Family Background Quotes

I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.
Bob Newhart

Funny, Family, Person

I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
Anne Tyler

Family, History, Character

Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.
Charles Kennedy

Education, Family, Place

The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.
Kim Jong Il

Family, Revolution, Through

My family background was deeply Christian.
Abbe Pierre

Family, Christian, Background

I came from a folk-family background. Although we weren't really the all-singing, all-dancing-around-the-piano folkies or anything like that, there is that idea of singing and playing with your parents and your family and your cousins.
Teddy Thompson

Family, Parents, Idea

I don't come from money or an educated family background or any sort of supportive family life, so all of my choices are made on my own.
Cat Power

Life, Family, Money

Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.
James S. Coleman

Family, Children, Different

My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.
William Standish Knowles

Family, Business, Matters

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