Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

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

John Irving

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

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.

Stanislav Grof

I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.

Scott McClellan

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.

Don DeLillo

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

David Hume

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

Edwin Way Teale

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frank Norris

Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.

George William Russell

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!

H. P. Lovecraft