Family Quotes
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I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.
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I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.
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That has always been it for me: family first.
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I'm a minimalist. I don't really need much to enjoy a good holiday - just my family and the bare essentials.
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I was happy as an only child, but I've always wanted to be part of a bigger family.
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From day one, since I was traded to the Clippers, the team has been amazing to not only me, but to my family.
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Bronagh looks after the kids and without her the family would disintegrate... there are some things you can't discuss with anyone other than your wife. There has to be a strong bond of trust.
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My Kashubian family, like the Jews, are people who were born and live in border areas and were suspected by the Nazis and by the Communists of being disloyal.
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It gets lonely. I miss my family on stage. This might change one day. I'm certainly not going to say I'm not going to work with them again.
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No family of an American hostage has ever been prosecuted for paying a ransom for the return of their loved ones. The last thing we should ever do is to add to a family's pain.
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At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.
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Even as a child, you can recognise the innocence of Piglet or the strange adult qualities of Eeyore. You just know you are with friends and family.
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Every Maryland family wants financial security, schools that work, quality healthcare, safer neighborhoods, and ever-expanding economic opportunity. These are the building blocks of a superior quality of life.
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There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.
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My mother's family didn't speak much about Europe: My mother was born in 1935, and her new-world parents were the sort who didn't want to worry their children about the war.
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There is a history of footballers in my family; my granddad played for Notts County and my dad played at county level.
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A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.
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The thing that interests me most about family history is the gap between the things we think we know about our families and the realities.
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We all like music in my family, but I'm the only one who's made it my life.
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Pride! In English it is a Deadly Sin. But in Urdu it is fakhr and nazish - both names that you can find more than once on our family tree.
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In the '50s and '60s, a family's first child went into the priesthood, the second went into the military, and the third child was an idiot and wound up in advertising.
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I love being with my family and just being a regular person.
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There are three lessons in philanthropy - one, involve the family, especially the spouse. She can be a remarkable driver of your initiative. Two, you need to build an institution, and you need to scale it up. Choose a leader for philanthropy whom you trust. Three, philanthropy needs patience, tenacity and time.
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We're a very close family and we're a very real family, and I think every real family has real problems.
