Quotes About Reflection

He was silent for a moment, staring out the window into the rain; I imagined he was contemplating the fact that his family's presence was turning the locals into giant dogs.

There's nothing like meeting someone's family to get a true sense of them and a reflection of their ethics and personality. It just makes them a more rounded person.

I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do.

We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father.

I would like to go back and spend a Christmas with my family and myself when I was five years old and just see what that dynamic would be like. Observe it. I think it would be a magical gift.

If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock.

I do believe at the end of the night when you're with your family, the character gets hung up on the door like a coat, and is there to be taken on the next morning.

I've tried to meditate, but I feel like I always overthink the process. When I need to calm my mind, I will go for a family hike...

I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again.

I decided long ago that my family absolutely comes first, and I don't regret that. I do, however, sometimes wish I had an extra five hours or so in the day!

I don't have any home. Everyone I grew up with, my family, are all dead. So I feel kind of like a ghost. I'm more interested in the past.

I wish I had been more mature. I wish I had handled the immediate aftermath of the accident involving my family better.

I always say that No Ordinary Family was the show that should've been.

I think I get from my books what other people get from family or a relationship or from prayer.

I do a lot of writing about my family.

Everything family does is reflection on the other people.

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

So like a forgotten fire a childhood can always flare up again within us.

That's been hard being away from the family, because Washington can be lonely. When you tune out of all the activity, that's like, you're alone.

Remember no matter how many candles you blow out this year there's one gal who will always think of you as young strong and handsome - your mother.

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

I love being a great-grandparent but what I hate is being the the mother of a grandparent.

Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved?

It seems to me that since I've had children I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while but when I did write I had more of a self to speak from.