Family Members Quotes - Page 2

• Let us open wide the windows of our hearts, that each family member may feel welcome and 'at home.' Let us open also the doors of our very souls, that the dear ________ may enter. Remember His promise: 'Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him' (Revelation 3:20).

  Thomas S. Monson

  Home, Heart, Men

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• Only about one per cent of my paintings show family members. Do they help me deal with problems? It's likely that these problems can only be depicted. But photographs, private ones and others, keep appearing that fascinate me so much that I want to paint them. And sometimes the real meaning these images have for me only becomes apparent later.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Real, Want

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• Children, we should visit homes of the poor, orphanages and hospitals from time to time. We should take our family members along and offer assistance and look after the welfare of inmates. A word spoken with love and concern will give them more comfort than any amount of money. That will lead to the expansion of our hearts as well.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Home, Heart

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• After praying, and before eating anything, it is a good custom for everyone to feed one another a small portion of the food. This will help to cultivate mutual love and affection among the family members.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Food, Mutual Love, Helping

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• The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money by fiat or deflate the size of their debt unilaterally and that family members die instead of existing infinitely.

  Matt Taibbi

  Family, Debt, Size

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• Most Americans have some experience with nursing homes or other long term care settings, and nearly half have had a family member or close friend in a home in the past three years.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Home, Nursing, Past

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• As for suspense, I like to write books that draw you into the hero's plight from the opening pages, where people put their lives on the line for something - a belief, a family member, the truth.

  Andrew Gross

  Book, Hero, Writing

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• The only people I have seen who have been truly pushing for the truth are the family members.

  Sibel Edmonds

  People, Pushing, Members

  "Former FBI Translator Sibel Edmonds Calls Current 9/11 Investigation Inadequate". Interview with by Jim Hogue, baltimorechronicle.com. May 07, 2004.

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• Back in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family table at dinner time and exchanged our daily experiences. It wasn't very organized, but everyone was recognized and all the news that had to be told was told by each family member. We listened to each other and the interest was not put on; it was real.

  Bob Keeshan

  Children, Real, Dinner

  "Bob Keeshan, Creator and Star of TV's 'Captain Kangaroo,' Is Dead at 76" by Richard Severo, www.nytimes.com. January 24, 2004.

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• Anyone who has ever experienced dehumanized life on welfare or any other confidence-shaking dependency knows that a paid job may be preferable to the dole, even when the handout is coming from a family member.

  Gloria Steinem

  Jobs, Unemployment, May

  Gloria Steinem (1986). “Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions”, New Amer Library

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• The mere idea of asking a family member if they intentionally stopped sending me an annual bonus makes me feel like breaking out in hives.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Ideas, Asking, Bonus

  "Telltale Hurt" by Mallory Ortberg, www.slate.com. February 1, 2016.

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• I have a deeper compassion for those living with cancer, as well as their family members. And now when someone tells me that a loved one passed away, I feel it deeply, as though it were my own relative.

  Edwina Findley

  Cancer, Compassion, Passed Away

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• While this may look loving, when we struggle with an idol of dependence, we’re in fact not loving people as much as we’re using them to fulfill our need to belong, be liked, and be desired. This explains why some friends and family members can be so demanding, smothering, and needy. It also explains why we’re so easily inflated by praise and deflated by criticism. It’s as if others have the ability to determine our identity for that day based on a word or even a glance

  Mark Driscoll

  Struggle, Idols, People

  Mark Driscoll (2013). “Who Do You Think You Are?: Finding Your True Identity in Christ”, p.10, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When I learned the news about Harmon today, I felt like I lost a family member. He has treated me like one of his own. It's hard to put into words what Harmon has meant to me. He first welcomed me into the Twins family as an 18-year-old kid and has continued to influence my life in many ways. He is someone I will never forget and will always treasure the time we spent together. Harmon will be missed but never forgotten.

  Joe Mauer

  Kids, Years, Together

  "Quotes about the death of Harmon Killebrew", www.foxnews.com. May 17, 2011.

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• I didn't just want to be the one who was always looking around at the weird family members. I wanted to make my mistakes.

  Tig Notaro

  Mistake, Want, Members

  "Tig Notaro Is Not Afraid of the Dark". Interview With Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November 26, 2016.

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• People are going to always have their opinions whether you date a black man or not. I've had girlfriends, family members comment on black men that I've dated as well as white people. People want to see what they want to see. And if anybody doesn't fit that picture they're going to be like, 'Yeah, I didn't see you with him.'

  Sanaa Lathan

  Girlfriend, Men, White

  "Sanaa Lathan tries 'Something New'". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. August 4, 2010.

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• I find that a lot of times when family members get bronchitis or the flu or something like that, I'll kind of skate through and be really lucky and not get that sick.

  Aaron Bruno

  Sick, Lucky, Flu

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• I get inspired by what I go through. Experiencing all these different things we all go through like heartache, falling in love, watching a family member or a friend going through [something], and trying to write about it from a different perspective.

  Colbie Caillat

  Falling In Love, Writing, Perspective

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• When I was born, my dad and my mom gave me names, but in Africa, when your child is born, especially close family members can suggest names they want to add on.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Mom, Dad, Children

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I went to Jersey City State College to please a family member. I wasn't prepared for school. To say I failed out is putting it nicely.

  Derek Luke

  School, College, Cities

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.

  Ang Lee

  Movie, Thinking, Actors

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• I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

  Robert Redford

  Years, People, Conformity

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• I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.

  Ben Barnes

  Uncles, War, Average

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• The Mexico - United States border was always porous. People have been going and coming back since before the Spaniards arrived. Now we're seeing communities who have family members on the other side very frightened. I feel saddened for those families divided by violence. The whole border area is under siege.

  Sandra Cisneros

  People, Community, Mexico

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Cat, Animal

  "Pets Should Be Evacuated, Too" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2011.

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