Family Gene Quotes

#1. A lot of boys in my poker circle are mathematicians who play on probability. I don't have that kind of brain, so I rely on instinct. But I recently found out that poker and cards in general go way back in my family gene pool.

Natalie Dormer

#2. Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand that you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking.

Frances Mayes

#3. Blame is especially useful in situations in which there is no apparent villain-those moments that prove, despite our advancement of learning, how susceptible we are to high winds and wet roads.

Roger Rosenblatt

#4. Family is in essence a small nation, and the nation a large family. In treating his own family with dignity, a ruler learns to govern his nation with dignity

Gene Luen Yang

#5. It is very hard to prevail where you are not, in the deepest and most intimate and forgiving of ways, loved. It is very hard to prevail in any case but without this love, it is close to impossible.

Joyce Carol Oates

#6. These marranos go wherever there is money to be made.

Voltaire

#7. If you think about brewing, it is biotechnology. And I would say that I was a technologist at heart. So whether I ... fermented beer or whether I fermented enzymes, the base technology was the same.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

#8. Luther says that vocations are a mask from God. That is, God hides Himself in the workplace, the family, the Church, and the seemingly secular society

Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#9. I do feel like I'm in this lucky position where I can write something and people will read it, and I feel like I should say something that's probably worth saying ... I feel like it's something worth saying, and one more person saying it is better.

David Liss

#10. Of course you do, child," said mother. "Families were made to cling together, and stand by each other in every circumstance of life - joy or sorrow. Of course you need your family.

Gene Stratton-Porter

#11. I like sci-fi that is not entirely impossible.

Blair Brown

#12. Cooper thanked his lucky stars that the sucker gene ran in the family.

Terri Osburn

#13. It's very professionally done, very clever songwriting. I like Backstreet Boys more than 'N Sync, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, it's all very well done stuff. Much better than the Partridge Family and New Kids On The Block. I took my kids to see Backstreet Boys live and they flipped out

Gene Simmons

#14. I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.

Gene Tierney

#15. My whole family is missing that sports gene. I hope I didn't screw that up by marrying a great golfer.

Penn Jillette

#16. I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human.

Shirley Knight

#17. Activities are a real blessing to a family. They provide a way to have fun together, relieve tensions, and develop relationships on new levels with one another.

Gene R. Cook

#18. A country without bordellos is like a house without bathrooms.

Marlene Dietrich

#19. Authority is granted to people who are perceived as authoring their own words, their own actions, their own lives, rather than playing a scripted role at great remove from their own hearts.

Parker J. Palmer

#20. People do want to know, there is curiosity, it is a matter of public interest. That is not sufficient reason to disclose information. It is not sufficient that there be curiosity and interest that you want to disclose information.

Tharman Shanmugaratnam

#21. Prince, sad to say, has passed on!!!He was a Giant. My deep condolences go out to his family, friends and fans.

Gene Simmons

#22. It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

Paul Auster

#23. My family are all storytellers, and I think I inherited a lot more of that gene than other people in my family. I guess I was fun to have around.

John C. Reilly

#24. Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. (as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994)

Gene Hackman

#25. It's very rare that you get a group of people who are all passionate and driven and all get along.

Kelly Blatz

#26. If the homemakers of this country don't get the idea into their heads pretty soon that they are not going to be able to hold their own with the rest of the world, with no children, or one child in the family, there's a sad day of reckoning coming.

Gene Stratton-Porter

#27. I'd like to make music for a long time, and all different types of music. Maybe I'll start my own label to get other artists off the ground.

Jamie Cullum

#28. I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.

Gary Cole