Top 23 Quotes About Family Circus
#1. A company commander,' said Dicky Umfraville, when we met later that year, 'needs the qualifications of a ringmaster in a first-class circus, and a nanny in a large family.
Anthony Powell
#2. I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can't be given.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#4. [...] we can find no true or existent fact, no true assertion, without there being a sufficient reason why it is thus and not otherwise, although most of the time these reasons cannot be known to us.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
#5. Oh, I used to lie all the time as a kid. I didn't think of it as lying, though. I thought of it as playing make-believe. I told Kitty she was adopted and her real family was in a traveling circus. It's why she took up gymnastics.
Jenny Han
#6. On a film, you start to get closer and closer with the people you're working with, and it becomes like this circus act or this travelling family.
Johnny Depp
#7. The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light.
John Green
#8. I like to make fun of Jeffy [of Family Circus] the most, because I know the grown-up Jeff Keane personally and enjoy ridiculing him.
Stephan Pastis
#9. I always ask myself why old heavyweights come back, but I plan to stay out of the ring.
Lennox Lewis
#10. When someone makes a Family Circus reference and everyone on the room laughs, I'm in the wrong room.
Josh Hanagarne
#11. I'd love to be popular in Barcelona. That sounds like a fun job.
Bobby Heenan
#12. In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect stumps of trees, with their roots attached, buried in strata at different heights, one over the other.
Charles Lyell
#13. I wanted to keep working because work was essentially fantastic - you got to be around people, you got to be in a family, and that family changed from job to job. It was like being in the circus.
Ben Mendelsohn
#15. In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
Bil Keane
#16. But if Smith was right, and gold and silver became money through the natural workings of the market completely independently of governments, then wouldn't the obvious thing be to just grab control of the gold and silver mines?
David Graeber
#17. I think the movie business and film crews are a little bit like the circus, in that we travel around like a pack and we're a big family for a finite period of time. We roll into someplace, cause a bunch of damage, and then roll out.
Francis Lawrence
#18. Music is just a huge part of my life. It affects moods. I've always found it insane how you can hear one song, and it takes you back to a specific, specific moment in your life, and you remember it vividly like it was yesterday.
Mike Vogel
#19. I created an icicle sculpture in the snow. White on white.
Mary E. Pearson
#20. When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn't afford them. Instead, we stayed in our small rural West Texas town, and my parents took us to cemeteries.
Jenny Lawson
#21. Dragon fruit is very subtle, very delicate. So you want to be careful not to kill it with things that have very strong flavor.
Jose Andres
#22. With 'Hollow Circus,' I used a family story that haunted me as a kid, one of those anecdotes about a family member that would rarely be spoken of in front of the children.
Peter Milligan
#23. My family traveled with a whole community to European festivals. My mum did gymnastics, freak show performances, and swung fire in the circus, so I followed her footsteps.
Neon Hitch
