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Family Quotes
"I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family."
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"Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm."
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"That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes."
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"There is no such thing as fun for the whole family."
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"It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding."
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"I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini."
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"America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home."
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"I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family."
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"It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother."
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"I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian."
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"It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!"
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"I originally had an idea about a family of people who were homeless, just traveling around without any solid roots or any home, who made their way around working wherever they could. I started it with them. The idea of Joe as a protagonist came along a little later."
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"I invest in funds myself even though I run my own fund for my daughters."
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"When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver."
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"The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States."
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"When I found out I got this job, I cried, of course - I'm a girly-girl - and then I called my dad, and he cried, too. On so many levels, this is a thrill for me."
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"Getting and keeping my immunity became very important to me. For I needed to take care of myself and my family. No one else was worried about me."
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"Seeing the family is a very important part of my weekend."
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"Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others."
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"Teaching civility is an obligation of the family."
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"In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school."
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"Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults."
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"I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear them. Then what I do is, not write about that kid or about his world, but start to think of a book that would have pleased him."
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"The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory."
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"Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved."
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"I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be."
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"I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation."
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"The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship."
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"Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family."
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