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Family Quotes
"My dad and mom did what a lot of parents did at the time. They sacrificed a lot of their life and used a lot of their disposable income to make sure their children were educated."
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"The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have."
92
"For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child."
91
"And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer."
91
"The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background."
89
"Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement."
83
"Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end."
80
"Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer."
79
"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me."
78
"A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares."
77
"I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years."
76
"To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there."
72
"I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister."
72
"In a pocket of his knapsack he'd found a last half packet of cocoa and he fixed it for the boy and then poured his own cup with hot water and sat blowing at the rim.You promised not to do that, the boy said.What?You know what, Papa.He poured the hot water back into the pan and took the boy's cup and poured some of the cocoa into his own and then handed it back.I have to watch you all the time, the boy said."
72
"They stayed by my side the whole time - my teammates, family and all the fans."
71
"We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together."
69
"It was an idea we had when Al was in the Senate - to organize and moderate an annual conference that would look at government policy through the lens of the family to help identify ways that the family can be supported and strengthened."
67
"I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap."
65
"All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother."
65
"She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since old Tom and the children could not know hurt or fear unless she acknowledged hurt or fear, she had practiced denying them in herself. And since, when a joyful thing happened, they looked to see whether joy was on her, it was her habit to build laughter out of inadequate materials....She seemed to know that if she swayed the family shook, and if she ever deeply wavered or despaired the family would fall."
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"I know I'm a Third, I know it, if you want I'll go away so you don't have to be embarrassed in front of everybody, I'm sorry I lost the monitor and now you have three kids and no obvious explanation, so inconvenient for you, I'm sorry sorry sorry."
64
"We would be there for Canada, part of our family. That is why so many in the United States are disappointed and upset that Canada is not fully supporting us now."
63
"My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it."
63
"If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much."
62
"The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things."
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