That's because of my parents, though, and having six kids in the family.

Ashley Olsen

We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.

Alan Shepard

You take care of you and your family first. Then you go to your neighborhood, and then you spread it on out within the community.

Al Smith

I'm a family man, I have kids, and I go to the movies. And I'm just going to make the kind of movie I want to see.

Andrew Stanton

Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends.

Amber Tamblyn

The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.

Adam Weishaupt

My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

Alice Walker

I want to be the kind of actress where, if I'm in the press, I'm in for the right reasons - for my work. To be in the press about family drama is kind of embarrassing.

Ariel Winter