My Family Quotes - Page 28

• My family's really close.

  Paul Walker

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• I'm really close to all of my family.

  Paul Walker

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• I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.

  Anne Stevenson

  Believe, Order, Useless

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• I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.

  Paula Poundstone

  Watches, Sense Of Humor, Used

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• My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Writing, Literature, Forget

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• I tend to show everything I do to my family, to check they won't be offended.

  David Sedaris

  Family, Checks, Shows

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• When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.

  Calvin Trillin

  Hands, Clean, Century

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• I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak.

  Joe Namath

  Children, Thinking, Should Have

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• It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  World, Impossible To Forget, Dignity

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• So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami.

  Ruben Blades

  Miami, Panama

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• So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with.

  Ruben Blades

  Miami, Obvious, Needed

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• Of course I regret not having been able to spend time with my family.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Family, Regret, Able

  "Aung San Suu Kyi: 'I have personal regrets'" By Eamonn Walsh, www.bbc.co.uk. September 23, 2012.

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• I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball - just spend a lot more time with my family.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Balls, Want, Littles

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• My family has been amazing, and they understand how blessed I am. They've been able to keep my sense of humor.

  Karen Duffy

  Blessed, Able, Sense Of Humor

  "Chat transcript: Model lives with chronic disease". Live chat, www.cnn.com. May 27, 1999.

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• Everybody I talked to - from my friends to my family and some of the players - really gave me a lot of support from the start. And that certainly made me feel good about trying to come back and be one of the best again.

  Mario Lemieux

  Sports, Player, Support

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• Of course, my family has been a big reason for me to come back, especially my son who loves the game of hockey - he was a big reason for me coming back.

  Mario Lemieux

  Sports, Son, Hockey

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• The Hawaiian Islands were discovered by hardy Polynesian sailors, who crossed thousands of miles of open ocean in primitive canoes, braving violent storm-tossed seas for months at a time. My family and I arrived by modern commercial aviation, which was infinitely worse.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Ocean

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.107, Crown Archetype

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• If my son wants to be a pimp when he grows up, that's fine with me. I hope he's a good one and enjoys it and doesn't get caught. I'll support him in this. But if he wants to be a network administrator, he's out of the house and not part of my family.

  Steve Wozniak

  Jobs, Growing Up, Son

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• Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'être. Virtually all of our aunts and uncles had Ph.D.s in science or engineering, and it was taken for granted that the next generation of Chu's were to follow the family tradition. When the dust had settled, my two brothers and four cousins collected three MDs, four Ph.D.s and a law degree. I could manage only a single advanced degree.

  Steven Chu

  Brother, Cousin, Uncles

  Steven Chu - Biographical, www.nobelprize.org. 1997.

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• I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.

  Marisa Tomei

  Art, Artist, Exposed

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• Nothing's really a prized possession except my family, you know?

  James Hetfield

  Prized Possessions, Possession, Knows

  "The Hot Seat: James Hetfield". TimeOut interview, www.timeout.com. June 18, 2012.

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• It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was always moving. I had to meet new people all the time. And they'd laugh.

  Calista Flockhart

  Funny, Growing Up, Moving

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• I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India.

  Trevor McDonald

  Father, Hair, Black

  "Sir Trevor McDonald". Interview With Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2012.

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• When I went back to Shea last year it really hit me how much the fans care for me, it still gives me goose bumps. I want to do the right thing for them and my family.

  Dwight Gooden

  Years, Giving, Fans

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• I'm really still a child of the Forties. I still think about it a lot, about the repercussions of armed conflict. Until 1953 we had rationing. We couldn't buy meat, we couldn't buy pleasurable goods like cigarettes and sweets. I didn't starve - my family were lucky - but I knew what it was like standing in line waiting for foodstuffs.

  Eric Burdon

  Sweet, Children, Thinking

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