Family Quotes
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Unusual financial activity: none, unless you count the fact that someone in the family is way too into Civil War biographies. (Can this be a possible indication of Confederate insurgents still living and working in Virginia? Must research further.)
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This forest was immense. It stretched away uninterruptedly to the north, till stopped by having got to the shores of the Baltic. We had it all to ourselves. Unnoticed, except by what Johann called finches, we passed along its vistas, and no human eye beheld the capes, the coronets and the cockades. In that past which seemed to me at my age remote, these things had all been new and spick and span, because of the glory which for a time was the portion of the family; and when, having risen and blazed, the glory at last faded out, it left a litter behind it, in every stage of decomposition, for the ultimate use, so it appeared, of one small foreign girl and one small indigenous dachshund.
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There is a certain depth of illness that is piercing in its isolation: the only rule of existence is uncertainty, and the only movement is the passage of time. One cannot bear to live through another loss of function, and sometimes friends and family cannot bear to watch. An unspoken, unbridgeable divide may widen. Even if you are still who you were, you cannot actually fully be who you are.
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Because we were twins, we clung to each other. Because we were sisters, we depended on each other. Because we were family, we did not let go.
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I love what I do, and I love doing it, and I love getting better at it. I just am not willing to risk... Much... to go on to the next level. I don't want to risk my personal sanity or happiness or my family or the love of my life.
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'Dance India Dance' is family to me. I actually miss the madness whenever the season is not on air.
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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.
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A lady passed me a note in Australia one time that said, 'My daughter gets bullied at school because she has two moms, and you know, we told her just to tell them to watch 'Modern Family.'
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My sister and I - growing up, it was just the two of us, so we love that we're getting a big family and, you know, lots to be grateful for.
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My dad went to USC and it always had been very important to me and my family.
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We are not defined by the family into which we are born, but the one we choose and create. We are not born, we become.
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I'm blessed to have a family that always supported me being me.
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When you’re a certain artist and you do all this work, you leave the world with words, music, and art — but you leave your family with no daddy.
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Baseball life is a tough life on the family.
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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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The most important thing is that you have really good friends and family, and when you go back to them, it's like 'what?'. You carry on as who you are.
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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.
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Guns aren't toys! They're for family protection, hunting dangerous or delicious animals, and keeping the King of England out of your face!
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One thing that Life and I agreed right from the start was that one war photographer was enough for my family; I was to be a photographer of peace.
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I grew up in a Navy family.
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The evil times had come of eking out, of making do. At least, my husband seemed to regard the times we had arrived at as evil, but that was because he was in the unfortunate position of having a past to compare them with. I, who had practically no past, and whose family had never fallen from glory for the reason that it had had no glory to fall from, thought the times wholly delightful; and anyhow I rather liked camphor.
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I love my friends. They're my family.
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Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.
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I'm of Russian-Jewish background. Like many Soviet Jews, my parents were engineers. My family migrated from Ukraine to Israel when I was six. They arrived in Israel with very little... Within a year of arriving in Israel, the Yom Kippur War happened.
