Best my-family & towns Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

Young Parent Goes On My Family Towns West Texas Circus Cemetery Disneyland West Texas

Author:Jenny Lawson

“Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.”

Left Poor My Family Towns Russia Factories Family And Friends

Author:Natalia Vodianova

“my parents ... had decided early on that all of the problems in my family had somehow to do with me. All roads led to Roseyville, a messy, chaotic town where, as parents, they were required to visit, but could never get out of quick enough or find a decent parking place.”

Enough Problem Parent My Family Decided Towns Blame Decent Messy Chaotic Parking

Author:Roseanne Barr

“I was born in Glasgow. But my family is pretty much from a little town called Paisley, famous for its cotton mills and paisley pattern.”

Littles Born My Family Towns Patterns Cotton Mills Little Towns Glasgow Paisley

Author:Gerard Butler

“I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.”

Way Felt Born Grew Grew Up My Family Towns South Spots Ran Rooted Grandfather My Grandfather Georgia Mayors Cotton Mills

Author:Frances Mayes

“I don't want to do anything to embarrass my family or my church because the town that I come from is so small. There are certain things that I just can't be part of because of my foundation.”

Want Certain Church My Family Towns Foundation

Author:Michelle Williams

“I was born in Suzhou, a city not very far from Shanghai. It's a very interesting town - there is a long artist's tradition there, especially during the Ming and Ching dynasties, which produced many, many scholars and painters and so forth. That's where my family lived for 600, 700 years.”

Years Long Artist Born Interesting Cities Tradition My Family Towns Painter Scholar Very Interesting Dynasty Shanghai

Author:I. M. Pei

“As a shy, introverted, scholarly child (long ago) I don't know what I would have done without libraries! My family moved often. I was always the new kid in town. The library always offered me my first and most important friendship: the place where I felt right at home. I still feel that way today, about libraries.”

Knows Way Feels Firsts Children Long Stills Important Done Home Kids Today Felt My Family Towns Moved Library Shy Long Ago Introverted Scholarly

Author:Lois Lowry

“'One Tree Hill' really had an impact on my life. It was the first time I left my house and my family in New York and went to a small town in North Carolina. It was the most incredible experience for me.”

Firsts House Left Tree New York First Time My Family Towns Impact Incredibles Hills Small Town Carolina North Carolina Tree Hill

Author:Daniella Alonso

“I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were pretty literate.”

Littles Reader My Family Towns Considering Avid Little Towns

Author:John Malkovich

“But where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I knew best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No, my home. No, my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself.”

World Mind Country Home My Own Streets My Family Towns

Book:Souls on Fire

Source: Souls on Fire

“I'm part German and part Irish. In fact, there's even a town in Germany that was named after my family, Limbach or so forth. And I don't know. I might even have some Indian blood in there.”

Knows Facts Might Blood My Family Towns Indian Germany

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I had a big family - two older sisters and a younger brother. My family was like moving around a lot so I lived in a lot of small towns. My father was very restless.”

Two Bigs Moving Father Brother My Family Towns Small Town Restless Big Families Older Sister Younger Brother

Author:Jessica Lange

“I'm very committed to my family and my town. My biggest local commitment are my children, my husband, my home and my grandchildren.”

Children Home Husband Commitment My Family Towns Committed Locals My Children My Husband Grandchildren My Grandchildren

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“That boom town [Abu Dhabi] proved to be the reef against which my family crashed, the story of many who seek the promised land, and my poetry is a versification of that personal history. History is all I have.”

Stories Land My Family Towns Poetry Is Reefs Promised Land Personal History

Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely

“We would also go to musicals. So Singing In the Rain, On the Town, and West Side Story. Especially West Side Story because played that a lot before VCRs, so that would be something that would be a big deal if it came on, you caught it. So that really started, my family was not in show business at all but really loved that kind of thing.”

Ifs Kind Stories Shows Bigs Would Be Sides Deals Singing Rain My Family Towns West Caught Show Business Big Deal West Side Vcr West Side Story Singing In The Rain

Author:Marisa Tomei

“I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family. Not even casually could I indicate any claims that I might rightly advance in any direction. I have not even any defense to offer for standing on this platform, holding on to this strap, letting myself be carried along by this tram, nor for the people who give way to the tram or walk quietly along or stand gazing into shop windows. Nobody asks me to put up a defense, indeed, but that is irrelevant.”

Source: The Metamorphosis: And Other Stories

“I took notes on the people around me, in my town, in my family, in my memory. I took notes on my own state of mind, my grandiosity, the low self-esteem. I wrote down the funny stuff I overheard. I learned to be like a ship's rat, veined ears trembling, and I learned to scribble it all down.”

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.”

Feels Mean Persons Family Achievement Draws My Friends My Family Towns Possession Small Town Materialistic

Author:Sheryl Crow

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