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Family Quotes


"And maybe that's being the third child, although my entire family are very resilient - very, very resilient."


"I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here."


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


"I didn't want to travel. I didn't want to leave my family. I heard all these stories from Dad about not having Edward around when he was young, and I didn't want that to happen."


"All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them."


"When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition."



"I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe."


"I got a nomination for director, which means the world to me; it's just the most exciting thing for me and my family. You do the good hard work, and the rest of it is something you shouldn't get too caught up in, but when it happens - boy! I respect it."


"I would argue that television and particularly the BBC were instrumental in puffing up the Royal Family to a level where they were inflated out of all, all proportion to their relevance on the national scene."



"I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school."


"My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild."


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



"My father felt that children should make their own way."


"The whole family is tight. We all really love each other."


"A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite."



"So I told Robert from the start that if we couldn't get Charles and Max to take part, but especially Charles, that I didn't want to make the film. So would he call his mother and talk to Charles and see if Charles would at all be interested."


"I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father."


"For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood."


"Our children are our greatest resource and Head Start grants help them reach their full potential."



"When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?"


"Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources."



"Do you enjoy holidays with your family? I don't mean your mom and dad family, but your uncle and aunt and cousin family? Personally, I do. There are several reasons for this. First, I am very interested and fascinated by how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other. Second, the fights are always the same."



"The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride."


"No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant."


"My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company."


"I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting."



"For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity."


"Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity."


"Fishing is much less about the fishing, and much more about the time alone with your kid, away from the hustle and bustle of the everyday."


"At a certain point I'm going to want to have a family."
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