#family

O.K., then, all right, they would adopt a white-trash dog. Ha ha. They could name it Zeke, buy it a little corncob pipe and a straw hat. She imagined the puppy, having crapped on the rug, looking up at her, going, Cain’t hep it. But no. Had she come from a perfect place? Everything was transmutable. She imagined the puppy grown up, entertaining some friends, speaking to them in a British accent: My family of origin was, um, rather not, shall we say, of the most respectable... Ha ha, wow, the mind was amazing, always cranking out these— ↗

— George Saunders

#humor #puppy #family

And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#admiration #child #civic #courage #doctor

Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to - to balance the family ticket. ↗

— Lillian Gordy Carter

#family #i #jimmy #lie #never

If you're fascinated by America, you'll be fascinated by family. ↗

— Stephen Carter

#family #fascinated #you

I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid. ↗

— Roberto Cavalli

#advanced age #age #began #family #growing

My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of textiles; from textiles I went to fashion. ↗

— Roberto Cavalli

#chose #course #direction #dream #family

The studied, unquestioning pace of my family irritated me. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#irritated #me #pace #studied

My family is my number one priority. ↗

— Georgina Chapman

#my number one #number #priority

I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth. ↗

— Clayton Christensen

#book #continued #deeply #earth #even

My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India. ↗

— Julie Christie

#child #even #family #i #india