family

Quotations

Quotations on the topic of ‘family’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).

  • “There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of ‘family values.’ And that is to get right down to the root cause of the problem.” -Mike Royko

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  • “My whole family’s been in the business. My whole family is crazy.” -Blake Lively

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  • “If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.” -Rachael Ray

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  • “Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it.” -John Ratzenberger

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  • “It’s a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I’m not going to drop the ball on my shift.” -King Abdullah II

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  • “I have one friend that I’ve had since I was born, and she’s from Coatzacoalcos. She’s not really impressed or interested in the actor’s life. My family isn’t really either.” -Salma Hayek

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  • “I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.” -Eliot Spitzer

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  • “Well, one of the most important things for Americans to be reminded of is that a lot of the exceptional nature of our country is founded in Judeo-Christian values that promotes individualism, personal responsibility, a strong work ethic, and a commitment to family, charity.” -Jim DeMint

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  • “There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it – roaming the world.”…

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  • “I can make dressing – or stuffing. Y’all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It’s really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.” -Edie Brickell

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  • “If you feel rooted in your home and family, if you’re active in your community, there’s nothing more empowering. The best way to make a difference in the world is to start by making a difference in your own life.” -Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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  • “You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.” -Robert Benchley

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  • “We’ll be going to the fish market and a farmer’s market this afternoon to get what we need to make and eat dinner as a family. I’m trying to expose my kids to going to a farmers market or the fish market and learning what that’s all about.” -Emeril Lagasse

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  • “Here’s the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there…

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  • “From very early on in my childhood – four, five years old – I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected – I was very tall and skinny, and I didn’t look like anybody else, I didn’t even look like any…

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  • “A rumor that followed me forever was that my family was in the mafia. For years I had to live with it. They’d call me the mafia princess, so I rolled with it for the rest of high school. People even joke about it today.” -Giuliana Rancic

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  • “Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch ‘American Idol’ and video their children’s concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.” -Jodi Picoult

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  • “My whole family is very sarcastic and constantly making jokes.” -Emily Deschanel

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  • “My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn’t make at my family reunion.” -Wentworth Miller

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  • “Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.” -James Brown

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  • “Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand!” -Oscar Pistorius

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  • “One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. ‘One-size-fits-all,’ and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is ‘slavery.’”…

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  • “Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit… Santa, who was jolly – but, let’s face it, he was also very judgmental.” -Julia Sweeney

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  • “The family is the school of duties – founded on love.” -Felix Adler

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  • “My family were from Jamaica.” -Diane Abbott

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  • “I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.” -Michael Landon

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  • “When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.” -Dave Grohl

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  • “My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.” -Hugh Leonard

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  • “When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.” -Christopher Lasch

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  • “People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.” -Keith Henson

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  • “I’m the git in the family.” -Clive Owen

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  • “When I go back to family reunions everybody goes, ‘Hey cousin! Hey Auntie!’ And I’m like, ‘Okay I don’t know you, I have no idea who you are.’ I am auntie and cousin for so many and even the ones in prison call me collect. And I’ll be like, ‘Which of my family members are…

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  • “A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed, and strong families with a man and a woman – bonded together for life – always have been, and always will be, the key to such families.” -Jim Bunning

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  • “I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They’re like you and me.” -Ziggy Marley

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  • “My family and friends treat me as they always have.” -Daniel Craig

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  • “My health and my family are the core of my being.” -Jon Bon Jovi

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  • “Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.” -Jerry B. Jenkins

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  • “I do come from a strong family.” -Arlen Specter

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  • “I’m not asking that people accept homosexuality. I’m not asking that they believe like I do that it’s inborn. I’m not asking that. All I’m saying is don’t let these children suffer without a family because of your bias.” -Rosie O’Donnell

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  • “If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that’s broken apart, I think that’s probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.” -Bridget Moynahan

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  • “My dad’s whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we didn’t have that big Indian community. I don’t really have anything interesting to say about it. When I talk about it people are like, ‘meh, let’s talk about something else.’” -Mindy Kaling

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  • “All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.” -Amy Winehouse

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  • “I’ve always wanted to do a family movie.” -Adam Sandler

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  • “None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.” -Lena Dunham

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  • “We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn’t ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.” -Jonathan Safran Foer

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  • “I have other obligations now – the show, my family, my life… though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn’t have any of those things.” -Rob Lowe

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  • “When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.” -Lauryn Hill

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  • “The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother’s wall in her house.” -Annie Leibovitz

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  • “You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational – but it’s in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.” -Adriana Trigiani

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  • “‘American Horror’ is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.” -Rob Sheffield

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  • “My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn’t especially religious.” -Tony Blair

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  • “If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who shows up for the funeral.” -Gregory Nunn

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  • “I have a mother that’s very strong and family that surround me and constantly tell me they love me.” -Whitney Houston

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  • “I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.” -Gene Tierney

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  • “A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again that’s not the case in my family.” -Chaz Bono

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  • “We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.” -John Sculley

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  • “My wife is so analytical with raising kids, and I am not. My feeling is if they turn out good, then that means I was a good daddy and put a lot of effort into it. If they turn out bad, it means they took after her side of the family.” -Jeff Foxworthy

