Family Quotes - Page 12

• The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

  Christopher Lasch

  Hunting, Diversity, Fidgeting

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• She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Beauty, Fathers Day

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• I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.

  Ednita Nazario

  Love, Children, Common Threads

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• I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.

  Barack Obama

  Country, My Family, Members

  "Obama Al-arabiya Interview: Full Text". Interview with Hisham Melhem, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2009.

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• Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

  Pope John Paul II

  Love, Anniversary, Catholic

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• Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.

  Richard G. Scott

  Goal, Boxes, Contact

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• Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.

  Charlie Sheen

  Dad, School, Aggravation

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• I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

  Frank Sinatra

  Inspirational, Live Life, Good Friend

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

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• At a certain point I'm going to want to have a family.

  Gwen Stefani

  Want, Certain

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

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• It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

  Gertrude Stein

  Forget The Past, Acquaintance, Extraordinary

  Gertrude Stein, Ulla E. Dydo (1993). “A Stein Reader”, p.590, Northwestern University Press

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• I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Issues, Political, Grew Up

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• You have to defend your honor. And your family.

  Suzanne Vega

  Vocabulary Words, Honor, Your Honor

  Suzanne Vega (1999). “The passionate eye: the collected writing of Suzanne Vega”, Avon Books

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• Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

  Barbara Walters

  Inspirational, Children, Kids

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• A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Happiness

  "Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Desig". Book by Laurence G. Boldt (p. 100), 1993.

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• Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.

  Rick Riordan

  Home, Trying, Sometimes

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series”, p.115, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

  Arundhati Roy

  Hurt, Doctors, Trouble

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.70, Penguin Books India

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• Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.

  Kofi Annan

  Community, Political, Fuel

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• I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.

  Sheryl Crow

  Mean, Achievement, Towns

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• If we are too busy, if we are carried away every day by our projects, our uncertainty, our craving, how can we have the time to stop and look deeply into the situation-our own situation, the situation of our beloved one, the situation of our family and of our community, and the situation of our nation and of the other nations?

  Nhat Hanh

  Community, Looks, Beloved

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2003). “Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• The whole world is one family.

  Sun Yat-sen

  Failure, Vedas, World

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• The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

  Ronald Reagan

  Book, Reading, Phones

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• When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

  Alex Haley

  Talking, Alex, Earth

  "Race: Haley's Rx: Talk, Write, Reunite" in TIME magazine, February 14, 1977.

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• The most difficult is the first family, to bring someone out of the world.

  Richard G. Scott

  World, Firsts, Difficult

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• The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together - and that's the backbone of our whole business, catering to families - that's what we hope to do.

  Walt Disney

  Important, Together, Backbone

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• Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Love, Happiness, Attitude

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