Family Members Quotes

• He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

  Chanakya

  Family, Education, Grief

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• You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspirational, Family, God

  Address at his enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, September 7, 1986.

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• Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.

  Marsha Norman

  Family, Mean, Being Thankful

  Marsha Norman (1983). “'Night, Mother”, p.19, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Sometimes when family members least deserve love, they need it most. Love is not appropriately expressed in threats, accusations, expressions of disappointment, or retaliation. Real love takes time, patience, help, and continuing performances.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Disappointment, Real, Love Is

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• If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

  Robert Breault

  Family, Gathering, Minutes

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• You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn't depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Best Friend, Family, Good Friend

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• Doctor MacKenzie says "Sometimes I think the Victorians had the right idea. When you lost a family member back then you were suppose to be in full mourning, dress in nothing but black, for a whole year. Then you went into something they called 'half mourning' for another full year, adn during those two years, you were pretty much expected to have emotional breakdowns, you could do it whenever you felt you needed to, and everybody would support you. Now?, A month after a tragedy, maybe two, and you're expected to be all better-or down pills so you can pretend you are.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Emotional, Thinking, Support You

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• I was blessed to have family members who encouraged me to pursue my dreams. Whether it is your parents, or your uncles or your aunts or even the neighbor down the road, it's important that kids have someone who encourages them to chase their rainbow.

  Dolly Parton

  Family, Dream, Uncles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends.

  Holly Hunter

  Daughter, Mother, Husband

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let us open wide the windows of our hearts, that each family member may feel welcome and 'at home.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Family, Home, Heart

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• If you don't make a conscious choice... someone else will decide for you. It may be your boss, a family member, an advertiser, a collective social influence, or someone or something else, but it won't be something of your deliberate choosing.

  Steve Pavlina

  Thought Provoking, Choices, Boss

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• Many of my family members are teachers in the arts, and I picked up the camera years ago, in high school.

  Steven Sebring

  Teacher, Art, School

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One of my hardest parts of my job is to console the family members who have lost their life.

  George W. Bush

  Jobs, Stupid, Presidential

  Prime Time Press Conference on Iraq War, delivered on 13 April 2004 from the East Room of the White House

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• People are discouraged from voting and part of what is important for Latino citizens is to make your voice heard, because you're not just speaking for yourself. You're speaking for family members, friends, classmates of yours in school.

  Barack Obama

  School, Voice, People

  "No, this video does not show Obama urging undocumented people to vote" by Caitlin Dewey and Abby Ohlheiser, www.washingtonpost.com. November 8, 2016.

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• If you have a family member who maybe is undocumented, then you have an even greater reason to vote.

  Barack Obama

  Vote, Reason, Members

  "No, this video does not show Obama urging undocumented people to vote" by Caitlin Dewey and Abby Ohlheiser, www.washingtonpost.com. November 8, 2016.

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• Losing a family member, and her dying knowing she didn't have to die, that...is a scar that will last forever for the people remaining, and even with good actions and good words, that scar will never disappear. Ever.

  Kim Du-han

  Drama, Knowing, People

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• If the police believed that they were planning any form of resistance against the state, then you were just gone. Nobody knew where you were, and you just hoped to see that family member again.

  Trevor Noah

  Police, Gone, Resistance

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Granted, we may try to help our own family members because they share our DNA. Or help someone else in expectation that they will help us later. But when you look at what we admire as the most generous manifestations of altruism, they are not based on kin selection or reciprocity. An extreme example might be Oskar Schindler risking his life to save more than a thousand Jews from the gas chambers. That's the opposite of saving his genes.

  Richard Dawkins

  Opposites, Dna, Expectations

  Source: inters.org

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• Along with church monies and the United Way, most of the others that I give the most to are organizations for which I have some personal connection in that they have affected family members; i.e., kidney, cancer, heart, and organ donation. My wife and I have also contributed to and been heavily involved with the Boys and Girls Club of Utah County.

  LaVell Edwards

  Girl, Cancer, Heart

  Source: universe.byu.edu

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• I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other.

  David Selby

  Travel, Past, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I stole a significant amount of money from a family member. I knew I was going to get caught, but I was so desperate I didn't care. It was a cry for help.

  Cory Monteith

  Care, Helping, Cry

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To be successful in the family the father must have the welfare of each family member at heart and his decisions and plans must be based upon what is best for them.

  Helen Andelin

  Father, Heart, Successful

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• Students and invited speakers do not shed their constitutional rights when they step up to the graduation podium. Expressing faith in God does not disqualify a student from delivering a graduation message. Being designated as valedictorian or salutatorian is an honor, and students chosen for that honor should be free to share their gratitude to God with their fellow students and family members.

  Mathew Staver

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• The resentment that criticism engenders can demoralize employees, family members and friends, and still not correct the situation that has been condemned.

  Dale Carnegie

  Criticism, Resentment, Members

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• Honestly, I think some of my family members of a certain generation were more skittish about me playing a gay character on Six Feet Under than watching me play a killer.

  Michael C. Hall

  Character, Gay, Thinking

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