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Family Quotes
"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was."
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"On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been."
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"My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother."
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"I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married."
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"When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence."
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"If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry."
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"In this new century, our commitment to family and to faith, to community and opportunity, to freedom and to hope, will be the light that shines to lead us forward."
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"It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads."
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"I would have liked it to have stayed serious and have the adventures of a family lost in space. This isn't to take anything away from Jonathan and the Robot. I watch his performance today and he still makes me laugh."
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"Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them."
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"To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off."
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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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"Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family."
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"We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional but we're still family."
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"My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson Administrations. He knew a lot about and was fond of the Army."
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"Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children."
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"One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family."
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"Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do."
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"This legislation gives parents some comfort that their children won't fall prey to child predators while using the Internet at schools and libraries that receive federal dollars for Internet services."
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"My family lives there, so I come back sometimes between shows for a couple days. I get back a couple times a year. When I was 30 to 34 I was weirded out when I came back - you know, how your past gets away from you. It's grown so much."
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"And since I just turned 32, I'm thinking about getting married, having a family, and that's very difficult to do on the road as a correspondent."
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"Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well."
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"I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents."
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"The kids like to get pictures of me for their parents. They know how proud I am of them-they have a lot more to worry about than my stardom. They are trying to make good choices for their own lives, but this gives them a little fun. They are part of my family."
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"Tammy Faye, I pray for every day. I really liked her. I wanted to be in their family."
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"Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder."
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"I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy."
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"I grew up in a family where our mother made our clothing. We didn't have a lot of money, so we learned how to scrimp, and we learned how to invent and to create. And those are learned skills."
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"My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college."
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"Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world."
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