Large Family Quotes - Page 3

• I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Three, Older Sister

  "Alexander McCall Smith: My family values". Interview with Michelle Hodgson, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2011.

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• Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Family, Character, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2077, Delphi Classics

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• Children make you want to start life over.

  Muhammad Ali

  Baby, Children, Silly

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• The idea of having a large family, I definitely had a romantic notion of it.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Ideas, Notion

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it's funny, because most of my best friends come from very large families. So it always felt as if I had lots of siblings, though in the end I had to leave them and go home. I kind of got the best of both worlds as a kid.

  Sophia Bush

  Funny, Sibling, Home

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• As I wrote 'The Christmas Lamp' I realized that tradition is priceless, whether you have a small family, a large family, or no family.
  Tradition doesn't have to be logical; it only has to emphasize the light of Christ and his everlasting love.

  Lori Copeland

  Christmas, Light, Lamps

  Lori Copeland (2009). “The Christmas Lamp: A Novella”, p.60, Zondervan

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• We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Family, Character, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2077, Delphi Classics

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• The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me.

  Nevil Shute

  Men, Pilots, Tests

  Nevil Shute (1954). “Slide rule: the autobiography of an engineer”

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• We do not know what we can bear until we are put to the test. Many a delicate mother, who thought that she could not survive the death of her children, has lived to bury her husband and the last one of a large family, and in addition to all this has seen her home and last dollar swept away; yet she has had the courage to bear it all and to go on as before. When the need comes, there is a power deep within us that answers the call.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Mother, Husband, Children

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “Peace, Power & Plenty (Unabridged): Before a Man Can Lift Himself, He Must Lift His Thought”, p.7, e-artnow

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• I was from such a large family that when I first met my wife, I told her: 'You can go work outside of the house and I'll stay home and continue making my cartoon strips. Maybe I'll make some commercials nearby, you know I'll do anything locally, but I would love to just stay at home and raise the kids like I did when I was growing up.'

  Robert Rodriguez

  Growing Up, Home, Kids

  "Robert Rodriguez Interview" by Daniel Barna, www.askmen.com.

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• We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war.

  Kofi Annan

  Family, War, Home

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• I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children.

  Anne Hathaway

  Family, Children, Want

  Interview with Angelina Jolie, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 27, 2010.

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• Rich and great people can take care of themselves; but the poor and defenceless - the men with small cottages and large families - the men who must work six days every week if they are to live in anything like comfort for a week, - these men want defenders; they want men to maintain their position in Parliament; they want men who will protest against any infringement of their rights.

  John Bright

  Men, Rights, People

  Speech at his Durham election in July 1843. "The Life Of John Bright". Book by G. M. Trevelyan, p. 100, 1913.

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• Haiti is extremely stratified socially with a number of large families controlling most of the economy, and import-export.

  Michele Montas

  Numbers, Haiti, Economy

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• ... I saw a small boy who belongs to one of those large families who only practice at birth control.

  Anne Ellis

  Boys, Practice, Birth Control

  Anne Ellis (1997). “Plain Anne Ellis: More about the Life of an Ordinary Woman”, p.31, U of Nebraska Press

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• Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Family, Children, Home

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