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Family Quotes


"What we don't talk about enough is Ohio's unique and remarkable quality of life. We are a state of cities, small towns and growing suburbs where life is affordable and destinations within reach. There is no better place to raise a family."


"In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store."


"I'm looking out for myself, but I'm looking out for my dad, too."


"I now have two kids of my own in college, so I know how important it is that we keep the dream alive for every family and I share the concern about rising tuition costs."


"I was in Yorkshire. We were a family of five and I used to be sent sometimes to get the rations for the week and I was easily able to carry them back. It was like one egg and a tiny bit of tea."


"The world's a small place and people are watching; and, you know, somebody disappears, the family knows and their colleagues know, and so eventually, these things do get out."



"My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance."


"I think that it's important if you run for President that you have to make those important decisions. And your father, if he can help, probably, he helps just by being your father without getting intimately involved."


"I don't know whether John Roberts has a twin, perhaps a sister or, uh, someone with a Hispanic last name."


"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."


"Germany is in terrible condition this year. This is particularly true of the working masses, who are so undernourished that tuberculosis is having a rich harvest, particularly of adolescent children."


"I needed to feed my family. I read a couple of the episodes. How can you keep on doing the same thing?"


"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."


"And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me."


"The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate."


"Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous."


"I used to date Latoya for awhile, I was a close freind of the family."


"We're going to be treated very poorly, I think that goes with the territory, and you have to get over it, get beyond it and know who you are among your peers and especially among your family when you look in the mirror."


"Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty, brought by your fathers from the venerable temples of Britain, to be quenched and trodden out on the simple altars they have raised?"


"I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me."


"Because of their low earnings and family obligations, Latinas would not be putting much money into private investment accounts. An average Latina could wind up losing thousands of dollars under this proposal."


"I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash."


"I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please."


"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."


"My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done."


"Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go."


"One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life."


"My family moved to Buffalo, New York in 1940 where I was raised."
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