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Family Quotes

"Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world."

"Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world."

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, American Businessman

Family, History, Corporate, World

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"My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you."

"My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you."

Nora Ephron, American Author

Family, Mother, Cooking

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"When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two days to sort the issue."

"When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two days to sort the issue."

Prince Andrew, British Royalty

Family, Mind, Question

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"And before our current legislature adjourns, we intend to become the first state of full and true choice by saying to every low and middle-income Hoosier family, if you think a non-government school is the right one for your child, you're as entitled to that option as any wealthy family; here's a voucher, go sign up."

"And before our current legislature adjourns, we intend to become the first state of full and true choice by saying to every low and middle-income Hoosier family, if you think a non-government school is the right one for your child, you're as entitled to that option as any wealthy family; here's a voucher, go sign up."

Mitch Daniels, American Politician

Family, Choice, First, Right

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"My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted."

"My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted."

Poppy Z. Brite, American Author

Family, Childhood, May

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"Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety."

"Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety."

Sandra Cisneros, American Author

Family, Childhood, Memory, Safety

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"It is much easier to become a father than to be one."

"It is much easier to become a father than to be one."

Kent Nerburn, American Author

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"Like father, like son, four years and this president is done."

"Like father, like son, four years and this president is done."

Dick Gephardt, American Politician

Family, Father, Son, President, Years

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"My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages."

"My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages."

Roger Bannister, British Athlete

Family, People, Stability, Years

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"By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else."

"By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else."

Tanya Tucker, American Musician

Family, Music, Time, Fans

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"The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded by one Spirit. We are all baptized into one Spirit so as to become, says the apostle, on body."

"The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded by one Spirit. We are all baptized into one Spirit so as to become, says the apostle, on body."

Charles Hodge, American Theologian

Family, Church, Body, Spirit

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"He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy."

"He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy."

Chanakya, Indian Politician

Family, Fear, Grief, Sorrow

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"And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali."

"And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali."

Wilt Chamberlain, American Athlete

Family, Father, Fight, Houston

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"My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people - all people - has been improved. I think less about myself and more about my community today."

"My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people - all people - has been improved. I think less about myself and more about my community today."

Andre Braugher, American Actor

Family, Life, People, Commitment

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"Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply."

"Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Family, Blood, Enjoyment, Connection

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"No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes."

"No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes."

Anna Neagle, English Actress

Family, Love, Friends, Needs

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"At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family."

"At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family."

Jack Bowman, English Actor

Family, Honor, Kentucky, Land

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"My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not."

"My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not."

Indira Gandhi, Indian Statesman

Family, Father, Woman

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"Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right."

"Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right."

Wade Boggs, American Athlete

Family, Dad, Father, Play, Right

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"My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up."

"My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up."

Emeril Lagasse, American Celebrity

Family, Growing up, Value

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"I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father."

"I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Family, Father, Hope, Children

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"I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found a family in their friends. It does give some depth and meaning to their lives."

"I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found a family in their friends. It does give some depth and meaning to their lives."

Randy Harrison, American Actor

Family, Community, Fact, Friends

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"A free race cannot be born of slave mothers."

"A free race cannot be born of slave mothers."

Margaret Sanger, American Activist

Family, Mothers, Race

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"Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion."

"Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion."

Oriana Fallaci, Italian Journalist

Family, Mother, Abortion, Pity

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"My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be."

"My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be."

Robert Mapplethorpe, American Photographer

Family, Father, Brother

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"And we had a DJ - my childhood friend from Chicago came to be the DJ at our party out in LA. It was a party, rockin' and rolling, and it was dancing and fun. For me it was different; just to have family with us."

"And we had a DJ - my childhood friend from Chicago came to be the DJ at our party out in LA. It was a party, rockin' and rolling, and it was dancing and fun. For me it was different; just to have family with us."

Jami Gertz, American Actress

Family, Friend, Chicago, Childhood

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"It is important that Congress works to promote home ownership in Indian Country. These federal housing funds and programs will help young Native American families to stay on tribal lands in order to live, work and raise a family."

"It is important that Congress works to promote home ownership in Indian Country. These federal housing funds and programs will help young Native American families to stay on tribal lands in order to live, work and raise a family."

Rick Renzi, American Politician

Family, Home, Work

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"The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career."

"The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Family, Career, Support, Purpose, Life

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"If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told them to do as Chairman Mao said. It was not possible to tell them anything else."

"If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told them to do as Chairman Mao said. It was not possible to tell them anything else."

Jung Chang, British Writer

Family, Children, Parents, Ruin

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"My family is my strength and my weakness."

"My family is my strength and my weakness."

Aishwarya Rai, Indian Actress

Family, Strength, Weakness

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"I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years."

"I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years."

Wilbur Wright, American Inventor

Family, Brother, Man, Years

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"Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because we're from North England."

"Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because we're from North England."

Tony Scott, British Director

Family, Day, England, Talk

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"I have the best roommates in the world! It creates a fun sense of family... and that's really important to me. Things can get so lonely without it."

"I have the best roommates in the world! It creates a fun sense of family... and that's really important to me. Things can get so lonely without it."

Kristen Bell, American Actress

Family, Fun, Lonely, Sense

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"When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied."

"When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied."

John Woolman, American Clergyman

Family, Men, Religion, Society

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"When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened."

"When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened."

Wally Lamb, American Author

Family, Brother, Baby, Sisters

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"It took so much of the tension out of me that my friends and family won't see me on this show."

"It took so much of the tension out of me that my friends and family won't see me on this show."

Jonathan Frid, Canadian Actor

Family, Friends, Tension

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"My family really does come first. It always did and always will."

"My family really does come first. It always did and always will."

Meryl Streep, American Actress

Family, First, Will

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"It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft."

"It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Family, Father, Man, Succeed

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"The park achieved a kind of reality. Like these virtual reality games the children are playing with. I told them we were doing this 40 years ago! Disneyland is virtual reality."

"The park achieved a kind of reality. Like these virtual reality games the children are playing with. I told them we were doing this 40 years ago! Disneyland is virtual reality."

John Hench, American Artist

Family, Children, Games, Reality, Years

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"So to answer your question, I'm not entirely sure how I ended up where I am today, in the sense that nobody in my family is an actor. It just happened by mistake."

"So to answer your question, I'm not entirely sure how I ended up where I am today, in the sense that nobody in my family is an actor. It just happened by mistake."

Hugh Dancy, British Actor

Family, Mistake, Question

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"My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy."

"My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy."

Anne Tyler, American Novelist

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"And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be an actor. My father used to say to me you should be an actor if you want to be in the arts."

"And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be an actor. My father used to say to me you should be an actor if you want to be in the arts."

Katey Sagal, American Athlete

Family, Father, Actor, Want

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"Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes."

"Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes."

Henry George, American Economist

Family, Children, Clothes

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"We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire."

"We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire."

Al Sharpton, American Politician

Family, Son, Now

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"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold."

"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold."

Ogden Nash, American Poet

Family, Men, Women, Children

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"Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood."

"Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood."

Gustav Stresemann, German Politician

Family, Father, Man, Youth

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"Children need continuity as they grow and learn."

"Children need continuity as they grow and learn."

Thomas Menino, American Politician

Family, Children

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"The Parent Trap gave my career another boost, starring in family comedies."

"The Parent Trap gave my career another boost, starring in family comedies."

Maureen O'Hara, Irish Actress

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"My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more."

"My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more."

Pete Rose, American Athlete

Family, Father, Practice

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"I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth."

"I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth."

Clayton Christensen, American Businessman

Family, God, Bible, Earth

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