Family Quotes
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Medicine comes with hope: the hope of having a healthy child, the hope of being able to raise your family.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics
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There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.
Al Gallagher
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You don't wanna walk around and say, 'I'm somebody's niece, I'm somebody's cousin, I'm somebody's daughter. Who are you?' And I think that's always the challenge when you grow up in a well-known family, is ultimately, you have to face yourself in the mirror and say, 'Who are you? What have you done?'
Maria Shriver
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A married man with a family will do anything for money.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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A man is like a two-story house. The first floor is equipped with an entrance and a living room. On the second floor is every family member's room. They enjoy listening to music and reading books. On the first underground floor is the ruin of people's memories. The room filled with darkness is the second underground floor.
Haruki Murakami
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You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family. We're all family - an extended family.
Sandra Bullock
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We're all fascinated by the way other people live their lives, how they cope with hardship and triumph, what they put in their home movies and family albums.
Kevin Macdonald
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I have two sisters. My father is Greek and comes from a family of seven. My mother is English and comes from a family of five.
George Michael
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I am a transporter of the Italian culture - culinary culture, family culture - because I love it, I thrive in it, and I think it's the right way.
Lidia Bastianich
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I've always had the same values. Family for me has always been important. When I shoot, everybody comes.
Tom Cruise
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Pluck from under the family all the props which religion and morality have given it, strip it of the glamour, true or false, cast round it by romance, it will still remain a prosaic, indisputable fact, that the whole business of begetting, bearing and rearing children, is the most essential of all the nation's businesses.
Eleanor Rathbone
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Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.
Jamie Lee Curtis
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One of reasons I was able to go to university was because of the sacrifices my family made.
Michael Gove
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No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him.
John Irving
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My family had liberal positions.
Emma Bonino
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In 2016, you shouldn't have to choose between succeeding at work and being there for your family.
Hillary Clinton
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Because you’re the county’s matriarch. You’re loved, respected, and there may not be enough of you left for your family to bury if we have to extract you from a flipped over, burning truck. Don’t put your people through that.
Beverly Jenkins
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The Forgotten Man is delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school, reading his newspaper, and cheering for the politician of his admiration, but he is the only one for whom there is no provision in the great scramble and the big divide. Such is the Forgotten Man. He works, he votes, generally he prays — but he always pays — yes, above all, he pays.
William Graham Sumner
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I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'
Cate Blanchett
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We should all know our family's story, all the more so if nobody tells it to us directly and we have to find it out for ourselves.
John Lanchester
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The responsibility of a man is to lead his family.
Ezra Taft Benson
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Family has always been the number one priority no matter what happens anywhere else.
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
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Similarly, the understanding that one can get more change in a family or organization by working with the motivated members (the strengths) in the system than by focusing on the symptomatic or recalcitrant members totally obliterates the search for answers to the question of how to motivate the unmotivated.
Edwin H. Friedman
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Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not the government, that is the fundamental building block of our society.
Jim Ryun