Family Quotes
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I'm the curvy one of the family.
Elizabeth Olsen
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And so today, the undermining of the home and family is on the increase, with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the head of the home and create rebellion among the children. Isaiah describes the condition when he states, "As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them." and then these words follow-and consider these words seriously when you think of those political leaders who are promoting birth control and abortion: "O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths."
Ezra Taft Benson
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I'm not really very ambitious. I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful.
James D'arcy
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Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
Auguste Renoir
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When your young and hungry and nobody's ever really accepted you because of your color and class, the hurt of your own family having cast you out in the first place still inside you somewhere, you dance hard because there is no other way to live, and when opportunity knocks its more of an abduction than a housecall.
Margaret Cho
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" ... It is not my desire to wound the feelings of any person with whom I am connected in family bonds. I may be a hypocrite," said Mr. Pecksniff, cuttingly, "but I am not a brute."
Charles Dickens
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When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.
John Cheever
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I grew up in a family where the love of stories is very strong. And there's also a love of performance. I think one reason stories were so important in my family was that we moved around a lot.
Ann-Marie MacDonald
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I am fighting royalty. I have gypsy kings on both sides of the family.
Tyson Fury
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We're not much of a camping family. When I was in Cub Scouts, we went camping once, and my dad snored the whole time and kept me up. It wasn't that fun.
Chandler Riggs
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My family was going back to England to visit my mother's grandmother, who was very ill. We went up to Liverpool and I met my great-aunt, who was just a force of nature. She was an elocution teacher and a huge enthusiast for theater and the classics. I took her amateur acting class, and she was really impressed with me.
Kim Cattrall
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The guardianship of the weaker sex has survived in the family law which still states, 'And he shall be your master.'
Clara Zetkin
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People think that every day we pass monumental legislation. Oftentimes, the most important thing that you have done that day is help a family with a visa.
Lisa Murkowski
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I should like a great lake of ale, for the King of Kings. I should like the family of heaven to be drinking it through time eternal.
Brigit of Kildare
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I rented a house in Favignana, off the coast of Sicily, in the mid or late '90s. There was a revolving door of visiting friends and family - we played games, painted our faces, went swimming naked, cooked big meals, rode around on motorini, and had great cappuccinos.
Amber Valletta
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I grew up in a family that nearly lost everything, but I ended up in the United States Senate because I grew up in an America that invested in kids like me and built a real future for us.
Elizabeth Warren
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I was the only actor in my family. I wasn't given a lot of advice; I had to work it out.
Joe Gilgun
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It is our basic right to be a happy person, happy family, and eventually a happy world. That should be our goal.
Dalai Lama
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The south is very focused on family... the musical heritage of Muscle Shoals especially and the bands from the region.
Jason Isbell
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The whole family is tight. We all really love each other.
Kieran Culkin
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My childhood memories include a time when the government confiscated my family's possessions and exiled us to a camp in the B.C. Interior, just because my grandparents were from Japan.
David Suzuki
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I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history.
John Lone
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I came along with that crowd of singer-songwriters who were able to make their own statements in such a personal way that it changed the industry: Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Sly and the Family Stone.
Al Jarreau
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I feel very, very thankful to have the family that I do.
Matt Bomer