Quotes About Family Storytelling

#1. It is less distracting in the silence," she said. "Sustained silence allows one truly to listen to what is deep inside. We call it waiting in expectation.

Tracy Chevalier

#2. The quality of TV drama nowadays is getting better and better. They've had to invent a new term for it: 'high-end television.'

Robert Carlyle

#3. Just make sure the day doesn't pass without sayin' what's in your heart. Sometimes you pass up those chances and they're gone forever.

Dan Groat

#4. Storytelling is the greatest activity of any culture. Storytelling is how you build a family, how you pass along identity.

Randall Wallace

#5. If I can fix every detail of this time in my mind, I can keep this moment always.

Betty Smith

#6. Food was always a conduit in our family for storytelling, and it was a way for us to keep in touch and remember things. We're people that use food to keep each other together and to always cheer us up and make all of our days better.

Rachael Ray

#7. I don't know any family that doesn't have a story somewhere. Besides, it you didn't have those things in life, you'd be so bland.

Orlando Bloom

#8. That man makes me feel like I have my bonnet on backwards.

Nancy E. Turner

#9. Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause.

Matthew Simpson

#10. I'd rather wear bare skin than raw silk any day.

Vicki Hendricks

#11. Passover takes place in the home rather than the synagogue and centers around an epic meal - the seder - so you remember Passover as storytelling, you remember it in food, and you remember it in the family.

Simon Schama

#12. Style comes from knowing who you are and who you want to be in the world; it does not come from wanting to be somebody else, or wanting to be thinner, shorter, taller, prettier.

Nina Garcia

#13. And I don't mean that the storytelling that's out there shouldn't be happening. I just feel like that there's this huge imbalance with it all. Where are the shows that allow the entire family to sit down and enjoy something together?

Michael Landon Jr.

#14. Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable - the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#15. What was it with evildoers trying to hire my boyfriend as a mercenary?

Becca Fitzpatrick

#16. I am a storyteller, and I grew up with a father who told big-fish stories, so storytelling is very much a part of me. It was a part of my family.

Susan Stroman

#17. 'How to Train Your Dragon,' the first one, was a film I'd seen prior to being approached for the sequel. I don't often watch family animated movies, but it's one that I loved and thought was really well done: beautifully crafted storytelling.

Kit Harington

#18. Ours was a storytelling family even in pleasing times, and in those days my parents looked on words as our sustenance, rich in their flavor and wholesome for the soul.

Natalie Kusz

#19. Nothing's the same for anyone. That's why life's this Hell, if you do a thing you're damned, and if you don't you're damned . . . .

E. M. Forster

#20. Passed down from generation to generation, storytelling was an art in my family.

David Mixner