George Burns Quotes
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns
Quotes to Explore
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I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.
Olivia Munn
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It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
Barack Obama
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I definitely understand what it's like not having family around when you want them there, but you don't live in the same city.
Vanessa Morgan
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All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
Patricia Reilly Giff
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Death in its natural state can be very beautiful. When you think about a body that's died of natural causes - family taking care of it - all of that is very beautiful.
Caitlin Doughty
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You have to tease your family. You tease the ones that you're closest to.
Parvesh Cheena
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I grew up in China, but I live in the U.S. and I want my children to understand what's going on over there. They ask me sometimes, 'Are we Chinese or Australians?' My family are in L.A., New York and China, and they have the freedom to go back and forth, which is really, really nice.
Wendi Deng Murdoch
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To be aware of others' accomplishments and the indebtedness we have to so many people is to appreciate and begin to respect all members of the human family.
Hamza Yusuf
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My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a weird mix.
Ian Gomez
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Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
Pat Robertson
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I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy.
Taraji P. Henson
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I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.
Randy Quaid
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The family which takes its mauve and cerise, air conditioned, power-steered, and power braked automobile out for a tour passes through cities that are badly paved, made hideous by litter, blighted buildings, billboards, and posts for wires that should long since have been put underground.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.
David Allan Coe
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In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
Barry Commoner
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At some point, if you're changing a really deep-seated behavior, you're going to have a moment of weakness.
Charles Duhigg
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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns