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  • “When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.” -Sachin Tendulkar

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  • “I want my family to resemble the family I came from.” -Katherine Heigl

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  • “I am a big fan of smelly cheeses but the rest of the family don’t seem to be particularly keen on them.” -Johnny Vegas

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  • “I love being around my friends and my family and spending time with my husband. I like being normal and recharging my batteries, and I feel like I have the coolest job in the world where I get to get on stage and perform and get to do a lot of really amazing things.” -Carrie…

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  • “Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.” -Bruce Barton

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  • “My father never talked about the sacrifices that the family made for me.” -Novak Djokovic

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  • “It’s long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits.” -Martha Plimpton

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  • “I can’t move back to England. My home is in France now. I’d love to but I can’t. My family’s all there now.” -Kristin Scott Thomas

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  • “I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally – with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.” -Bruce Springsteen

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  • “By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.” -Lawrence Welk

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  • “If you wish to spare yourself and your venerable family, give heed to my advice with the ear of intelligence. If you do not, you will see what God has willed.” -Hulagu Khan

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  • “Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.” -J. C. Watts

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  • “The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you’ve got to come home.” -Barry Gibb

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  • “I want a baby and I want a family, for sure.” -Rashida Jones

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  • “Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity.” -William Hague

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  • “My family is my life, and I’ll never lose that.” -Jessica Simpson

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  • “I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don’t know, I grew up in such a Catholic family that I kind of liked to test the boundaries a little bit and I think I had fun watching my mom laugh.” -Jenny McCarthy

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  • “In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.” -Anna Quindlen

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  • “I’ve been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, ‘Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!’” -Cher

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  • “Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.” -Elizabeth Warren

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  • “I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy.” -Ben Stein

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  • “During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an attorney, it caused me no end of anxiety. Despite the fact that I knew I was contributing to our family by caring for our children, I still felt that my worth was less because I…

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  • “For all of higher civilization’s recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.” -Dennis Prager

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  • “Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.” -Tom Allen

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  • “It never occurred to me that I wouldn’t go to college and have a career – as well as a family – of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible.” -Dee Dee Myers

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  • “Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don’t want to travel I don’t want to be in a hotel room away from my family.” -Gary Oldman

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  • “There’s no road map on how to raise a family: it’s always an enormous negotiation.” -Meryl Streep

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  • “We all started snowboarding in the beginning as a family just to be closer together, go on trips. It was our soccer, but instead of Dad yelling at me from the sideline he is there riding with me and hitting the jumps even before I am hitting them.” -Shaun White

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  • “We need to recognise that what really matters isn’t buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment.” -Peter Singer

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  • “I think that’s become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family – a statement – and you can afford it, then that’s a noble project.” -Sylvester Stallone

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  • “I have a great family by the way, but you need to find people who can pull something out from you that might be otherwise unseen.” -Kristen Stewart

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  • “After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.” -Billy Sunday

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  • “I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I’ve always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my…

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  • “Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.” -Imelda Marcos

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  • “In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.” -Mary Wollstonecraft

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  • “Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the ’90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together… something we don’t spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness.” -Alan Thicke

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  • “I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone’s got their own definition.” -Eric Clapton

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  • “Nobody in my family ever thought that I’d a be a model.” -Cindy Crawford

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  • “I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back.” -Tim Roth

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  • “I can’t say it’s not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.” -LaToya Jackson

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  • “Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it’s not bestowed on you by the royal family, it’s not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public.” -Rod Stewart

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  • “I’ve never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn’t some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So…

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  • “AP promoted me to the White House beat because I knew Clinton, his family, friends, and staff better than anybody in the national press corps. Those contacts helped me break a few stories and get my career in Washington jump-started.” -Ron Fournier

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  • “We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we’re not working hard enough.” -Harold Ramis

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  • “You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.” -Carly Fiorina

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  • “I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you’re actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn’t find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner…

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  • “When you look at a family, if you have a family that never interacts with each other, never has strong conversation with each other, never has disagreements, nine times out of ten you have a very cold family and they’re not going to be, at the end, they’re not going to be close.” -Mike Singletary

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  • “I don’t have a saviour or a royal family.” -John Malkovich

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  • “The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away from the ‘Family Values’ issues that they believe should be the overwhelming concerns of Evangelicals. They have expressed their displeasure in letters of protest circulated through the religious media.” -Tony Campolo

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  • “I only tour in short bursts, I’m only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.” -Harry Connick, Jr.

