Quotes About Close Family Members

#1. I have close family members as well as lots of close friends who are gay. Many of them strongly support gay marriage.

Tony Abbott

#2. When I was born, my dad and my mom gave me names, but in Africa, when your child is born, especially close family members can suggest names they want to add on. Maybe your grandmom and your grandpop have something to add to the name of the child.

Dikembe Mutombo

#3. People think I'm so confident. Close family members can see through that.

Katie Price

#4. Our favorite teams bring people together, keep family members close, bond people from different generations. Some of the happiest moments of my life involve something that happened with one of my teams. Some of the best relationships I ever had were with Boston athletes that I never even met.

Bill Simmons

#5. Dobie was so well written and so ahead of its time.

Dwayne Hickman

#6. George Bush is just as much in the dark as I am, and it scares me.

Adam Levine

#7. You remember your history?" He had finished five years of high school with respectable marks and a very good showing in trigonometry and geography but did not remember much history. In his final year, anyway, all you could think about was that you were going to the war. He said, "Not altogether.

Alice Munro

#8. As a child, I was fortunate enough to be close to family members who were - and still are - great storytellers. I was a gullible country boy from Rocky Mount, Virginia, and I believed every folktale they told me, no matter how fantastic.

Jesse L. Martin

#9. Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.

Robert Browning

#10. Farewell, sweet playfellow.

William Shakespeare

#11. There was a way in which my grandmother's true self was not these guests' business; no one's true self was the business of more than a very small number of family members or close friends.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#12. So many people, including stark conservatives, have family members and close friends who are gay.

Paul Singer

#13. There are members - very, very close and dear members - of my family - I'm talking immediate family - who simply don't speak to me anymore and haven't done so for years. My marriage fell apart.

Maajid Nawaz

#14. Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.

A. N. Wilson

#15. With our close friends, family members, and lovers, we hope to create a special world, one in which we can expect to be treated fairly, with care, tenderness, and compassion.

Sharon Salzberg

#16. If you're not comfortable with public speaking - and nobody starts out comfortable; you have to learn how to be comfortable - practice. I cannot overstate the importance of practicing. Get some close friends or family members to help evaluate you, or somebody at work that you trust.

Hillary Clinton

#17. Words can't describe... shouldn't be in a writer's vocabulary.

Mary M. Forbes

#18. Patience with family members and others who are close to us is vital for us to have happy homes.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#19. You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday's parties.

Cesare Pavese