Family Quotes
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I always thought my family was so bizarre, so when people started coming up to me and saying, 'My family was exactly like yours,' I was completely knocked out.
Mary Karr -
We build coalitions in order to gain power and, in that process, make it more necessary to be careful in deciding whom we can trust. We assume that we can automatically trust family only to discover betrayal among family members. Basically, in our money-conscious society of today, we don’t really know whom to trust and, worse, we don’t know how to create a trusting relationship. We value loyalty in the abstract, but in our pluralistic society, it is not at all clear to whom one should be loyal beyond oneself.
Edgar Schein
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It's very hypocritical to constantly say, 'We want to keep our kids close,' then send them home with so much homework that family time becomes nonexistent.
Marcia Gay Harden -
The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.
George Eliot -
There are many kinds of conceit, but the chief one is to let people know what a very ancient and gifted family one descends from.
Benvenuto Cellini -
One of my greatest pleasures is being on the farmland that's been in the family since 1833.
Jimmy Carter -
Whether you're saying 'thank you' to friends, family members, customers, or a hiring manager who interviewed you for a job, the case in favor of gratitude is both altruistic and pragmatic.
Charles Best -
I come from a family who didn't have much money but raised me to believe that money wasn't the most important thing in the world. We had enough; we were happy.
Edward Enninful
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I have a wonderful, supportive relationship with my family. I get lots of advice from them about all kinds of things.
Maya Hawke -
Millions of centuries of voyaging via animals, water, and wind brought my snail's family to colonize the woods near where I was staying. It was by chance that my snail's path had intersected with a human trail, just as a friend - the sort of friend who stopped for a snail - was passing by. The history of gastropod travel now included the unexpected journey of my own snail, which had arrived at my bedside by human transport.
Elisabeth Tova Bailey -
I grew up in a dysfunctional family.
Melissa Gilbert -
My father is from Jamaica, my mother is from the U.K., but I was adopted as an infant by a really wonderful family in Alberta, Canada. What we refer to as 'Texas of the North.'
Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman -
Always I remember when I am young, I ask my mother, 'I really want to be a dress designer.' In that time, was quite difficult because, you know, my family always criticize me for it not to be a man's job.
Hubert de Givenchy -
If you have a friend or a family member who's bipolar, or has panic attack disorder, or is depressed, read up on it a little bit so you can get to know where they're coming from.
Eric Millegan
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I know what we're going to do as PWR BTTM. We're going to put a new record out; we're going to go on tour a lot, and we're going to do cool stuff. We're going to try to be kind to our friends and family and loved ones. And we're going to look cute.
Ben Hopkins -
I come from a family that does not believe in art to this day. They think art is vanity.
James Turrell -
My parents are divorced, but they have and always are there for me. They've never missed a ball game or anything else I've done, and we've always been so close.
Eric Winter -
We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.
Lawrence Welk -
Agriculture has become essential to life; the forest, the lake, and the ocean cannot sustain the increasing family of man; population declines with a declining cultivation, and nations have ceased to be with the extinction of their agriculture.
Elias Hasket Derby -
My grandmother was a nanny for an Orthodox Jewish family, and she would come home and tell us about that.
Milana Vayntrub
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My mother was a stay-at-home mom until I was about 11, when she got a job - and it was like a light came on inside her. It's not wrong to be passionate about your career. When you love what you do, you bring that stimulation back to your family.
Allison Pearson -
I'm very consistent about spending time with family. And when you have dinner with your daughters - they'll keep you in your place and they'll teach you something about perspective.
Barack Obama -
(describing Celine Dion's family of 14 siblings) You know there is just issues and boundries and secrets. The name of my book.
Kathy Griffin -
Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.
George Bernard Shaw