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Family Quotes
"He's a TV producer, a theatrical impresario, and he wants to be treated as Mr. Windsor but when the going gets rough he wants to be treated like a member of the Royal Family."
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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."
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"My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother."
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"Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not troubled herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask."
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"I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents."
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"As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death."
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"Family's the luck of the draw, Lena. What you make of yourself, because of or despite it, that's where the spine and heart come in."
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"Being a single mother should not stop you from helping your children to reach their full potential."
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"If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned - but you don't really have the words to express your concern. There's only this continued absence."
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"In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter."
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"She was my mother and she would not leave me. This I had simply accepted and expected. I had no more thanked her for it than i did the sun for shining on me."
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"My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks."
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"When one has not had a good father, one must create one."
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"However, when my parents married in 1945, China was in turmoil and the possibility of returning grew increasingly remote, and they decided to begin their family in the United States."
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"The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family."
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"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence."
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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."
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"The hardest part is to travel, and to be away from your family."
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"In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store."
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"My family lives there, so I come back sometimes between shows for a couple days. I get back a couple times a year. When I was 30 to 34 I was weirded out when I came back - you know, how your past gets away from you. It's grown so much."
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"I felt they had really moved the characters in a direction that was very interesting. The family had really felt the impact of what had happened to the."
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"Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone."
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"I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy."
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"Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next."
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"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."
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"We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?"
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"The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless is mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection."
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"Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no."
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"Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table."
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