Family Quote by Elif Batuman Download Open image ““...as for unhappy families, star-crossed lovers, and exiled heroes, they are simply universal.”” — Elif Batuman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Family Universality
“My characters are the family I would have if I could choose them myself.” — Julie Thomas Copy Share Image
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“It is an extraordinary thing to meet your heroes and find them to be everything you hoped they would be.” — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
“...it isn’t things and proximity, or even blood that holds us all together. What makes a family is love and loyalty.” — Genevieve Dewey Copy Share Image
“Characters, for good or evil, are part of an author's family. Once we have let them out of our imaginations, they stay with us… — Andrew Ferrell Copy Share Image
“What is family anyway but people who are always supposed to be there for you? Family should be rock solid, the earth beneath your… — Arlaina Tibensky Copy Share Image
“Family is who you survive with when you need to survive - even if you do not like them.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I learned to accept my family for who they were and understand that, though they might be limited in certain areas, they all had… — Caprice Crane Copy Share Image
“They were family. Twisted, bitter, dangerous, slippery, backstabbing, but family all the same.” — Pippa DaCosta Copy Share Image
My parents were born into a secular country. They met in Turkey's top medical school, moved to America in the nineteen-seventies, and became researchers… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“I leafed through the phrase book. If a Martian read it, the Martian would probably decide to avoid Hungary.” — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
You can't invent something you have no epistemological access to. In a way, it's all recombination. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Poetry is another space, like love, where we extend that extra credit to the writer. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Svetlana said that she identified with that Madonna more than with any other woman in any other painting. She kept asking me what painting… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
One of the most painful parts of a breakup is having the feeling that your life is a story, and then the other person… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Dracula visited the Wolf Department at the Zoological Gardens. "These wolves seem upset at something," he observed. The next morning the cage was all… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I like to think that I know a lot of words, but I definitely don't know all of them. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“I don't know if I ended up siding with the academics just because I happened to end up in graduate school, or if I… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
People don't become writers because they love having spontaneous, real-world interactions with living people as bodies with clothes in time. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Each work of criticism is supposed to build on the body of work, to increase the total sum of human understanding. It's not like… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Humor is really important to me. All my favorite writers are writers I consider to be funny, including Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, even though that's… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“ever day Maureen is Selfish To her friend and Family One she get mad at her friend and family and She need to Grad… — Maureen Andeson Copy Share Image
Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales where walking was part of the… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
“So Jace is my actual family," Kit said. "But I can't go live with him, because him and his hot girlfriend are going off… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away. — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
“She knew how to play him so very well. He slipped his hand around hers. "Friends," he repeated roughly. Her smile was bright enough… — Kathryn Smith Copy Share Image
As a family, we all loved the Flyers. To me, rooting for the Flyers were how I bonded with my dad especially. — Adam F. Goldberg Copy Share Image
The people have always been family to me here in Las Vegas. The people have always been very, very kind to me, and it's… — Randall Cunningham Copy Share Image