Family Quotes

• It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?

  

  Jonathan Franzen
  • Work
  • Book
  • Attention

• We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Family
  • History
  • Ignore

• 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
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• There can be legal conflicts over whether registering intent is enough to qualify you as an organ donor or whether a doctor must still ask your family's permission.

  

  Richard Thaler
  • Permission
  • Whether
  • Conflicts

• I reproach so many things about my family, but on the other hand, I kept asking them to be my family.

  

  Claire Denis
  • Family
  • Hand

• I'm very much a family person, and that's always my first priority.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Family
  • Priority

• It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Family
  • Place
  • Letters

• The family is inclusive of not just your genetic family, but the people that you meet along the way.

  

  Jane Seymour
  • People
  • Family

• I can still remember the first time I heard a Beatles song. It was the fall of 1964, my second year in an American school after my family moved back from overseas, and I was standing on the corner of 64th street and First Avenue with my friend Larry Campbell.

  

  Andrew Rosenthal
  • Time
  • School
  • Remember

• You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony.

  

  Joan Jett
  • Family

• You leave home, and then when you come back, you have a kind of perspective that you didn't have before that in some way problematizes your relationship with your family. You just start to be able to have a sort of double vision about them and who they are and how you grew up that can be really painful.

  

  Jennine Capó Crucet
  • Family
  • Relationship
  • Vision

• A lot of my family were teachers, so that's what I always thought I'd end up being.

  

  Keren Woodward Bananarama
  • Family
  • Teachers

• The wrestling business is my family.

  

  Brooke Hogan
  • Family
  • Business
  • Wrestling

• The Way teaches that people outside the cult are evil - of the Devil. In line with that belief, the members tried to alienate me from my family, to whom I am very close, and from my friends. So I just drifted away. In seeing my three-month involvement as 'just a phase,' my parents were lucky rather than wise.

  

  Michael O'Keefe
  • People
  • Parents
  • Outside

• And he that is taught to live upon little, owes more to his father's wisdom, than he that has a great deal left him, does to his father's care.

  

  William Penn
  • Father
  • Wisdom
  • Care

• I'm very happy and excited to be re-joining the Sixers family as a part of their broadcast team. I spent my best and most enthusiastic years of my NBA career with this organization and its fans and I truly feel honored and blessed to have been given this opportunity to return.

  

  Eric Snow
  • Happy
  • Career
  • Team

• The success of an archery shot may bring food to the hunter's starving family, or may constitute a horrible murder. But these outcomes are irrelevant to the assessment of that shot as a hunter-archery shot, as an attempt to hit prey without running excessive risk of failure.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Hunter

• My personal missteps - how many Americans have died as a result of that? None. Other than my family, how many victims were there? None. And yet, in refusing to engage in a responsible debate about Iraq, how many Americans died? Thousands. And America seems to have no problem with that.

  

  Scott Ritter
  • Problem
  • Responsible
  • Victim

• The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family: We remain connected, even against our wills.

  

  Anthony Brandt
  • Powerful
  • Birth
  • Ties

• Mother, are you there? I love you. I never meant to hit you over the head with that shovel.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Family
  • Mother

• In keeping with our aim to start construction on the new Family Center sometime in 2006, the dress for our Building Hope dinner will be construction casual, with tool belts and hard hats optional.

  

  Eric Johnson
  • Hope
  • Aim
  • Construction

• I came from a poor family in Coney Island. I learned to write by reading the 'Post.' This was my education.

  

  Jerry Della Femina
  • Family
  • Education
  • Reading

• The families of our friends are always a disappointment.

  

  Norman Douglas
  • Family
  • Disappointment

• I quickly learned that you don't have to be incarcerated by suffering, and that, in spite of the dysfunctional nature of your family, you are an individual in full possession of your life.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Suffering
  • Individual
  • Possession

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