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Family Quotes
"I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind."
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"Happy Days was about a family... although the show was shot in the 70s, it was about a family in the 50s. I realized that kids were watching their parents grow up and the parents were watching themselves grow up. That was the key to the success of our show."
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"The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them."
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"I'm social and I meet people and talk to people but I'm not looking for the ideal person to fit my mold and to raise my family with yet. I'm just kind of doing my thing and learning from the people I'm around and who I cross paths with."
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"I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren."
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"I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week."
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"The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family farm in Kentucky has centered around one crop: tobacco."
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"I am convinced that this approach, a mainstream Democratic approach, commands the strong support of the American people, and presents a sharp and compassionate contrast to the Republican abortion position which offers no real hope or commitment to mother or child."
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"When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults."
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"There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life."
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"Most of you will marry and have children. They will become the source of your greatest pride and happiness. I hope so. Rear them in love. You don't have to kick them around. You don't have to get angry with them. You just have to love them. If they make mistakes, forgive them and help them to avoid a repetition. But let them see in you their truest and best friend, their constant support."
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"Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family."
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"I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it."
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"Today the family is being attacked and defended with equal vehemence."
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"Reeve shakes his head and exhales loudly. 'That's not what I'm saying and you know it! He looks away. 'Can you just . . . can you go get dressed and come with me and we'll talk about it later? My mom's expecting you."
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"Brother Jones is not my product, and I am not responsible for anything he writes or says."
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"The "I love you"s are exchanged excessively under our roof. Cancer teaches you how important and critical that is."
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"For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months before she died I sent a Mother's Day card. There was a horrible, mushy poem in it. I remember feeling "vaguely guilty."
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"I don't think I would have been able to stick with it and been proud of who I am and be feminine out on the court. I think I would have folded to the peer pressure if I didn't have my mom to encourage me to be me and be proud of how tall I am."
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"You cannot commit the folly of underestimating the power of a mother."
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"If you are born into a family below the national median income, we provide you with an additional $500, and for every contribution made to a child's account below the national median income, we match it dollar for dollar - the federal government will."
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"In our Nation, approximately 22.5 million children ride school buses to and from school each day, which accounts for 54 percent of all students attending grade school."
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"I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area."
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"My own family and thousands of other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. It took our nation over 40 years to apologize."
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"Mother's ways are higher than others, even when everyone rejects, mother accepts with her arms open and wide."
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"It is true that you can't choose your family, but you can choose your friends. It is also true that you can choose your partner and in doing so, you end up choosing the family you've always wanted."
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"Her friends say she is very funny. At a family dinner, she stood to go, and the footman very properly pulled her chair away. At that moment I asked her a question and she sat down again, except there was no chair. Everyone, including the Queen, laughed and laughed."
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