All Quotes

I come from a broken home. My parents split up when I was nine. Everyone gave me a good wallop. But I come from a time when you just put up with that, you got on with things rather than sitting moaning about them.
‐‐ Len Goodman

I come from a Catholic religion, but I'm not Catholic.
‐‐ Monica Bellucci

I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
‐‐ Patricia Ireland

I come from a class which used to be called the gentry - which is nowadays mistakenly used to include the nobility, but in fact is not. The gentry was essentially the untitled landowning class.
‐‐ Julian Fellowes

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.
‐‐ Tom Jones

I come from a coffee-loving family, and you can always tell when my sister and I have been around, because both of us collect all the dead coffee from everyone's morning cup, pour it over ice, and drink it. This is a disgusting habit.
‐‐ Laurie Colwin

I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.
‐‐ Nadia Comaneci

I come from a country in which I experienced economic collapse.
‐‐ Angela Merkel

I come from a country that lives and breathes rugby, and I didn't think there would be anywhere else in the world that could be the same. But New Zealand takes it to another dimension. It's extraordinary how much passion Kiwis have for the game.
‐‐ Luke Evans

I come from a culture where the pub is the centre of the community. The pub is the Internet. It's where information is gathered, collated and addressed.
‐‐ Rhys Ifans

I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.
‐‐ Mads Mikkelsen

I come from a cycling background. I happened to be good at it; the opportunities came my way. It wasn't something I necessarily searched to be involved in; it wasn't a dream. I just had an opportunity which you couldn't refuse.
‐‐ Victoria Pendleton

I come from a dancing background, and I know it's stereotypical, but I would dance because I wasn't comfortable speaking to people.
‐‐ Carrie Ann Inaba

I come from a democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.
‐‐ Carl Paladino

I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.
‐‐ Alexander McQueen

I come from a district where the veterans are not the richest in the country.
‐‐ Corrine Brown

I come from a duo, actually, quite literally. My parents are Linda and Eddie, and they had an act in Vegas called 'Love's Way.'
‐‐ Jenny Lewis

I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
‐‐ Tamora Pierce

I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.
‐‐ Dolly Parton

I come from a family of actors. My grandfather was like a Laurence Olivier with the Comedie Francaise. Since I was four I went every week to the Comedie Francaise. My aunt and grandmother were there, but my grandfather was a big star.
‐‐ Emmanuelle Seigner

I come from a family of all women and one boy, my brother. We're all women and we're all precocious and opinionated and like to have fun and we always had friends in the house and we were always, like, half-naked.
‐‐ Jemima Kirke

I come from a family of bankers and lawyers, and they joked that they can't believe I'm the one that gets to go to the White House.
‐‐ Thom Browne

I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.
‐‐ Dick Bruna

I come from a family of Catholic Italians, and that will always be in my blood.
‐‐ Jenna Morasca

I come from a family of compulsive collectors, and my first memories are really all about collecting. I remember visiting flea markets with my mother or my grandmother - she goes to local ones around Varese, Italy, every Sunday when she's at home.
‐‐ Margherita Missoni

I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line.
‐‐ Ryan Reynolds

I come from a family of domestics. I think most African-Americans of my age do. They were trusted by their bosses. I have met so many white people that spent more time with their nannies than they have with their own parents.
‐‐ Lee Daniels

I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.
‐‐ J. K. Simmons

I come from a family of farmers on both sides of my family.
‐‐ Eric Ripert

I come from a family of fishermen. Fishing is very important to us. We don't hunt. We're not gun folk.
‐‐ Nick Offerman

I come from a family of four brothers, so I like sports.
‐‐ Jurnee Smollett

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.
‐‐ Katherine Dunn

I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.
‐‐ Sting

I come from a family of Mississippi sharecroppers just a few generations away from slavery, and I experienced a lot of racism growing up - you can't avoid that if you're a person of color in this country.
‐‐ Carrie Mae Weems

I come from a family of pacifists, so it's not like I was going to join the war. Sweden is not like the States or England where you might get sent to Afghanistan next month.
‐‐ Bill Skarsgard

I come from a family of professional dog-showers, one step above carnies, but I didn't want to join the family business.
‐‐ Rebel Wilson

I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
‐‐ Yasmine Al Masri

I come from a family of Russian immigrant Jews who were all big storytellers, who would get together, and one would try to top the others' stories, and stories would get bigger and bigger. And the lying aspect, the exaggeration, would get large.
‐‐ Philip Schultz

I come from a family of scholars who got their Master's degrees. To my grandma - and to a lot of people - an education was a way of making it out of the worst parts of their life.
‐‐ Big Sean

I come from a family of servants. My father's father was a servant, and my father's father's father was a slave.
‐‐ Lee Daniels

I come from a family of storytellers. Growing up, my father would make up these stories about how he and my mother met and fell in love, and my mother would tell me these elaborately visual stories of growing up as a kid in New York, and I was always so enrapt.
‐‐ Aja Naomi King

I come from a family of tall, curvy women. I developed in my body and my shape far earlier, so from a young age I accepted it. I embraced it and saw it as an advantage.
‐‐ Ricki-Lee Coulter

I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs

I come from a family of teasers myself. My grandfather was from Liverpool, and he had a dry sense of humor, and he would tease us terribly. My brother Beau was so skilled in his teasing that he could get a rise out of me by simply pointing at me.
‐‐ Jeff Bridges

I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.
‐‐ Mos Def

I come from a family of well-endowed booty women.
‐‐ Estelle

I come from a family of working people. My parents were Guatemalan immigrants who spent most of their lives in the service industry.
‐‐ Hector Tobar

I come from a family of working women, my mum went to work two weeks after I was born - my parents had no money, there was no choice.
‐‐ Lindsay Davenport

I come from a family of writers. My mom had been a writer, nonfiction books, and her mother was a playwright in the 1930s and '40s. And my twin brother, Alexi, is a writer on 'The Following.'
‐‐ Noah Hawley