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Family Quotes

"Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family."

"Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family."

Randy West, American Entertainer

Family, Day, Sense

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"Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes."

"Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes."

Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish Novelist

Family, Mother, Goal, Diligence, Fortune

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"Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language."

"Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language."

Camryn Manheim, American Actress

Family, College, Language, Parents

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"Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten."

"Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten."

Conrad Hall, American Artist

Family, Dad, Will

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"It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children."

"It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children."

James Earl Jones, American Actor

Family, Society, People, Children

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"Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land."

"Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land."

Moshe Katsav, Israeli Statesman

Family, History, Land, Years

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"I've never been one to say that Britain was joining a happy band of brothers."

"I've never been one to say that Britain was joining a happy band of brothers."

James Callaghan, English Leader

Family, Brothers

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"I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs."

"I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs."

Jim Clyburn, American Politician

Family, Mother, Needs, Problems, Public

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"Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right."

"Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right."

Wade Boggs, American Athlete

Family, Dad, Father, Play, Right

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"So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused."

"So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused."

Anna Louise Strong, American Journalist

Family, Brother, Chance, World

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"I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life."

"I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life."

Barbara Bush, American First Lady

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"Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children."

"Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children."

Leon Kass, American Educator

Family, Children, Parenthood, Parents, Right

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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."

"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, Jamaican Musician

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"My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed."

"My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed."

Bill Toomey, American Athlete

Family, Right, World

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"College on for sure... I'm scared to say it cause it sounds like a family movie, but if my kid was 7, 8, 9 I would take her to this quickly and gladly!"

"College on for sure... I'm scared to say it cause it sounds like a family movie, but if my kid was 7, 8, 9 I would take her to this quickly and gladly!"

Rob Morrow, American Actor

Family, Cause, College

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"This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue."

"This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue."

Tahar Ben Jelloun, French Poet

Family, Mother, Tongue, Universe, Words

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"I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year."

"I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year."

Anna Chlumsky, American Actress

Family, Life, Home, Movies

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"Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries."

"Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries."

Carol Ann Duffy, British Poet

Family, Children, Theatre

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"Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space."

"Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space."

John McGahern, Irish Writer

Family, Society, Women, Idea

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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."

"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, American Judge

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"My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry."

"My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry."

Bill Bryson, American Writer

Family, Children, First

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"Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle."

"Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle."

Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss Philosopher

Family, Destiny, Destruction, Salvation

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"Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children."

"Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children."

Susan George, American Activist

Family, Children, Saying

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"I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view."

"I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view."

Walter Kohn, Austrian Physicist

Family, War, Class, End

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"Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children."

"Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

Family, Children

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"Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold."

"Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold."

Andre Maurois, French Writer

Family, Man, World

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"Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion."

"Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion."

Terence, Roman Writer

Family, Children, Persuasion, Right

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"The Wilmington, Delaware, television station that bills itself as The Family Minded Station is Channel 69."

"The Wilmington, Delaware, television station that bills itself as The Family Minded Station is Channel 69."

Jonathan Carroll, American Author

Family, Television

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"Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families."

"Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families."

Keith Henson, American Scientist

Family, Lie, Children, Language

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"The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First."

"The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First."

John Sergeant Wise, American Author

Family, Son, People, First

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"Your father, Jo. He never loses patience,--never doubts or complains,--but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully, that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him. He helped and comforted me, and showed me that I must try to practise all the virtues I would have my little girls possess, for I was their example. It was easier for your sakes than for my own; a startled or surprised look from one of you, when I spoke sharply, rebuked me more than any words could have done; and the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy."

"Your father, Jo. He never loses patience,--never doubts or complains,--but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully, that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him. He helped and comforted me, and showed me that I must try to practise all the virtues I would have my little girls possess, for I was their example. It was easier for your sakes than for my own; a startled or surprised look from one of you, when I spoke sharply, rebuked me more than any words could have done; and the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy."

Louisa May Alcott, American Novelist

Family, Virtue, Patience, Parenting, Example

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"Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium."

"Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium."

Paul Tsongas, American Politician

Family, Children, Commitment, Environment, Journey

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"There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line."

"There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Family, Children, Luck, World

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"I've experienced first-hand the wonderful work organizations like J Bar J do for young people in Central Oregon and I am encouraged that the federal government is taking an active role in the Cascade Youth and Family Center."

"I've experienced first-hand the wonderful work organizations like J Bar J do for young people in Central Oregon and I am encouraged that the federal government is taking an active role in the Cascade Youth and Family Center."

Greg Walden, American Politician

Family, Government, Work, People

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"Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?"

"Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?"

Emma Goldman, Lithuanian Activist

Family, Mother, Morality, Motherhood

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"When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices."

"When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Family, Flaws, Endurance, Love

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"Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them."

"Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them."

Angela Carter, English Novelist

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"My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family."

"My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family."

Philip Levine, American Poet

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"Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is."

"Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is."

Brad Paisley, American Musician

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"I wanted some family structure and stability, and that's what The Partridge Family afforded me, not only financially but in the fact that I could be at home with my kids."

"I wanted some family structure and stability, and that's what The Partridge Family afforded me, not only financially but in the fact that I could be at home with my kids."

Shirley Jones, American Actress

Family, Home, Fact, Kids

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"You know, my dad served in the President's Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now, I understand why. If I do my job well, I can make a difference in people's lives and I can help our children realize their dreams."

"You know, my dad served in the President's Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now, I understand why. If I do my job well, I can make a difference in people's lives and I can help our children realize their dreams."

Mitt Romney, American Politician

Family, Dad, Dreams, Time, People

45

"Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it."

"Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it."

Russell Baker, American Journalist

Family, Children, May

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"I love playing a dad. It's hard to find family dramas that are genuinely funny."

"I love playing a dad. It's hard to find family dramas that are genuinely funny."

Peter Gallagher, American Actor

Family, Funny, Love, Dad

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"Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family."

"Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family."

Jerry B. Jenkins, American Novelist

Family, Heartbreak, Relationships

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"For me, football always meant that we came together as a family and, in the summer we played football outside."

"For me, football always meant that we came together as a family and, in the summer we played football outside."

Claudia Schiffer, German Model

Family, Football, Summer

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"And, quite frankly, I fully expected to be charged with murder, because they weren't charging anybody. I did it in terms of, I felt like I was throwing down the gauntlet saying look, this is what happened. There's a family out there that needed to know what happened."

"And, quite frankly, I fully expected to be charged with murder, because they weren't charging anybody. I did it in terms of, I felt like I was throwing down the gauntlet saying look, this is what happened. There's a family out there that needed to know what happened."

Patty Hearst, American Celebrity

Family, Murder, Saying

45

"My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska."

"My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska."

Kate Millett, American Activist

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"It also called upon traditional people in the Four Directions to strengthen the healing ceremonies and asked people to heed the warnings of Mother Earth."

"It also called upon traditional people in the Four Directions to strengthen the healing ceremonies and asked people to heed the warnings of Mother Earth."

Dennis Banks, American Educator

Family, Mother, People, Earth, Healing

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"The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s."

"The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s."

Andy Goldsworthy, British Artist

Family, Mother, Deep, First

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"Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family."

"Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family."

Kin Hubbard, American Journalist

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