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Family Quotes
"If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much."
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"When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came."
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"We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children."
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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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"I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity."
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"Most mothers are instinctive philosophers."
60
"I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is."
59
"The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats."
59
"Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention."
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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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"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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"We've had our ups and downs since then, but that's what families have, ups and downs."
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"Parents had some kind of sin radar, Claire thought. They always called when you were in the middle of something you just knew they'd consider wrong. Or at least risky."
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"The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone."
58
"A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son."
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"We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire."
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"I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage."
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"When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway."
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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."
57
"I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income."
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"I do know the Spelling family. I worked for Aaron Spelling when I was a brunette. I've known them since Tori was a little girl."
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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."
57
"If the massive invasion is not stopped, we are going to be flooded to the extent that we will drift into third world status. For our children and for our grandchildren, we cannot fail on this issue."
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"My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys."
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"I believed in raising my children as I had been raised."
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