Families Worlds Quotes

#1. I was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it's funny, because most of my best friends come from very large families. So it always felt as if I had lots of siblings, though in the end I had to leave them and go home. I kind of got the best of both worlds as a kid.

Sophia Bush

#2. Elimae was a magician with a key in her mouth, a foreign language, a matryoshka doll: uncomplicated on the surface, but with a dozen secret selves hidden inside. She thought I didn't notice her, but she's all I did notice.

Kirsty Logan

#3. A family is a little world within doors; the miniature resemblance of the great worls without

Henry James

#4. Each succeeding generation of Gods follow the example of the preceding ones: each generation have their wives, who raise up from the fruit of their loins immortal spirits: when their families become numerous, they organize new worlds for them. [T]hey place their families upon the same.

Orson Pratt

#5. We've never played at this place before. This place is big, and I'm kinda nervous, so we're going to make it feel small by pretending we're in a ... bedroom. We'll hang off the edge of the bed, take off our shoes and get naked!

Dave Matthews

#6. I'm Charles Baker Harris...I can read

Harper Lee

#7. I guess not being able to hear just made me adventurous and daring. And in most cases, that didn't make my parents very happy with me.

Marlee Matlin

#8. In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time.

Joni Mitchell

#9. See others as yourself. See families as your family. See towns as your town. See countries as your country. See worlds as your world.

Laozi

#10. The Romantics didn't need [the bible] because they found their own fire; but almost every other quasi-revolt has gone back to it, because when the heart revolts, it wants outrageous things that cannot possibly be factual. Robes and incense and larger-than-life and miracles and heroes.

Jeanette Winterson

#11. Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. I love you," he says quietly. I want to take his words, the truth of them I can see on his face, and cup them in my hands like a glowing coal from the fire. Keep them with me warm and bright, a talisman.

Amy Engel

#13. impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help.

Markus Zusak

#14. Can that make any sense - a Belgian artist living in Mexico and working in Afghanistan?

Francis Alys

#15. The offspring of nationalist thinking too often expresses itself in exclusionary and passively-violent legal policies, and then sadly, through militarism, which becomes manifest on the endless blood-soaked borders and battlefields of humanity's great failure as a humane species.

Bryant McGill

#16. To put meaning in one's life may end in madness,
But life without meaning is the torture
Of restlessness and vague desire
It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

Edgar Lee Masters

#17. No government can exist without taxation. The money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying so as not to oppress.

Frederick The Great

#18. You're lying, Beverly. I think you want to hear all the dirty details of my indiscretions. Shall I describe the positions that were used, the sounds she made, the size of my cock - ?" "Stop!

Pam Godwin

#19. Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.

George Friedman

#20. The worlds of folklore and religion were so mingled in early twentieth venture German culture that even families who didn't go to church were often deeply Christian.

Eric Metaxas