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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“Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.” -Gracie Allen
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“We believed in our idea – a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.” -Walt Disney
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“Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.” -Charles Alexander Eastman
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“Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.” -Pope John Paul II
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“I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.” -Rodney Dangerfield
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“As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.” -Chanakya
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“I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we’re a show business family and we all work.” -Michael Jackson
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“My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.” -Joel Osteen
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“I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn’t really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up.” -Johnny Depp
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“The most important thing in the world is family and love.” -John Wooden
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“A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian… and most of all, his family ought to know.” -Dwight L. Moody
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“Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family – and God’s love – this world would be a far more gentle and better place.” -Mitt…
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“To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.” -Pope John Paul II
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“The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.” -Eminem
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“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.” -Haniel Long
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“I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family – and I don’t think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.” -Frank Sinatra
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“Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.” -Willard Scott
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“My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what’s keeping…
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“The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.” -Bill Cosby
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“If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.” -Douglas Adams
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“On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.” -Bobby Jindal
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“Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.” -Oliver Hudson
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“I am confident that nobody… will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.” -Nelson Mandela
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“I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.” -Rodney Dangerfield
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“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” -Leo Tolstoy
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“No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?” -Lee Iacocca
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“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” -George Burns
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“It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.” -Philip Green
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“Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that’s not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.” -Joe Manchin
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“Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible – the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.” -Virginia Satir
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“Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.” -Oscar Wilde
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“Actors are one family over the entire world.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn’t listening.” -Emma Thompson
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“When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‘Why god? Why me?’ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‘There’s just something about you that pisses me off.’” -Stephen King
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“The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.” -George Carlin
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“All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“It’s true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you’ll find you’ve created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.” -Caroline Kennedy
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“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” -Richard Bach
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“Family, nature and health all go together.” -Olivia Newton-John
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“There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.” -Shirley Knight
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“Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.” -Chevy Chase
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“I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu’ran easily at the age of five.” -Akhmad Kadyrov
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“The foundation of family – that’s where it all begins for me.” -Faith Hill
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“I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.” -Joseph Stiglitz
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“I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.” -Nastassja Kinski
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“My family background was deeply Christian.” -Abbe Pierre
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“Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.” -Agnes Smedley
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“The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.” -Ron Reagan
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“We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.” -Darius Rucker
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“Our family life was certainly not intellectual.” -Douglass North
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“My whole damn family was nice. I don’t think I’ve imagined it. It’s true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church.” -Henry Fonda
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“God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.” -Frank Knox
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“As a child my family’s menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.” -Buddy Hackett
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“Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.” -Earl Nightingale
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“In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.” -Lao Tzu
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“When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.” -Alex Haley
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“Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.” -Bernice Weissbourd
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“I would love a family. I’m at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.” -Cameron Diaz
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“I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters – I’m from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!” -Shirley Manson
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“At a certain point I’m going to want to have a family.” -Gwen Stefani
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“For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help.” -Paula Abdul
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“I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.” -Anthony Anderson
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“The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music.” -Dennis Wilson
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“My family was my guide to my reality.” -Haywood Nelson
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“We’ll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we’ll have to start thinking about that.” -Prince William
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“I love children and I get along with them great. It’s just that I believe if you’re going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, ‘I want a family.’ I don’t feel that sense of urgency.” -George Clooney
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“I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.” -Al Roker
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“Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected.” -Christina Milian
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“I live quietly at home among my family and friends.” -Antonio Tabucchi
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“I don’t know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.” -Penelope Cruz
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“The most difficult is the first family, to bring someone out of the world.” -Richard G. Scott
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“When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.” -John Cheever
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“If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.” -David McCallum
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“When I’m ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.” -LaToya Jackson
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“I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.” -Jessica Lange
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“The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.” -Christopher Lasch
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“I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.” -Amos Oz
