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Family Quotes
"Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family."
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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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"Working long hours being single helps because your time is yours. Once you have a family your time isn't all yours anymore. Most of the Mac team, we were in our mid-20's, most of us were single, and we were able to essentially devote our lives to it."
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"We're an ideal political family, as accessible as Disneyland."
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"It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it."
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"In Fargo, they say, well, that's a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was written about in Entertainment Weekly, and it was kind of cool because my mom asked me if Entertainment Weekly was a magazine or a newspaper."
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"Even the simplest wicker basket can become priceless when it is loved and cared for through the generations of a family."
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"Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process."
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"Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone."
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"Through the years you, the Delaware State family and your predecessors, have faced many challenges. You worked through them with fierce determination and good will, and you have made great progress."
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"Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is."
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"To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father."
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"I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me."
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"In Europe the parents are included as with children. All three generations are together. I'm thinking of Italy. You go out on a Sunday afternoon and the whole family is there."
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"There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together."
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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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"On the day I was born, or possibly on one of the following days, my father went on a walk in the forested hills and thought of a name for me. His first son was called Daniel, and Samuel in memory of one of his forefathers."
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"I believe in energy like dark energies. I believe that when a family moves into a house where six murders took place, there's going to be some bad juju in that house. But then again what the hell is wrong with you to be moving in that house to begin with?"
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"The family exists in order to allow women to have children and to have the protection of a male who takes care of them."
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"Neither of my parents would ever stand in the way of any of their children speaking their minds."
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"It's not about me, it's about my family. You don't answer questions for you, but for us. You learn to live beyond yourself."
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"Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous."
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"Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after, I don't think having a famous father affected him much."
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"As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless."
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"One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad."
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"The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality."
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