A Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out.

Joyce Carol Oates

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Drown Family Listen Noise Out Spoken

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Joyce Carol Oates
American - Writer
Born: June 16, 1938

A book isn't noise to drown out other noise.

Howard Jacobson

With 'Hollow Circus,' I used a family story that haunted me as a kid, one of those anecdotes about a family member that would rarely be spoken of in front of the children.

Peter Milligan

I believe that what we get out of life is what we've set ourselves up to get, so there's no such thing as an inconsequential decision. Our destinies are the culmination of all the choices we've made along the way, which is why it's imperative to listen hard to your inner voice when it speaks up. Don't let anyone else's noise drown it out.

Megan McCafferty

I'm very close to my family but this life moves so fast. Coming off stage, you're so tired so forget to make the call or send the text. By then five days have gone by and you haven't spoken to your family.

Jonas Blue

The women in my family are all super-emotional. The catchphrase in our family is 'Listen to my words, not my tears.'

Sara Bareilles

When you're a kid, you listen to what your family is listening to. For my family, it was bluegrass.

Sara Watkins

Having the responsibilities of family life forced me to drown out office politics and focus on delivering my best at home and work.

Stephanie Ruhle

We were a musical family, and we had record players. It would be a family thing to listen to music together.

Rag'n'Bone Man

There have been a lot of times in my life where I came out to a perfect stranger by some chance encounter. It's way easier than coming out to your family. I started high school 'out,' then I had to tell my family. I had to introduce myself to the family.

Liv Bruce

What the color is, who the daddy be, who the mama is don’t mean nothin’. We family, carin’ for each other. Family make us strong in times of trouble. We all stick together, help each other out. That the real meanin’ of family. When you grow up, you take that family feelin’ with you.

Kathleen Grissom

Family was even a bigger word than I imagined, wide and without limitations, if you allowed it, defying easy definition. You had family that was supposed to be family and wasn't, family that wasn't family but was, halves becoming whole, wholes splitting into two; it was possible to lack whole, honest love and connection from family in lead roles, yet to be filled to abundance by the unexpected supporting players.

Deb Caletti

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Steve Jobs

Your first family is your blood family and you always be true to that. That means something. But there's another family and that's the kind you go out and find. Maybe even by accident sometimes. And they're as much blood as your first family. Maybe more so, because they don't have to look out for you and they don't have to love you. They choose to.

Dennis Lehane

If you live close to an International Rescue Committee office in the United States, find out how you can assist a refugee family as they transition to American life. Invite a newly arrived family to your home for a welcoming meal. Listen to their hopes and dreams, and share your own.

Mandy Patinkin

Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame the family for its failure to be a family.