Family Quotes
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Occasionally, family members treat each other with less courtesy and kindness than they do acquaintances or even strangers.
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I'm pretty much a good Catholic girl at heart and I believe in family. I also have a basic belief that God takes care of me. I believe in prayer, even though I'm not that religious. I just have that foundation from my family. I mean when you think that you're just a human being and one of God's creatures, you can't take anything that seriously.
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The wrestling business is my family.
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The building block of every community is family.
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My family was not Republicans. I'm the youngest. I came to this party based upon choice.
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A lot of my family were teachers, so that's what I always thought I'd end up being.
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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.
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A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.
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Everybody in my family are doctors.
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History is very much bound up in family experience.
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Humor is essential to a full and happy life. It is a reliever and relaxer of pressure and tension, and the saving element in many situations.
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When family ties are disturbed, devoted children arise.
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Food historian Jessica B. Harris says African American cuisine is simply what black people ate. When I think about what my family ate, we ate what people think of as soul food on special occasions, on holidays, but our typical diet was leafy greens and nutrients and tubers - food that was as fresh as being harvested right before our meal. Whatever was in season, that's what we were eating. It was being harvested right from our backyard.
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If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means. And if there is any one thing that is grinding and discouraging and disheartening, it is to have debts and obligations that one cannot meet.
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My sense of injustice about our family's 'weirdness' in not owning a car was amplified by the fact that we did not own a television, either - my parents were unapologetic about this and told me very cheerfully that I would thank them for it when I was older, which was quite true.
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For some people, home is family and their mom's house or their girl or whatever, and I have those experiences as well, but the biggest thing for me is Chicago. I don't know how to explain it.
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Teasing was big in my family, and there is a wonderful way to tease and make people feel more loved.
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There's nothing more Broadway than 'Hedwig.' It's very family-friendly. There's innuendo and stuff, but not more than you'd see on TV.
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I think Christmas, for me, has always been about family, as cliche as that sounds.
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For me, cooking is very connected to my family and friends.
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I think a lot of people are capitalizing, perhaps exploiting, what was done via me, my family, my administration.
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The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me - my mother's side of the family have awful legs.
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Family has always been the number one priority no matter what happens anywhere else.
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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.
