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).
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“Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like ‘Modern Family,’ but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change.” -Eric McCormack
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“If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.” -Shirley MacLaine
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“Santa Barbara is my hood. I mean, it’s not much of a hood, but it is definitely like my hood. I claim Santa Barbara like I claim my family. I’m going to be married and buried there.” -Katy Perry
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“We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.” -Dan Quayle
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“My wife, my family, my friends – they’ve all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.” -Nicholas Sparks
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“The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being’s functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.” -Havelock Ellis
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“I come from a great family. I’ve seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.” -Sidney Poitier
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“Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.” -Amos Bronson Alcott
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“I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.” -Sheryl Crow
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“I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.” -Louis Farrakhan
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“I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn’t quite have perhaps the drive or, I don’t know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.” -David Hockney
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“I do not see my family life in any way, shape, or form as an opportunity for a photo.” -Shania Twain
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“My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family’s subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.” -Charles Kuralt
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“I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife’s family, my friends, my foundation and kids all around the world who admired me.” -Tiger Woods
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“Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.” -Denzel Washington
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“I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom’s family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car – it was the late sixties – and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.” -Tori Amos
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“The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family ‘gets together’ alone.” -Ashley Montagu
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“I can’t tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it’s like going to somebody else’s Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you’re there and you’re not quite sure what you’re supposed to be doing.” -John Cleese
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“One, if you attack my integrity, I will defend myself. If you attack my patriotism, I will defend myself. If you come after my family, I will counter-attack viciously, I will destroy you.” -Scott Ritter
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“But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings – then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.” -George Cadbury
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“A home is crucial, the foundation of a stable family.” -Eric Cantona
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“I’m a strong person, I’m a strong family man, I’m a strong husband and a strong father.” -David Beckham
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“In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn’t have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.” -Billy Corgan
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“At a family’s most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one’s sacrifice and service.” -Dave Reichert
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“If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.” -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters.”…
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“I need my family to remind me in a loving and nice way to lighten up.” -Debra Winger
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“Family comes first. You’re the only thing they have.” -Heidi Klum
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“My family’s lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.” -Shia LaBeouf
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“America’s a family. We all yell at each other. It all works out.” -Louis C. K.
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“A lot of what I’m obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.” -Martin Scorsese
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“My parents were drawn to the idea that there was space and opportunity in Australia. For the meagre sum of £10, you could sail your entire family out to Australia, so that’s what my father chose to do.” -Hugh Jackman
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“I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.” -Miley Cyrus
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“My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don’t need the money, but there’s an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There’s a love there we’re a band of brothers.” -Stevie Nicks
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“I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars – BMW’s mostly – for myself and my family.” -Tom Felton
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“It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.” -Daniel Day-Lewis
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“I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.” -Trevor Dunn
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“I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family.” -Sanford I. Weill
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“The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.” -Charles Baudelaire
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“Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.” -T. E. Lawrence
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“I don’t think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It’s perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.” -Toni Morrison
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“I want to be a young dad. By 25 or 26 I want to see myself, like, married or start looking for a family.” -Justin Bieber
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“I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.” -LeBron James
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“Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.” -Gertrude Stein
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“I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn’t call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.” -Alan Dershowitz
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“The greenest home is the one you don’t build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with another family and share a house that’s already built. Better yet, live in the forest and eat whatever the squirrels don’t want.” -Scott Adams
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“I’m a teenager, but I’m independent – I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.” -Adriana Lima
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“It’s hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.” -Patricia Heaton
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“When you look at Prince Charles, don’t you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?” -Robin Williams
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“When you live on the road, going home is a place to escape and just be with your family to unwind.” -Jonathan Davis
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“I don’t see how the party that says it’s the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.” -Newt Gingrich
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“Going home and spending time with your family and your real friends keeps you grounded.” -Jennifer Ellison
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“A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.” -Susan Sontag
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“I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I’ve done it all and there’s a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again.” -Cat Stevens
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“We must not allow the liberals to move us away from the conservative values of the American past which sustain our present and shall secure our future. As for me and my family, we will serve God, we will serve this constitutional republic, we will serve America.” -Allen West
