Family Quotes
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My father died when I was nine, but I came from a stable family environment, which I think does contribute to being well-behaved.
Robert Winston
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Your mortgage shouldn't have been treated as a wager - it should be a way to provide a home and financial stability for you and your family.
Lisa Madigan
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The Greeks were smarter than us, and they had different words for different kinds of love. There's storge, which is family love. That's not us. There's eros, which is sexual love. There's philia, which is brotherly love. And then there's the highest form. Agape.” He pronounced it “aga-pay.” “That's transcendental love, like when you place the other person above yourself.
Bill Konigsberg
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I just always really wanted to swim. It was always a family thing: dad obviously swam, and my sister did, too. And mum used to come along to meets. They had to drag me out of the pool - so there was never any pressure on me to swim. It was just something I loved doing.
Aimee Willmott
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You know that family is going to be there for you no matter what. My dad gave me a freakin' kidney!
Sarah Hyland
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When your family is with you, it is not the hardest part. The hardest part is not giving up! Sometimes you stop and see everything and you do not know if everything that you are doing is going to pay off. If you work hard, it is going to pay off. But, you will not know until it actually pays off! It is easy to say: "I am not doing this anymore. It's not working!" But, there is a time that you invested so long and so much, that giving up is not an option! You need to keep on going and believe that persistence definitely pays off.
Barbara Padilla
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When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?
Robin Williams
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I believe that the great majority of people coming here illegally have no other option. They want to provide for their family. But we need to control our border.
Jeb Bush
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My fans, country radio, friends, family, you name it - they know I love to perform.
Blake Shelton
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Family is what grounds you.
Angelina Jolie
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I love my job every day. So whether it's for four years or for two weeks, it's still... And when you're working on a set, it feels like a family straight away.
Kaya Scodelario
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No one ever said, 'Be a doctor.' But because so many members of my extended family - aunts, uncles - were doctors, there was this expectation that I'd probably be a physician.
Elizabeth Blackburn
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In nothing was slavery so savage and relentless as in its attempted destruction of the family instincts of the Negro race in America. Individuals, not families; shelters, not homes; herding, not marriages, were the cardinal sins in that system of horrors.
Fannie Barrier Williams
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My journey started with the understanding that poor parents share the universal desire for education for their children. No family in our experience has ever turned down educational support for their daughter.
Ann Cotton
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After he was assassinated, his family and the men who had served him continued the lying and began the destruction, censoring and hiding of JFK's medical records.
Richard Reeves
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I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just interested.
Ricky Jay
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When a mother goes to the store and purchases food for her child, she has the right to know what she is feeding her family.
Bernie Sanders
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I'm really focused on my research almost 100 percent. That, and my family and kids.
Joseph DeRisi
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I'm not the geek in the family: I'm the organizer. But what I do know is that we have a very terrific team of consultants, former federal cybersecurity experts who are working with us to make sure we have a very safe system.
Donna Brazile
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Can you, who have always been used to serenity and order in a family, to rational, refined, and improving conversation, relinquish them, and launch into the whirlpool of frivolity, where the correct taste and the delicate sensibility which you possess must constantly be wounded...
Hannah Webster Foster
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What I suddenly understood was that a thank-you note isn't the price you pay for receiving a gift, as so many children think it is, a kind of minimum tribute or toll, but an opportunity to count your blessings. And gratitude isn't what you give in exchange for something; it's what you feel when you are blessed--blessed to have family and friends who care about you, and who want to see you happy. Hence the joy from thanking.
Will Schwalbe
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Who needs soap operas now when we have social media timelines? Now you can get a similar drama fix by just paying attention to your friends and family members' Facebook pages.
Luvvie Ajayi