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  • “I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.” -Don Marquis

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  • “I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.” -Francis Ford Coppola

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  • “By the time I was 30, nobody would work with me. I was friendless, I was hopeless, I was suicidal, lost my family – I mean, it was bad. Bottomed out, didn’t know what I was going to do. I actually thought I was going to be a chef – go to work in a…

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  • “Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.” -B. B. King

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  • “If you see a black family, it’s looting, but if it’s a white family they are looking for food.” -Kanye West

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  • “I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.” -Jackie Chan

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  • “Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.” -Clare Boothe Luce

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  • “The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.” -Heinrich Heine

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  • “We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.” -Barbra Streisand

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  • “Never write an advertisement which you wouldn’t want your family to read. You wouldn’t tell lies to your own wife. Don’t tell them to mine.” -David Ogilvy

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  • “What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.” -Danica McKellar

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  • “I’m getting older now, so I should think about a family, but certainly not tomorrow.” -Christina Ricci

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  • “I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.” -Vivienne Westwood

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  • “Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have.” -Mark Cuban

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  • “Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.” -Elizabeth Edwards

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  • “If you don’t have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don’t take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It’s crazy.” -Jack Welch

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  • “I am suspending my presidential campaign, because of the continued distractions, the continued hurt caused on me and my family, not because we are not fighters. Not because I’m not a fighter.” -Herman Cain

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  • “Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.” -Joe Baca

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  • “Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt ‘safe’ there.” -Robert Cormier

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  • “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.” -Garrett Hardin

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  • “There’s something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.” -Jacqueline Bisset

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  • “Young actors often don’t think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.” -Natalie Portman

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  • “I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I’m there trying to do it.” -Yoko Ono

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  • “You don’t have to give birth to someone to have a family.” -Sandra Bullock

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  • “I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn’t stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.” -Nadia Giosia

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  • “I am very lucky, I have a very tight group of friends and a very supportive family, and to this date no-one has ever sold a story on me.” -Sienna Miller

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  • “I’m lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I’ll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself.” -Shakira

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  • “I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others.” -Kate Moss

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  • “My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I’m tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It’s hilarious. So we decided that I’m going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family.” -Gordon Ramsay

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  • “I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family… they are nearly always seen as victims.” -Francesca Annis

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  • “My family and I built my whole career from scratch.” -Maria Sharapova

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  • “I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with ‘who am I?’ – those complications when one is searching for one’s self.” -Jeanne Moreau

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  • “Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.” -Queen Elizabeth II

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  • “Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job – this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce – that’s when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a…

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  • “A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That’s why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.” -Joe DiMaggio

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  • “My family is awesome.” -Miranda Lambert

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  • “I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.” -Jeff Bingaman

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  • “I can’t imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What’s a home and family for if it’s not the center of one’s life?” -Loretta Young

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  • “My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.” -David Ogden Stiers

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  • “Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I’m very medical. I come from a medical family.” -Nicole Kidman

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  • “You follow any family around, you’re going to see elation, you’re going to see disharmony.” -Joan Jett

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  • “So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and… Wanda Sykes and John Legend… we’re adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that’s the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.” -Henry Louis Gates

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  • “In every song I write, whether it’s a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.” -Billie Joe Armstrong

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  • “It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can’t fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.” -Barbara Mandrell

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  • “Seeing the family is a very important part of my weekend.” -Susannah York

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  • “The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.” -Kamisese Mara

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  • “Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.” -Novalis

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  • “I understand what it’s like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People say, ‘She’s got her daughter she’s got her husband.’ Yeah, but she hasn’t got anyone else.” -Emma Thompson

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  • “The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family – my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid – to live in the apartment building.” -Tom Morello

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  • “The Rooneys are very classy. They’re very deliberate with their decision-making. Once you’re part of that family, Steeler nation, they treat you with respect. You don’t have a lot of rambunctious players running around.” -Tony Dorsett

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  • “I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They’d never seen anything like it.” -Hayden Fry

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  • “No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.” -Peace Pilgrim

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  • “My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.” -Julie Andrews

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  • “In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it’s not perfect, that’s okay, there are a lot more coming along.” -Antonin Scalia

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  • “I’m worried about that man or woman sitting around – the coffee table tonight or in their kitchen talking about how are we going to get to work. How are we going to have the dignity to take care of our family.” -Rick Perry

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  • “Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.” -Jessica Savitch

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  • “The last thing family and friends want is for you to spend money on them that you don’t have or that you can’t really spare.” -Suze Orman

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  • “I believe there are three keys to success. For me it is keeping my priorities in order: It’s my faith and my family, and then the business.” -Kathy Ireland

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  • “I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.” -Paul Lynde

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  • “Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn’t making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.” -Ang Lee

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  • “Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.” -Muhammad Yunus

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  • “The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.”…

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  • “I come from a family of losers, and I’ve rejected my family as something I don’t want to be like.” -Sting

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  • “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.” -Liam Neeson

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  • “Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.” -Sandra Day O’Connor

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  • “There is an overwhelming amount of information available to us all on the web each day, not to mention what is shared with us by our family, friends, fans, and followers. This necessitates the need to filter through all that information and to decide for ourselves where to put our attention.” -Simon Mainwaring

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  • “They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What’s funny about that?” -Casey Stengel

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  • “You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It’s a Catch-22 kind of thing.” -Mikhail Baryshnikov

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  • “Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.” -Camille Paglia

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  • “I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball – just spend a lot more time with my family.” -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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  • “I know it’s a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we’re all out of our minds. They’re the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I’ve ever met, my siblings.” -Dana Carvey

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  • “Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.” -Willa Cather

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  • “Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.” -Jennifer Granholm

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