Family Quotes
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability.
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I'm not going to break up my family, not for a book.
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The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.
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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.
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I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days.
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The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
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It seems that everywhere I go, people want the same things - security, education, family. It's just that so many people have no avenues through which to obtain these things.
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The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.
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When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.
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I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.
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Hi and Merry Christmas. I’m honored to have a chance to speak with you and your family this year. Recently we learned that our governments, working in concert, have created a system of worldwide system of mass surveillance watching everything we do. Great Britain’s George Orwell warned us of the danger of this kind of information.
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Holiday food is rich and indulgent. Going-home-to-see-family food is richer and even more indulgent.
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My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table.
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I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition.
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I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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I'm very lucky to have the support of my family.
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Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.
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The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.
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Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.
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That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.
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I don't have a family. I'd like to have one. I just haven't somehow gotten around to it yet.
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I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six, and we'd just go from activity to activity to activity. I think, finally, my parents just realized that we were missing something in our lives. They realized that it was time for us as a family to start going to church.
