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Family Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the…
- There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked doors, there are…
- Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as…
- Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which…
- I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was…
- I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father,…
- Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or…
- Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to…
- The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot…
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- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
- Friendship is essentially a partnership. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest sympathies to… — Gerard Arpey
- I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard. — Rodney Atkins
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. — Marcus Aurelius