My Family Quotes - Page 26

• Wisdom and strength, and my family, is what I'd like for you to pray for.

  George W. Bush

  Praying

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• The best thing about my family is my wife. She is a great first lady. I know that sounds not very objective, but that's how I feel. And she's also patient. Putting up with me requires a lot of patience.

  George W. Bush

  Wife, Sound, Firsts

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• I was the first person to go to university from my family.

  Ellie Goulding

  Firsts, University, Persons

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up with a poor boy's sense of longing, in my case not for what my family had never had, but for what we had had and lost.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Growing Up, Boys, Poverty

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

  Aravind Adiga

  Growing Up, Class, Mathematics

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• This decision was something I have thought about for a long time going back to the lockout and spending the year in Russia. Though I decided to return this past season, Lou was aware of my desire to go back home and have my family there with me. The most difficult thing for me is to leave the New Jersey Devils, a great organization that I have a lot of respect for, and our fans that have been great to me.

  Ilya Kovalchuk

  Home, Past, Russia

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• I would give everything if I could only keep my family.

  Johnny Depp

  Inspirational, Giving, If I Could

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• I don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not prone to depression, but I get depressed because everybody gets depressed. Suddenly I'm away from my family or doing a job I'm not enjoying.

  David Thewlis

  Jobs, Worry, Insecurity

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

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• I have ... spoken to the heads of various Wall Street equity derivatives trading desks and every single one of the senior managers I spoke with told me that Bernie Madoff was a fraud. Of course no one wants to take an undue career risk by sticking their head up ... The fewer people who know who wrote this report the better. I am worried about the personal safety of myself and my family.

  Harry Markopolos

  Senior, Wall, Careers

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• I was the first one in my family to go to college.

  Joe Lhota

  College, Firsts

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• It's more of the older people in my family.

  Amber Rose

  People, Older People

  "Amber Rose reveals family race battle: 'They feel like they're more superior or better than an African American'" by Claire Rutter, www.mirror.co.uk. January 18, 2015.

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• When it comes to my family I never quite know how protective I have to be, or what I should or shouldn't say.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Never Quit, Should, Protective

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• The first thing, when I got the money, I knew I would support somebody. And the person I supported was my family. Because we were really in debt with the money. And - so I gave to my father this suitcase full of money. And he couldn't believe it. And that was something very special.

  Michael Schumacher

  Father, Believe, Support

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• Sometimes I just want to be with my family and watch movie and eat some popcorn. But when I step on the mat I know there is no other place I'd rather be.

  Marcelo Garcia

  Watches, Popcorn, Want

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• In my family, misery didn't just love company, it wanted hostages.

  Jerry Stahl

  Misery, Company, Wanted

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• My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Father, Cutting, Monsters

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• My family is everything to me.

  Tiki Barber

  Family Is Everything

  Tiki Barber, Gil Reavill (2008). “Tiki: My Life in the Game and Beyond”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• I always feel like I want to write a song when I'm really upset. And when I'm in an argument with my family, I go straight to the piano and just kind of take it out on the piano and get all emotional.

  Pixie Lott

  Song, Writing, Emotional

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• I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.

  Patricia Reilly Giff

  Teaching, Writing, Careers

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• All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.

  Patricia Reilly Giff

  Book, School, Kids

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• My family were staunch believers in physical violence, not automatic violence, and we had a Safeway around the corner, so we never really needed to kill anything.

  Laurie Notaro

  Violence, Needed, Believer

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• My fervent hope is that it would be possible for me and my family to leave for the U.S. on Hillary Clinton's plane.

  Chen Guangcheng

  Would Be, Clinton, Planes

  "Activist Chen Guangcheng: Let Me Leave China on Hillary Clinton’s Plane". Interview with Melinda Liu, www.thedailybeast.com. May 2, 2012.

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• Some people are haunted by their pasts, but not my family. I mean, how can you be haunted by something that never really dies?

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Mean, Past, People

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• I think I am doing my works to link myself, my family, with society — with the cosmos. To link me with my family to the cosmos, that is easy, because all literature has some mystic tendency. So when we write about our family, we can link ourselves to the cosmos.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Writing, Thinking, Cosmos

  "Conversation with Kenzaburo Oe" by Harry Kreisler, "Conversations with History", Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley, globetrotter.berkeley.edu. April 16, 1999.

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• When my family all got together, I'd always get up and entertain everyone, but it was all a bit of a joke. My first real memory of singing for people was when I was about eleven or 12.

  Duffy

  Memories, Real, People

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