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“Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.” -Christopher Love
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“If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.” -Michael Enzi
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“Women’s natural role is to be a pillar of the family.” -Grace Kelly
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“Some of the most important conversations I’ve ever had occurred at my family’s dinner table.” -Bob Ehrlich
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“It’s not that our family has no taste, it’s just that our family’s taste is inconsistent.” -Dave Eggers
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“A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there’s a secure family atmosphere.” -Mel Gibson
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“I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.” -Alexa Vega
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“A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family.” -Kathleen Turner
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“I’m not much of a family man. I’m just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don’t want to live my life for them.” -Sting
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“My family is more important than my party.” -Zell Miller
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“I am the family face flesh perishes, I live on.” -Thomas Hardy
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“I would rather start a family than finish one.” -Don Marquis
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“You have to defend your honor. And your family.” -Suzanne Vega
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“Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.” -Charles Dudley Warner
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“I have a family to support. And I’m not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.” -Patrick Warburton
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“The family is the nucleus of civilization.” -Will Durant
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“I’ve always put my family first and that’s just the way it is.” -Jamie Lee Curtis
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“I don’t think anyone has a normal family.” -Edward Furlong
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“I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.” -Patty Duke
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“There’s nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.” -Willie Stargell
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“My kids give me the balance to live right.” -Celine Dion
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“There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.” -Jerry Seinfeld
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“Tennis just a game, family is forever.” -Serena Williams
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“I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.” -Marie Curie
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“I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.” -Jet Li
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“When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He’s the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.” -Paris Hilton
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“I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.” -Heidi Klum
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“My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn’t seem to add up to very much.” -Gwyneth Paltrow
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“It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.” -Gertrude Stein
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“It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.” -Elizabeth Edwards
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“Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.” -Margaret Drabble
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“A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss… That’s the trade-off. But I’ll take it all.” -Brad Pitt
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“You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.” -Anita Baker
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“I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.” -Adam…
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“What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?” -Princess Diana
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“It’s very strange that most people don’t care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.” -Doug Coupland
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“Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.” -John Ruskin
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“Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.” -George Eliot
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“First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.” -Angelina Jolie
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“One’s family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I’ll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who’ll be with me will be my family.” -Robert Byrd
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“Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.” -Vartan Gregorian
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“My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, ‘You’re tearing up the grass’ ‘We’re not raising grass,’ Dad would reply. ‘We’re raising boys.’” -Harmon Killebrew
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“The family is the first essential cell of human society.” -Pope John XXIII
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“One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.” -Ralph Fiennes
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“The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.” -Jerry Falwell
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“Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.” -Elizabeth Fishel
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“The family you come from isn’t as important as the family you’re going to have.” -Ring Lardner
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“I’ve given it my all. I’ve done my best. Now, I’m ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.” -Richard M. Daley
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“I am the baby in the family, and I always will be. I am actually very happy to have that position. But I still get teased. I don’t mind that.” -Janet Jackson
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“As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.” -Josh Billings
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“My family comes first. Maybe that’s what makes me different from other guys.” -Bobby Darin
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“If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.” -Francis of Assisi
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“Spend some time this weekend on home improvement improve your attitude toward your family.” -Bo Bennett
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“I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values – the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one’s children.” -Ednita Nazario
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“Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.” -Andre Maurois
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“All of us grow up in particular realities – a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we’re brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.” -Chaim Potok
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“Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.” -Charlie Sheen
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“The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” -George Santayana
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“My family is my strength and my weakness.” -Aishwarya Rai
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“I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.” -Maureen O’Hara
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“I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.” -Jodi Picoult
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“A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.” -Charles R. Swindoll
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“Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they’re eating sandwiches.” -Jim Carrey
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“If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one’s friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.” -Jasmine Guy
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“The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I’m thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family’s future.” -Jackie Kennedy
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“When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you.” -Guy Lafleur
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“If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.” -Abdul Kalam
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“Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.” -David Ogden Stiers
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“The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.” -Charles Kuralt
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“Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.” -Margaret Mead
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“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” -Michael J. Fox
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“A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.” -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.” -Tom DeLay
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“A man should never neglect his family for business.” -Walt Disney
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“The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.” -Robert Frost
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“He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.” -Chanakya
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“Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.” -Cary Grant
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“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” -Desmond Tutu
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