Family Quotes
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When I was young, I had two older sisters, and since I was the youngest in my family, my mom took me around with her all the time. I was forever with her when she was having coffee in the middle of the afternoon with her three sisters. And they would talk about men. I absorbed a lot of that.
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I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion. It's as though I had taken over the family Esso station.
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Singing was something I only did at family functions, but I never took it seriously.
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To make time for writing, one has to take time out from somewhere. Obviously, a fair amount of time that you spend with the family gets compromised. But my family has been very understanding and supportive.
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A woman who ran a feminist organization in India told me one thing that stands out for her is bride burning. If a groom's family doesn't like an arranged marriage and they want to get rid of the woman, in-laws may set fire to her in the kitchen, or she may commit suicide in a "kitchen fire".
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My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
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Rachell believed passionately in the value of beauty. If she was pressed for time she considered the filling of her bowl with flowers more important for her family's welfare than the making of a cake for tea. On this point her family entirely disagreed with her.
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Seeing the family is a very important part of my weekend.
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I think my greatest moments in life are family moments, births and marriages.
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The responsibility of a man is to lead his family.
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The Latina spirit translates to every aspect of our lives, from beauty to work to family. We're loving, we're loud, and we're beautiful in our essence.
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Everyone in my family still lives in Kalamazoo.
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The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.
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None of what’s happened to me and to my family has shaken what I know to be correct and true about science and medicine, and my experiences.
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A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.
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All I wanted to do was please my adopted family.
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And I come from a small Vietnamese family. We're really close too, all ten of us.
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I am a complete sucker for family time.
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Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.
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Traveling makes a vacation lose all appeal. You would never want to take the family to a European city. You travel a lot, but it's a job.
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I come from a family of servants. My father's father was a servant, and my father's father's father was a slave.
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Family relationships are just so fascinating - how they shape you as a person, how you can wound each other, how you're imprinted in a way by your family and the conditions under which you grow up.
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My family was all born in Sicily and I'm Italian-American. They're the real thing. They're authentic Italians, and honestly they're the most open-minded, nicest people in the world and nothing can really offend them. That's the way I think true Sicilians are.
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I have members of my family who are in the military. I have friends who are in the military. Classmates who served in the military.
