Cary Fowler Quotes

I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

My father was not a political animal.

I never thought about the relationship of my mother, my family, to the content of my work.

I love my dad. It's fair to say that I probably would not have thought of politics had I not seen my mom and dad involved in politics.

I come from Texas, and my grandmother and mother were born in Arkansas.

I wasn't from a political family. Nobody talked politics.

People often ask me when I realised that I was different. Some people seem surprised that it's a question that I cannot answer. I was never told that I was different. I was always just Sinead; I was just like my dad.

I remember fancying myself a junior 'McCainiac' in 2000, though politics were rarely discussed in our household.

My dad's side of the family were calm folk from England, but the other side just loved to party. Somewhere between those two factions is me.

The South just keeps right on playing good time Southern music.

Growing up in Virginia, I was surrounded by two different cultures.

I spent the first 16 years of my life in Scotland. My whole family is there. It's in my blood and informs my sense of humour, my point of view, the people I choose to spend time with, everything.

There are beautiful songs people write about love and dancing. But it's political issues that should be addressed.

The people of the Balkans are like a dysfunctional family. We may fight and argue, but in the end we are family.

Good southern boys always have this connection with their mom.

When I tell my husband stories of how I've grown up, he can't relate to it. I like it though, yeah, it's a badge of honour. You're from Up North, you've got to be a tiny bit rough round the edges. That's the charm!

I love Chennai and its people. My mother always tells me, 'You should have been born a South Indian!'

I've always kind of gotten my personality from my mom, and whether that's 'star quality' or whatever... a lot of her is in me.

I'm the product of my parents' dreams and aspirations.

Intellectual development was paramount to my father, of course, but he was hardly a geek. He was a man who happened to be of a certain Southern culture and a certain age, and his talents and tastes had been molded accordingly.

I am not really trying to act like my dad.

My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.

I grew up in the suburbs, which I don't think shaped me very much.

Everyone's entitled to their opinion about my father. Some people think he's a distraction and takes some of my shine away, but, for me, that's not the case.

I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.