"Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper."

Family, Mother, Father, Film

16

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper."

Exlpore more Family quotes

"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

"That great Cathedral space which was childhood."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Family, Childhood, Space

"Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you."

Anna Quindlen, American Journalist

Family, Mother, Baby, Gay, Man

"Mrs. Binnie says we throw out more with a spoon than the men can be bringing in with a shovel...Binnie-like. Our men like the good living. And what if we don't be having too much money, Patsy dear? Sure and we do have lashings of things no money could be buying. There'll be enough squeezed out for Cuddles when the time comes. The Good Man Above will be seeing to that."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Family, Gratitude, Poverty, Faith

"Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents."

Jonathan Safran Foer, American Novelist

Family, Parenting, Children, Knowledge, Wisdom

"My dad and mom did what a lot of parents did at the time. They sacrificed a lot of their life and used a lot of their disposable income to make sure their children were educated."

Sundar Pichai, Indian Business Leader

Family, Parenting, Education, Sacrifice

"Jason's got a family, so it's difficult for us to get together."

Jeremy London, American Actor

Family,

"A new universe is born whenever a new baby is born."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Family, Baby, New Life, Creation

"I've met plenty of embarrassing parents, but Kronos, the evil Titan Lord who wanted to destroy Western Civilization? Not the kind of dad you invited toschool for Career Day."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Family, Humor, Truth, Life, Power

"Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Family, Embarrassment, Parents, Children, Truth

Explore more quotes by Jim Jarmusch

"I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down."

Sex

"It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things."

Music

"I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely."

Actor

"Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy."

Contradiction

"I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way."

Poet

"I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake."

Mistake

"I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their presence or their own personality that make a character, that exaggerates some qualities and suppresses other qualities. It's always a real collaboration for me."

Work

"I didn't go to classes there, but ended up at the Cinematheque, and there it opened up even wider because there I saw a variety of films from all over the world."

Cinematheque

"I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there."

Literature

"I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema."

Cinema