Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

Whatever you define family as, family is just a part of belonging to something that takes care of you and nurtures you... and when you have lost that, and you want to get that back, it's pretty easy to get emotional about it.

Ellen DeGeneres

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• Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.

  

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• I didn't grow up with a lot of babies in my life because I only grew up with my parents - I didn't have any brothers or sisters - and I didn't have my family close by.

  

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• You have to tease your family. You tease the ones that you're closest to.

  

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• Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.

  

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• Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.

  

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• It's the experts in adolescent development who wax most emphatic about the value of family meals, for it's in the teenage years that this daily investment pays some of its biggest dividends.

  

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• Whatever you define family as, family is just a part of belonging to something that takes care of you and nurtures you... and when you have lost that, and you want to get that back, it's pretty easy to get emotional about it.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Lost