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“And so I look at it as a relationship that I have with him that I want to give him the honor and glory anytime I have the opportunity. And then right after I give him the honor and glory, I always try to give my teammates the honor and glory. And that’s how it…
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“Over the last couple of years, I’ve really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so…
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“Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.” -Henri Frederic Amiel
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“In five years’ time I’d like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I’d like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I’d like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is…
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“I’m thankful to my family, friends, and fans for all of their support.” -Serena Williams
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“It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics , to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family – and not shuffling it off on other people and the state.” -John Major
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“I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That’s what happiness is.” -Michael J. Fox
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“The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.” -Gustave Flaubert
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“When I do get the chance I just love to hang around at home with friends and family.” -Delta Goodrem
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“Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.” -Daisaku Ikeda
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“A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.” -Walter Bagehot
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“One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That’s the way we live.” -Nik Wallenda
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“Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.” -John Boehner
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“The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.” -Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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“Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.” -Michelle Obama
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“I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.” -Lady Gaga
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“But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!” -Stephen Covey
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“Leave the President’s family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.” -Donald Rumsfeld
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“Everybody has basically the same family, it’s just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.” -Doug Coupland
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“I’m healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me.” -Ted Nugent
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“And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don’t think anyone in my family would really feel I’d done them an injustice by saying that. We didn’t see many people. There were many books. It was…
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“Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.” -Billy Joel
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“My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.” -Vivien Leigh
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“There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.” -Anwar Sadat
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“My kids say if there’s any family dinner that doesn’t result in somebody crying, it’s not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It’s like a family tradition.” -William Shatner
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“Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that’s their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.” -Mario Andretti
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“I realised how paranoid and guarded and not trusting – walled-in – I had become. Not consciously so, but just this armour that I kind of have, protective armour. It’s not for my friends or family, but for being.outside in the world, always on guard.” -Jennifer Aniston
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“I’ve made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.” -Paris Hilton
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“In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.” -Tom Vilsack
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“It all starts with the script: it’s not worth taking myself away from my family if I don’t have something I’m really passionate about.” -Steven Spielberg
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“Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there’s always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.” -Marcelene Cox
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“The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn’t let them into the family brokerage business.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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“There’s a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I’m affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn’t want to leave. He likes it very much.” -David Bowie
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“I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn’t be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.” -Mos Def
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“I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it’s my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family.” -Elena Anaya
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“Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!” -O. Henry
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“I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist – although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.” -Isabel Allende
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“I am healthy, my family is healthy. That is the important thing. After that we go racing.” -Mark Webber
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“In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.” -Desmond Tutu
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“Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.” -Joseph Joubert
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“Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
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“I know some people say it’s not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it’s always worked so well for me.” -Kim Kardashian
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“Since I’m always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.” -Chris Brown
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“People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who’s right here too.” -Jim Valvano
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“When we’re dealing with the people in our family – no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs – we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.” -Anne Lamott
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“The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn’t have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you…
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“The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.” -Jeff Cooper
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“Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.” -Ulysses S. Grant
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“We are special because we’ve been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We’re bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.” -Marco Rubio
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“A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.” -Ogden Nash
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“I think illness is a family journey, no matter what the outcome. Everybody has to be allowed to process it and mourn and deal with it in their own way.” -Marcia Wallace
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“Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers.” -Les Brown
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“One of the greatest things drama can do, at it’s best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.” -Ben Kingsley
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“My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education.” -Ronnie James Dio
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“I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.” -Harry Houdini
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“In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient’s condition. Usually this is a member of the family.” -Alfred Adler
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“I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.” -Richard Branson
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“A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.” -Joseph Smith, Jr.
