Gail Buckley famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • My family background was deeply Christian.

  • If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

  • All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

  • But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family. I forgot the songs they sung - and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue; I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now - yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.

  • Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

  • I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

  • Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.

  • Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

  • I didn't think about anything past tomorrow because anything past tomorrow was just like cloud busting - it depended soley on the person looking at the clouds and it could rain any minute

  • Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.