"I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me."

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"I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me."

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"I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years."

Wilbur Wright, American Inventor

Family, Brother, Man, Years

"Almost everything in 'A Day With Wilbur Robinson' has some basis in truth. And yes, my sister did pay me to feed her grapes while she talked to her boyfriend on the phone."

William Joyce, American Author

Family, Sister, Truth, Boyfriend, Day

"As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years."

James Ellroy, American Writer

Family, Dad, Mother, Thought, Crime

"It is going to be special to drive in the Netherlands because it means I can take part in a Formula One demonstration in a country where I have a lot of family and friends."

Nelson Piquet, Brazilian Celebrity

Family, Country, Formula, Friends

"Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes."

Salman Rushdie, Indian Novelist

Family, Parenting, Communication, Love

"A daughter is a rainbow - a curve of light through scattered mist that lifts the spirit with her prismatic presence. Is a shadow - a reminder of something brilliant ducking out of sight, too easily drawn away. She is an aria, swelling within the concern chamber, an echo reverberating across a miniature sea. She is a secret, whispered, a hint of what we cannot know until it finds us. She is a sliver of her father, a shard of her mother. A daughter is a promise, kept."

Ellen Hopkins, American Novelist

Family, Daughter, Love, Promise

"I am extraordinarily lucky, I was born in a family of strong moral values, and in my life I was able to do what I liked best: debuts, great theatres, but above all, inner and deep satisfaction."

Jose Carreras, Spanish Musician

Family, Life, Values, Deep

"When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I'm out there to win."

Joe Frazier, American Athlete

Family, Brother, Pity

"But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do."

Jim Hightower, American Activist

Family, Mother, Right, Wrongs

"I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe."

Roald Hoffmann, Polish Scientist

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