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Family Quotes


"The things that make me happy most are my family and working."



"I'll tend to her as no mother ever tended a child, a daughter. Nobody will ever get my milk no more except my own children. I never had to give it to nobody else--and the one time I did it was took from me--they held me down and took it. Milk that belonged to my baby.... I know what it is to be without the milk that belongs to you; to have to fight and holler for it, and to have so little left."


"My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success."


"Tune in to Kids and Family Week is perfect for me."


"My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway."



"I don't want to make that sound like I'm preaching from a mountain top when I say you have to give your family everything, because I know it's hard for people. I'm lucky to be in a position where you can establish those ground rules and make it that way."


"I come from a family of great readers and storytellers."


"If you live in each other's pockets long enough, you're related."



"My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod."


"Tammy Faye, I pray for every day. I really liked her. I wanted to be in their family."



"I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family."



"For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them."



"I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name."


"After a week of back and forth, and forth and back over firearms, it's good to see a consensus developing on this common-sense amendment to keep handguns away from children."


"Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country."


"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."


"We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished children."


"This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero."



"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?"


"We're going to have a tax cut. Today's American family is overtaxed at all levels."


"If it looks like a cat, walks like a cat, and has whiskers like a cat, it's probably a damn cat. But if it eats your groceries, messes up your kitchen, and makes you want to rip out your hair by the roots, you either married it or gave birth to it."


"I was brought up Catholic, and my family is still very religious."


"Nobody in my family ever thought that I'd a be a model."


"All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma."


"My Lovely GrandsonYour lovely smile that warms my heartYour infectious laughter that brings me joyI fell in love in with your charming characterGrandma's little boyMay God protect you in every aspect of your lifeMay He give you wisdom in everything you doMay He bless you and keep youAll the days of your life."


"The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility."


"Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family."


"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."


"The study of music was a family interest."
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