My Family Quotes - Page 9

• My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Race, Way, Sense Of Humor

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• Dearest Charles-- I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to you as I am mourning for my lost innocence. It never looked like living. The doctors despaired of it from the start... I am never quite alone. Members of my family keep turning up and collecting luggage and going away again, but the white raspberries are ripe. I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits. Love or what you will. S.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Love, Writing, Italian

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• We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped anything. I was terrified of unwittingly leaving behind a scrap of paper on which were written all my private desires and humiliations. The fact that no such scrap of paper existed, that I did not even keep a diary or write letters except bland, earnest, falsely cheerful ones to my family (We lost to St. Francis in soccer, but I think we’ll win our game this Saturday; we are working on self-portraits in art class, and the hardest part for me is the nose) never decreased my fear.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Soccer, Art, Writing

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2005). “Prep: a novel”

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• When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.

  Robert Frost

  Baseball, Waste, Poet

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• While he bore no real resemblance to anyone in my family, his features were a collection of my mother's and father's best attributes, with a few of Gregory Peck's thrown in.

  Lisa Lutz

  Mother, Father, Real

  Lisa Lutz (2011). “Lisa Lutz Spellman Series E-Book Box Set: The Spellman Files, Curse of the Spellmans, Revenge of the Spellmans, The Spellmans Strike Again”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• My sisters and I stand, arms around each other, laughind and wiping the tears from each others eyes. The flash of the Polaroid goes off and my family hands me the snapshot. My sisters and I watch quietly together, eager to see what develops. Ghe grey-greensurface changes to the bright colors of our three images, sharpening and deepening all at once. And although we don't speak, I know we all see it: Together we look like our mother. Her same eyes, her same mouth, open in suprise to see, her long-cherished wish.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Eye, Hands

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• And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.

  Alice Hoffman

  Ideas, Hatred, Done

  Alice Hoffman (2007). “Incantation”

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• My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all seemed to be recessive in me.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Ambition, Expectations, Achievement

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.165, Vintage

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• Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one.

  Ayn Rand

  Thinking, Long, Kind

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.68, Hamilton Books

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• I was abused my family was the "brady bunch

  Dave Pelzer

  Brady Bunch, Bunch, Brady

  Dave Pelzer (1993). “A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive”, p.17, Health Communications, Inc.

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• As she stood in the darkened room and watched my sister and father, I knew one of things that heaven meant. I had a choice, and it was not to divide my family in my heart.

  Alice Sebold

  Father, Heart, Choices

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.113, Pan Macmillan

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• I tell the kids that, even in a childhood marked by despair and deprivation, I knew that no matter what happened, I still had my family, or at least the remnants of a family ripped apart by divorce and then glued back together in various odd arrangements through a series of ill- advised remarriages. It was good to know I had a solid foundation.

  Bill Bryson

  Kids, Divorce, Childhood

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• You saw we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Children, Honor, Saws

  Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill (2006). “The Hiding Place”, p.115, Chosen Books

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• This, milord, is my family's axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade. And sometimes it has required a new handle, new designs on the metalwork, a little refreshing of the ornamentation . . . but is this not the nine hundred-year-old axe of my family? And because it has changed gently over time, it is still a pretty good axe, y'know. Pretty good.

  Terry Pratchett

  Years, Design, Littles

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• Sometimes my need to love hurts-- myself, my family, my cause. Is there a cure? Of course. But I refuse. Refuse to stop loving, to stop caring. To avoid those tears, that pain...To err on the side of passion is human and right and the only way I'll live.

  Jon Krakauer

  Hurt, Pain, Passion

  Jon Krakauer (2010). “Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman”, p.111, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Cal says that humans are made from the nuclear ash of dead stars. He says that when I die, I'll return to dust, glitter,rain. If thats true, I want to be buried right here under this tree. Its roots will reach into the soft mess of my body and suck me dry. I'll be re-formed as apple blossom. I'll drift down in the spring like confetti and cling to my family's shoes. They'll carry me in their pockets to help them sleep. What dreams will they have then?

  Jenny Downham

  Dream, Stars, Spring

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• I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but I've come to learn that if I am going to take revenge, in that process I will kill another person whose family will want revenge; then revenge and revenge and revenge will never come to an end.

  Ishmael Beah

  Revenge, Army, Insightful

  Ishmael Beah (2007). “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”, p.199, Macmillan

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• So you actually need spectacles,” Leo finally said. “Of course I do,” Marks said crossly. “Why would I wear spectacles if I didn’t need them?” “I thought they might be part of your disguise.” “My disguise?” “Yes, Marks, disguise. A noun describing a means of concealing someone’s identity. Often used by clowns and spies. And now apparently governesses. Good God, can anything be ordinary for my family?

  Lisa Kleypas

  Mean, Spy, Identity

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• Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to me a rather prurient way, whether I myself or my family have 'ever been threatened' by jihadists. My answer is that yes, I have, and so has everyone else in the audience, if they have paid enough attention to the relevant bin-Ladenist broadcasts to notice the fact.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Writing, Facts, Attention

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.1497, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Your trying to take them away from me, and I can't let you do that.I'm not ready to let go." "Exactly what am I taking away?" "My family." "Brenna..." She wouldn't let him continue. "You are trying to take them away, aren't you? And if you succeed, what will I have left?" "Me.

  Julie Garwood

  Letting Go, Trying, Succeed

  Julie Garwood (1997). “The Wedding”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• Did you really JUST fall, Jeffrey? Why does everybody in my family talk in these dramatic CAPITAL LETTERS all the time? Why am I the only calm one?

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Fall, Doe, Letters

  Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.15, Scholastic Inc.

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• It's funny how in that moment I see things clearly. Am I beaten down? Yes. Have I allowed myself to become a victim? Somewhat. Am I afraid? Always. Does some part of me still long to fly away from this place? Absolutely. But I can't leave. Sam and I have built a life for Joy. It isn't perfect, but it's a life. My family's happiness means more to me that starting over again. Page 210

  Lisa See

  Mean, Long, Starting Over

  Lisa See (2009). “Shanghai Girls: A Novel”, p.210, Random House

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• I won't talk to you about my family and you won't talk to me about yours. Family talk is either boring or self-pitying. Or it's Gothic, like a Faulkner novel. Who needs to talk about it? It's enough to live it.

  Chaim Potok

  Self, Needs, Gothic

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• Then I know Prim is right, that Snow cannot afford to waste Peeta's life, especially now, while the Mockingjay causes so much havoc. He's killed Cinna already. Destroyed my home. My family, Gale, and even Haymitch are out of his reach. Peeta's all he has left. "So, what do you think they'll do to him?" I ask. Prim sound about a thousand years old when she speaks."Whatever it takes to break you.

  Suzanne Collins

  Home, Thinking, Years

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.151, Scholastic Inc.

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• There are none of you, good doctors, could cope with my family anyway.

  Roger Zelazny

  Doctors, Good Doctors

  Roger Zelazny (1978*). “Nine princes in Amber. The guns of Avalon”

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