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Family Quotes
"Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family."
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"But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors."
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"In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along."
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"All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother."
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"The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book."
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"When you're interviewing someone, even your mother - you have to sort of deal with you have to get some objective space from yourself and the person but you also have to find what's the best way to get the information from that person."
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"You know, my dad served in the President's Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now, I understand why. If I do my job well, I can make a difference in people's lives and I can help our children realize their dreams."
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"To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there."
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"There's actually 14 in our family, but we disowned the others."
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"I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults."
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"I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap."
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"I have no political ambitions for myself or my children."
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"Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people."
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"My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house."
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"We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically."
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"I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father."
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"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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"The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."
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"On the other hand, I think that the family, the traditional family, has a fundamental social role, because it's there that children are born and the investment in children is the greatest investment a country can make. The benefits of this investment go to everyone."
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"I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They'd never seen anything like it."
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"No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family."
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"It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden."
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"There are very few solid family films. A lot of the writing is awful."
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"Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family."
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"Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister."
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"I didn't tell anybody about my plan because I was convinced my family or friends would stop me. I didn't think much about what would happen afterwards."
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"I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that."
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"My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it."
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"Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family."
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"Not only did God deliver me from the bondage of alcoholism, he also blessed my family financially because of my commitment to honor what he had done for me and for not doing what I believed could possibly be destructive to others."
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"I want children, but at the moment the liberty I have now finally, has a far too high value."
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"It was an idea we had when Al was in the Senate - to organize and moderate an annual conference that would look at government policy through the lens of the family to help identify ways that the family can be supported and strengthened."
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"She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since old Tom and the children could not know hurt or fear unless she acknowledged hurt or fear, she had practiced denying them in herself. And since, when a joyful thing happened, they looked to see whether joy was on her, it was her habit to build laughter out of inadequate materials....She seemed to know that if she swayed the family shook, and if she ever deeply wavered or despaired the family would fall."
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"My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks."
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