“I went from a naive, regular girl in high school to trying to realize my dream. When my family moved from the East Coast to California, I thought in my little brain, "Wow, I'm going to Hollywood. I could actually make this happen." It was easier for me to think it's possible living in a place like Los Angeles than trying to do it in suburban Maryland.” ThinkingTryingLittlesDreamHappensSchoolGirlRealizingBrainEasierHigh SchoolMy FamilyHollywoodMovedEastCaliforniaLos AngelesWowCoastNaiveEast CoastMaryland Author:Joan Jett
“My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig, but they can't get very far, and it's baffling. In Dublin, it seems that so many public records were wiped out; it's proven to be very difficult, so I know very little.” KnowsTryingLittlesSeemsParentDifficultSidesRecordsTreeMy FamilyProvenDublin Author:Steven Morrissey
“I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country.” LittlesCountryBreakMy FamilyDelightObligationLittle Time Author:Carre Otis
“When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears.” KnowsLittlesAsksBoysTearsMy FamilyIndianTrailsFamily HistoryOklahomaBloodline Author:Brad Pitt
“Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more.” LittlesSchoolParentChildhoodMy FamilyGuitarCampsDragHobbiesPlaying Guitar Author:Bonnie Raitt
“I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again.” LooksLittlesDoneUniverseSpaceMy FamilyPriorities Author:Cat Stevens
“My family suffered. My hair turned up in every corner, every drawer, every meal. Even in the rice puddings Tessie made, covering each little bowl with wax paper before putting it away in the fridge--even into these prophylactically secure desserts my hair found its way! Jet black hairs wound themselves around bars of soap. They lay pressed like flower stems between the pages of books. They turned up in eyeglass cases, birthday cards, once--I swear--inside an egg Tessie had just cracked. The next-door neighbor's cat coughed up a hairball one day and the hair was not the cat's.” WayLittlesMadeBookNextFoundBlackCasesDoorsFlowerHairOne DayPaperPagesCatMy FamilyLaysCornersNeighborWoundsBarsCardsSecureMealsEggsSwearBowlsStemSoapRiceCoveringJetDessertCrackedDrawersPuddingFridgesEyeglassesBlack HairNext Door NeighborsBirthday CardHairballsRice Pudding Book:Middlesex Source: Middlesex
“This, milord, is my family's axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade. And sometimes it has required a new handle, new designs on the metalwork, a little refreshing of the ornamentation . . . but is this not the nine hundred-year-old axe of my family? And because it has changed gently over time, it is still a pretty good axe, y'know. Pretty good.” KnowsYearsLittlesStillsSometimesCoursesDesignChangedNeededHundredMy FamilyNineHandleBladesRefreshingOrnamentation Author:Terry Pratchett
“The library was home away from home to my mom, and my family. We had spent every Sunday afternoon there since I was a little boy, wandering around the stacks, pulling out every book with a picture of a pirate ship, a knight, a soldier, or an astronaut. My mom used to say, "This is my church, Ethan. This is how we keep the Sabbath holy in our family.” LittlesBookHomeUsedChurchBoysMomHolyMy FamilyLibrarySoldierMy MomShipsWanderOur FamilySundayAfternoonPullingKnightsAstronautPirateLittle BoysSabbathAway From HomeWandering AroundSunday AfternoonsPirate ShipsHome Away From Home Author:Kami Garcia
“In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. I've thought a great deal about my life and my country. I think there is little that can be truly known. My family has been fortunate. Others were less so. As they are often quick to point out.” ThinkingWorldLittlesDoeHas BeensEndsCountryDreamRealityLyingWishWaitingDealsKnownMy FamilyCuresFortunateSentimentsRuthlessDreams And Reality Book:All the Pretty Horses Source: All the Pretty Horses
“She's afraid to tell me anything important, knowing I'll only turn around and write about it. In my mind, I'm like a friendly junkman, building things from the little pieces of scrap I find here and there, but my family's started to see things differently. Their personal lives are the so-called pieces of scrap I so casually pick up, and they're sick of it. More and more often their stories begin with the line "You have to swear you'll never repeat this." I always promise, but it's generally understood that my word means nothing.” WritingMindMeanLittlesImportantStoriesTurnsLinesKnowingPiecesBuildingPromisePicksUnderstoodMy FamilySickRepeatsFriendlySwearPersonal LifeHere And ThereScrapBuilding ThingsWords Mean Nothing Author:David Sedaris
“The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool.” KnowsFirstsLittlesEndsLeftBehindsKnow HowFourBalanceOne DayFirst TimeMy FamilyTablesLegsUnstableStoolsSturdy Author:Jodi Picoult
“If I had been a different sort of person, maybe less impressionable, less intense, less fearful, less utterly dependent upon the perceptions of others - maybe then I would not have bought the cultural party line that thinness is the be-all and end-all of goals. Maybe if my family had not been in utter chaos most of the time, maybe if my parents were a little better at dealing with their own lives maybe if I'd gotten help sooner, or if I'd gotten different help, maybe if I didn't so fiercely cherish my secret, or if I were not such a good liar, or were not quite so empty inside... maybe.” IfsLittlesPersonsDifferentEndsHelpingParentGoalLinesPartySecretPerceptionMy FamilyEmptyChaosIntenseDependentLiarsCherishFearfulImpressionableThinnessPerception Of OthersGood Liar Author:Marya Hornbacher
“The pain, so unexpected and undeserved, had for some reason cleared away the cobwebs. I realized I didn’t hate the cabinet door, I hated my life… My house, my family, my backyard, my power mower. Nothing would ever change; nothing new could ever be expected. It had to end, and it did. Now in the dark world where I dwell, ugly things, and surprising things, and sometimes little wondrous things, spill out in me constantly, and I can count on nothing.” WorldLittlesI CanEndsSometimesReasonPainHateHouseDarkDoorsMy FamilyUglyExpectedI RealizedHatedUnexpectedSurprisingCabinetsSpillsWondrousBackyardsNothing NewCobwebsUgly ThingsDark WorldSurprising ThingsMowers Author:Philip K. Dick
“The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.” TryingLittlesCharacterTogetherRoomsCommonFamilyFiguresStrangeBandDiseaseMy FamilyBoundsOur FamilyTiesHidingThreadBrothers And SistersFamily LifeSiblingDessertFamily LoveBorrowingReunionYour BrotherAbout FamilyMy SiblingsLittle BrotherGreat FamilyToothpasteLove Your FamilyShampooSiblings SistersCute SiblingFamily ReunionSiblings BrothersLovely FamilyLove And FamilySiblings Sisters And BrothersFamily TiesFamily TogetherFunny Family ReunionFunny Brother And SisterFunny Brother SisterCute Brother And SisterFunny SiblingCommon ThreadsCute Brother SisterLove Life And FamilyCovetingSibling DayBorrowing MoneySibling InspirationalLife And FamilyLife Is PainHiding PainFamily MemoriesLove Our Family Author:Erma Bombeck
“My faith plays a big part in my life. And when I was answering that question what I was really saying to the person was that I pray a lot. And I do. And my faith is a very, it's very personal. I pray for strength. I pray for wisdom. I pray for our troops in harm's way. I pray for my family. I pray for my little girls.” WayLittlesPersonsPlayBigsFaithGirlPrayingMy FamilyHarmTroopsI PrayOur Troops Author:George W. Bush