Sean Longstaff Quotes

Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form.

Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best understood by others through the persons who came nearest to us in our earliest years.

I stayed close to my family. My family never changed.

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.

Be nice to your siblings. They are your link to the past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

I most earnestly advise you, again and again, love, honor, and obey your parents. Friends like them, you need not expect to find in this world.

I've never had an empty house. Ever.

My family is everything. They love me unconditionally.

No affairs for me. It is so wonderful to have a family to come home to, to sit with them, pull each other's legs... To lose all of that for what? Who's got the time? I'm having great fun working.

I never pushed to be a star. I didn't want to. I had my home, my family. Session work let you do the music and leave.

In some ways, siblings, and especially sisters, are more influential in your childhood than your parents.

I grew up in a family where I had a lot of different siblings from - you know, I grew up in a big family, and I think it's a beautiful thing.

My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven, but I have a great sense of loyalty to all of them, especially the four from my childhood. If those people needed my help, I would be there for them.

If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.

I'm very similar to the way I was when I was 5.

I was born in Joliet, Illinois. It was totally Midwestern - small, little house, two great parents, and a sister and a beagle.

I had grown up with four sisters.

I've got two younger brothers.

My father was my hero when I was still a boy.

It was a fairly normal happy upbringing. Not a lot of money, but a lot of love.

Even though I'm in this big, crazy business, I'm still just myself. I still celebrate Christmas; I still live at home.

I was born in Manly Hospital, I pretty much grew up in my grandmother's house until my parents bought their own home.