Family Ties Quotes

• Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

  Virginia Satir

  Motivational, Family, Appreciation

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• In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.

  Eva Burrows

  Love, Family, Meaningful

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• When I got 'Family Ties', I wasn't even thinking about being an actress. I thought I might become a window dresser.

  Justine Bateman

  Thinking, Ties, Might

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

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• The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Sibling, Character

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• Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

  George Burns

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Funny, Family

  Anna Karenina pt. 1, ch. 1 (1875 - 1877) (translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude) See Susan Cheever 1

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• I'm very proud of Family Ties. It's meant a lot to a lot of people.

  Tina Yothers

  Ties, People, Proud

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• The family ties between hundreds of thousands of German families and their American relatives led many to think that America would never join a second war against Germany.

  Julius Streicher

  War, Thinking, America

  Der Stürmer newspaper, 1944.

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• We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

  Barbra Streisand

  Exercise, Hype, Ties

  Barbra Streisand's Letter to Democrats, www.foxnews.com. April 2, 2001.

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• The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

  Samuel Butler

  Christian, Believe, Health

  Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”, London : J. Cape

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• The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

  Felix Adler

  Family, School, Parenting

  FELIX ADLER (1880). “CREED AND DEED A SERIES OF DISCOURSES”

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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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• The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

  Dodie Smith

  Funny, Family, Heart

  Dear Octopus (1938) p. 120

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• In family life, love is the oil that eases friction.

  Eva Burrows

  Family, Love Life, Love Is

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• I tell you of all history the most beautiful product is the family tie.

  Zona Gale

  Beautiful, Ties, Products

  Zona Gale (2013). “Miss Lulu Bett: A Play in Three Acts”, p.47, Lulu.com

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• Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.

  Gail Buckley

  Family, Past, Mirrors

  "Books of the Times" by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, www.nytimes.com. 1986.

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• Mafia is a process,not a thing. Mafia is a form of clan - cooperation to which it's individual members pledge lifelong loyalty....Friendship, connections, family ties, trust, loyalty, obedience - this was the glue that held us together.

  Joseph Bonanno

  Loyalty, Ties, Together

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• I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of Family Ties between Monday and Friday.

  Gary David

  Friday, Monday, Writing

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• When I started drama school, theatre was the main draw. I never had any movie star notions. Not that there were family ties to the theatre, either.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Stars, Drama, School

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• At the end of the day, what I cherish most are the human relationships. With the unfailing support of my wife and partner I have lived my life to the fullest. It is the friendships I made and the close family ties I nurtured that have provided me with that sense of satisfaction at a life well lived, and have made me what I am.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Ties, Wife, Support

  Lee Kuan Yew (2013). “The Wit & Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew”, p.160, Editions Didier Millet

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• If [people] place such things as friendship and family ties above their own productive work, yes, then they are immoral. Friendship, family life and human relationships are not primary in a man's life. A man who places others first, above his own creative work, is an emotional parasite.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Emotional, Productive Work

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• In my view, immigrants today aren't any different from immigrants who have come to America throughout our nation's history. They bring new ideas, an entrepreneurial spirit and close family ties. They place a high value on education. And they are eager to achieve the American Dream. ... It's to our benefit to keep our doors open, and to keep enriching our economy and culture. I'd like to see America continue to do so.

  Dick Armey

  Dream, Doors, Views

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• When family ties are disturbed, devoted children arise.

  Laozi

  Children, Ties, Taoism

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• I'm more or less skeptical about marriage, because of family ties, relations between children and parents - it's all so depressing.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Depressing, Children, Ties

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• Abandon benevolence, discard duty, and people will return to the family ties.

  Laozi

  Ties, People, Taoism

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