All Quotes

I come from a family rooted in the arts, so I think I naturally gravitated towards performing from an early age.
‐‐ Juliet Rylance

I come from a family that has a long history in the legal community of New York and New York state.
‐‐ David Zabel

I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, baseball and the rest.
‐‐ Robert Kennedy

I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions.
‐‐ Pete du Pont

I come from a family that loves to eat, not exercise. Being fat made even walking hard.
‐‐ Joe Bastianich

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
‐‐ Erma Bombeck

I come from a family where my father is a filmmaker and professor of film.
‐‐ Derek Magyar

I come from a family where soccer has always been very present. My uncles, my father and my brother were all players.
‐‐ Ronaldinho

I come from a family who prided themselves, both sides, on memory. And I was told growing up, constantly, that I was born with a really good memory.
‐‐ Robbie Robertson

I come from a family with a long tradition in shoemaking, and I still live in a region famous for its shoemakers. It is getting harder and harder to find skilled workers. There are no professional training institutes, so we have to train our own employees. And an apprenticeship takes three years.
‐‐ Diego Della Valle

I come from a family with a really strong work ethic - not just my parents, but my aunts, uncles and cousins. It rubbed off on me. I have a cousin in The Bronx who says I'm like the longshoreman of actors. I am a worker.
‐‐ Kerry Washington

I come from a family with big hearts, so I love to put smiles on people's faces.
‐‐ Elliott Yamin

I come from a farming culture, where we valued raw materials above all.
‐‐ Brunello Cucinelli

I come from a folk tradition where you just dance however you feel comfortable.
‐‐ Sufjan Stevens

I come from a food family, so you would think that I would be great at making baked beans or something, but I'm not.
‐‐ Kristian Bush

I come from a football family which has really helped.
‐‐ Frank Lampard

I come from a fragmented society. A country proud to serve as a bridge between Europe and Asia yet unable to bridge its own differences.
‐‐ Safak Pavey

I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
‐‐ Ed Miliband

I come from a good family. I come from a faith-based family.
‐‐ Ryan Merriman

I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.
‐‐ Sidney Poitier

I come from a Hasidic background; I am only one generation removed.
‐‐ Jason Fuchs

I come from a heavy-lidded people. My family, you'll see pictures of them, and it's the same thing all the way back to Scotland.
‐‐ French Stewart

I come from a highly moral family. I was very much taught what was right and wrong, and in my perception of things, I did something that was very wrong. To know that, and to then be so publicly exposed, was very hard.
‐‐ Kimberly Quinn

I come from a huge theater background. The whole action and stunt world just came as the roles were available.
‐‐ Brian Tee

I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values.
‐‐ Dikembe Mutombo

I come from a large family so you can count on the fact that I'm going to have more kids.
‐‐ Benjamin Bratt

I come from a law enforcement family. My grandfather, William J. Comey, was a police officer. Pop Comey is one of my heroes. I have a picture of him on my wall in my office at the FBI, reminding me of the legacy I've inherited and that I must honor.
‐‐ James Comey

I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side.
‐‐ Cyndi Lauper

I come from a line of railroad men. My great-grandfather was a surveyor for the Burlington Railroad.
‐‐ Bill Moseley

I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
‐‐ Bear Grylls

I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or otherwise, all come from the same place.
‐‐ Jamaica Kincaid

I come from a long line of architects. I'm the only one who did not become an architect, but I've been around the drawing aspect and construction my whole life.
‐‐ Kym Whitley

I come from a long line of lumberjacks. My family has a proud heritage of swinging the ax. I've always been quick to take on a big piece of timber, and I'm just as ready to topple the big spending in Washington.
‐‐ Sean Duffy

I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.
‐‐ Sam Wyly

I come from a long line of people who express themselves through the dance. I come from a long line of people who create music through their feet.
‐‐ Savion Glover

I come from a long line of revolutionaries.
‐‐ Joy Harjo

I come from a long line of serial embellishers. Sometimes a good story's got a ghost in it; sometimes a panther chases my Uncle Bill and Fred Price home from a coon hunt.
‐‐ Tony Earley

I come from a long line of sportsmen.
‐‐ Armin Zoggeler

I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.
‐‐ Robert Vaughn

I come from a long line of strong and confident women out of New Orleans. My grandmother and great-grandmother were women who ran their homes and were leaders in their communities. I was never taught that there was anything that I couldn't do, and I believed that.
‐‐ Stephanie Allain

I come from a magnetic field of Catholicism. I was baptised by my mother's family, who were all traditional Catholics. But my mother was the black sheep of the family - she ran away to the ballet at 17.
‐‐ Pawel Pawlikowski

I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.
‐‐ Vera Farmiga

I come from a middle class background. I have travelled a lot by trains and have lived in the world. It is a world I cannot get away from; I would not even want to.
‐‐ Imtiaz Ali

I come from a middle class family, and my parents weren't too supportive of my career choices.
‐‐ Kangana Ranaut

I come from a military family.
‐‐ Brittany Murphy

I come from a mixed background - my mom's black, my dad's white - and I traveled around the world.
‐‐ Tia Mowry

I come from a mixed family, where my mother is art house cinema and my father is B-movie genre cinema. They're estranged, and I've been trying to bring them together for all of my career to one degree or another.
‐‐ Quentin Tarantino

I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.
‐‐ Michele Bachmann

I come from a mother who can cry at a G.E. commercial.
‐‐ Cory Booker