Family Quotes
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Mothers, train up your children in righteousness; do not attempt to save the world and let your own family fall apart.
Ezra Taft Benson
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That is the situation in the factory where I work. The union has never gone in and the workers are nothing but poor victims of blackmail, dependent on the law of the owner, that is: I pay you and so I possess you and I possess your life, your family, and everything that surrounds you, and if you don’t do as I say I’ll ruin you.
Elena Ferrante
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When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Sofia Villani Scicolone
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To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children.
Erma Bombeck
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Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?
Trenton Lee Stewart
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If you're taking care of your family and society and are comfortable you can start to think about helping those most in need globally. That's how we became engaged in those things.
Bill Gates
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In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option; it was mandatory. So even though we didn’t have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could.
Eva Longoria
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I have a loving family, a strong faith and wonderful friends and fans who have, and continue, to support me.
Michael Jackson
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In the early '80s, my family vacationed to the United States.
Nico Santos
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Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.
Lois McMaster
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I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.
Elizabeth Edwards
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Go on daddy-daughter dates and father-and-sons' outings with your children. As a family, go on campouts and picnics, to ball games and recitals, to school programs, and so forth. Having Dad there makes all the difference.
Ezra Taft Benson
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Her family held strongly that for daughters to read in the daytime was to be idle. Well, if it was, thought Ingeborg lifting her head, that head that drooped so apologetically at home, with the defiance that distance encourages, then being idle was a blessed thing and the sooner one got away to where one could be it, uninterruptedly, the better.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.
Erika Cosby
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9/11 revealed that those about to die do not seem afraid or plead for forgiveness for their sins, if they think about them at all. They all have one thing in mind - those they love - and they all do the same thing: They call them up - spouses, family or friends - to tell them they love them.
Eugene Kennedy
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You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of the family.
Ethel Waters
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I care about family issues.
Evan Bayh
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Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world.
Susan Lieberman