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Family Quotes
"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."
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"Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man."
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"If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much."
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"The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it."
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"Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities."
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"It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself."
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"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."
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"Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now."
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"If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food."
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"I don't want to make that sound like I'm preaching from a mountain top when I say you have to give your family everything, because I know it's hard for people. I'm lucky to be in a position where you can establish those ground rules and make it that way."
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"The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background."
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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."
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"Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be."
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"Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy."
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"The majority of information I gave police was about my wife and her family, which is what they wanted."
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"It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential."
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"We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together."
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"Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your head."
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"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."
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"I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns."
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"True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it."
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"The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst."
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"Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children."
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