Ada Yonath Quotes

I grew up in a two-bedroom house with my grandfather, my mom and dad and four kids. I slept on the couch or on the floor, and I always wanted to have my own space.

We slept in the park before we had a house, and eventually we shared a home - my parents, my grandparents and five uncles, my family, all of us - on White Oaks Street by Magnolia Street near the railroad. Those were hard times, but I loved living there.

I grew up in Georgia where my parents, little brother Zurab and I shared a flat with my paternal grandparents and two uncles in the capital, Tbilisi. Times were hard and the country was racked by civil war.

I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.

At one time, when I was eight years old, my mother and father, my brother and my sisters - we had to move back in with my grandmother, and there were 13 of us living in one house.

Our house was destroyed in 1943, and I moved the family to a cottage I owned before the war in the Bavarian Alps. This cottage was meant for a very few people, and at the end of the war, there were about 13 people in this very small house.

My family fled Iran in October 1978 as a result of the coming revolution when I was two years old. In the early days, my entire family lived together in a very crowded house, where I shared a room with my sister, cousin, and grandmother, and we would all listen to my grandmother tell stories before bedtime.

I grew up in a flat with my brothers and my cousins. My brothers were in the same bed.

When I was born my parents lived in a flat so small that it now legally can't be rented out as a dwelling.

I spent the first three years of my life with my parents, grandmother and two aunties in a tiny council house in Glasgow.

My mom, how she raised me, my brothers, my cousins, when I was a kid with one bedroom for 12 people... You think about all that, and God blessed me to get somewhere and do something I love and do something I've done since I was a kid. And blessed me with the talent to do it.

As one of seven children, our family life was full of energy and fun - we all knew how to laugh and work hard.

When I was a little kid, me and all my family lived in a house the size of my daughter's room.

I grew up in the hood in Miami in a poor neighborhood.

My father was a coach, so there was a lot of moving around, not having a base.

Once I remember shouting, 'Mum, can I get a pound for an ice cream?' and she said, 'I haven't got a pound, Kyle.' People take so much for granted, but I will never forget that.

I grew up with dogs. My wife really loves dogs.

I've got two daughters of my own, and I loved watching my children grow up.

I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married.

Having children obviously changes your priorities, but when you start to see life through these innocent eyes and seeing everything for the first time, you appreciate the small things.

And when you're poor, you grow up fast.

I love kids. All my best friends have kids, and I love, love, love kids.