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“And I keep saying, whether you like the president or not, everybody has to pull together and help the president because, as the president goes, so goes the country, as the country goes, so goes your job, your ability to feed your family, your government.” -Michael Bloomberg
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“Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you’re burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. This is one of those times.” -Amy Grant
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“The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.” -Max Muller
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“I would prefer to have no money but to have a nice family and good friends around.” -Li Na
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“I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.” -Dolly Parton
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“The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can’t so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?” -Terry Pratchett
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“Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.” -Alice Walker
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“I’ve been so fortunate in my life that my family has never been jealous of my success. They have shown true love and commitment to me by being supportive. They shared in it.” -Mike Krzyzewski
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“Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin’ to borrow money. I’ve always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.” -Richard Pryor
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“There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.” -Gerald R. Ford
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“Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, ’cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you’re always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.” -Dan Savage
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“As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.” -Frances Conroy
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“The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God’s family. That individual is set apart as a child of God, with a sacred purpose.” -Charles Stanley
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“Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.” -Harry Browne
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“The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing second, the gratification of one’s family and friends and lastly, the solid cash.” -Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“I don’t have to look up my family tree, because I know that I’m the sap.” -Fred Allen
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“We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don’t deserve it. It doesn’t matter if they’re family or if you’ve known them forever. If they’re not good for you, they’ve got to go.” -Gabrielle Union
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“If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don’t think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.” -Edwin Land
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“In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.” -Marlo Thomas
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“I had this child, and it destroyed my family.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger
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“My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you’re fortunate – and both of us are – you come from the kidding kind of Irish family.” -P. J. O’Rourke
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“My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church materials that were created on our own personal time.” -Robert H. Schuller
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“A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.” -James H. Douglas
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“My work and my family are very important to me.” -Stephen Hawking
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“My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.” -Jim Carrey
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“Probably the worst time in a person’s life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it’s been a pretty good day.” -Emo Philips
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“If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along – whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.” -Bernard Meltzer
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“The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another’s defects, and the bearing of one another’s burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.” -Lawrence G. Lovasik
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“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.” -Calvin Trillin
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“Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They’re keeping up with their friends and family, but they’re also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They’re connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It’s almost a disadvantage if you’re not on it now.”…
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“Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.” -Pope John XXIII
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“People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don’t get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don’t start a family before you’re ready to settle down.” -James Taylor
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“There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“In my family, we were Americans, we were Republicans and we were Methodists.” -Hillary Clinton
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“All in the Family was intellectual it was art.” -Carroll O’Connor
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“I think every girl needs to love herself, regardless of anything. Like if you’re having a bad day, if you don’t like your hair, if you don’t have the best family situation, whatever, you have to love yourself and you can’t do anything until you love yourself first.” -Julianne Hough
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“Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described – and will be, after our deaths – by each of the family members who believe they know us.” -Gloria Steinem
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“No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.” -J. Edgar Hoover
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“The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.” -Samuel Butler
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“Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It’s either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it’s Colin.” -Tim Vine
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“If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.” -Temple Grandin
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“I am blessed to have so many great things in my life – family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.” -Lil’ Kim
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“My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn’t there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said…
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“President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. My promise… is to help you and your family.” -Mitt Romney
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“I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.” -Patrick Henry
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“If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.” -Al Goldstein
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“When someone has cancer, the whole family and everyone who loves them does, too.” -Terri Clark
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“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.” -Kofi Annan
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“Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.” -Margaret Mead
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“Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.” -W. C. Fields
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“I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.” -Angelina Jolie
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“The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.” -Bertrand Russell
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“A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.” -George Orwell
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“Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.” -Joseph Brodsky
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“The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.” -Margaret Sanger
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“Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.” -Erma Bombeck
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“Family is conflict and it’s something that we all relate to.” -Bill Cosby
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“So live that you wouldn’t be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.” -Will Rogers
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