Our Family Quotes - Page 26

• ...our family is white as far back on the family tree as I've ever looked, and I guess I picture people white white white unless someone tells me otherwise

  E. Lockhart

  White, People, Tree

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 1: The Boyfriend List”, p.11, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• I liked having some time to myself. Our family was such a close one, you could get smothered. Of course, we didn't always agree with one another. Sometimes I quarreled with my brother and sisters, but I couldn't remember hating anyone for more than five minutes.

  Gloria Whelan

  Brother, Hate, Remember

  Gloria Whelan (2009). “Summer of the War”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

  Tennessee Williams

  Way, Apologizing

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• In a library, you can find small miracles and truth, and you might find something that will make you laugh so hard that you will get shushed, in the friendliest way. I have found sanctuary in libraries my whole life, and there is sanctuary there now, from the war, from the storms of our families and our own minds. Libraries are like mountains or meadows or creeks: sacred space. So this afternoon, I'll walk to the library.

  Anne Lamott

  War, Space, Laughing

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.143, Penguin

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• We've pretended too much in our family, Luke, and hidden far too much. I think we're all going to pay a high price for our inability to face the truth.

  Pat Conroy

  Thinking, Inability, Pay

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.40, Open Road Media

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• Inside my head I carry: my baby goat, my baby brother, my ama's face, our family's future. My bundle is light. My burden is heavy.

  Patricia McCormick

  Baby, Brother, Light

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• We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.

  Philippa Gregory

  Queens, Might, England

  Philippa Gregory (2011). “Philippa Gregory's Tudor Court 6-Book Boxed Set: The Constant Princess, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Queen's Fool, The Virgin's Lover, and The Other Queen”, p.800, Simon and Schuster

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• He touched the screen as if trying to reach through with his hand. "You're a wonderful young lady. I don't tell you that often enough. You remind me so much of your mother. She'd be proud. And Grandpa Tom" --he chuckled-- "he always said you'd be the most powerful voice in our family. You're going to outshine me some day, you know. They're going to remember me as Piper McLean's father, and that's the best legacy I can imagine.

  Rick Riordan

  Mother, Powerful, Father

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• I mean, it's like we all get our raw materials from our families―but it's up to us whether we build bridges or bombs.

  Neal Shusterman

  Mean, Bridges, Raw Materials

  Neal Shusterman (2006). “The Schwa was here”

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• I warn you, Eragon, beware of whom you fall in love with, for fate seems to have a morbid interest in our family.

  Christopher Paolini

  Falling In Love, Fate, Morbid

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.2145, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporadic, our intimacies so 'in-between' things and often so utilitarian, that there are few places where we can feel truly safe.

  Henri Nouwen

  Distance, Emotional, Safe

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• After doing this work or the past twelve years and watching scarcity ride roughshod over our families, organizations, and communities, I'd say the one thing we have in common is that we're sick of feeling afraid. we want to dare greatly. We're tired of the national conversation centering on "What should we fear" and "Who should we blame?" We all want to be brave.

  Brené Brown

  Fear, Tired, Past

  Brené Brown (2013). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.22, Penguin UK

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• If we can't respect the way we earn it, money has no value. If we can't use it to make life better for our families and loved ones, money has no purpose.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Purpose, Use, Way

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• That's because we keep weapons int the attic, silly boy. Do you think this is the first time monsters have attacked our family?" "Weapons," Frank grumbled. "Right. I've never handled weapons before." Grandmother's nostrils flared. "Was that sarcasm, Fai Zhang?" "Yes, Grandmother." "Good. There may be hope for you yet.

  Rick Riordan

  Silly, Grandmother, Sarcasm

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• Our whole family thrives under pressure. It's like our family motto or something. Apart from my brother Peter, of course. He had a nervous break down. But the rest of us.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Brother, Pressure, Nervous

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• And you love Sophie." Gideon's mouth tensed. "She's a mundane and a servant," said Gabriel. "I don't know what you expect to come of it, Gideon." "Nothing," Gideon said roughly. "I expect nothing. But the fact that you believe I should shows that our family brought us up to believe that we should do right only if some reward was the result.

  Cassandra Clare

  Believe, Gideon, Gabriel

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• When we return, I will put you forward for Ascension,” Charlotte finished. “I will speak out for her case as well,” Gideon said. “After all, I have my father’s place on the Council—his friends will listen to me; they still owe loyalty to our family—and besides, how else can we be married?” “What?” said Gabriel with a wild hand gesture that accidentally flipped the nearest plate onto the floor, where it shattered. “Married?” said Henry. “You’re marrying your father’s friends on the Council? Which of them?

  Cassandra Clare

  Loyalty, Father, Speaks Out

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• Here and gone. That’s what it is to be human, I think—to be both someone and no one at once, to hold a particular identity in the world (our names, our place of origins, our family and affectional ties) and to feel that solid set of ties also capable of dissolution, slipping away, as we become moments of attention.

  Mark Doty

  Thinking, Names, Ties

  Mark Doty (2001). “Still Life with Oysters and Lemon”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Beatrice. We should think of our family. But. But we must also think of ourselves.

  Veronica Roth

  Thinking, Divergent, Should

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• ...we should be grateful for them because without our family—the ancestors we descend from, the cousins we see once a year, the loves our lives we see every day—life is pretty boring.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Cousin, Grateful, Years

  Ellen DeGeneres (2011). “Seriously...I'm Kidding”, p.34, Hachette UK

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• Girls, I need to tell you some things about our family," Sabrina said. "Have you ever heard of the Brothers Grimm?

  Michael Buckley

  Girl, Brother, Needs

  Michael Buckley (2012). “The Sisters Grimm: Book Nine: The Council of Mirrors”, p.193, Abrams

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• The most important person to thank is...my mother. She gave me four golden rules to live by: be a proud black man, take care of your family, make education a priority, and try to do the right thing.

  Edward B. Lewis

  Inspirational, Mother, Men

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• You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you.- Desmond Tutu
  In the end, kids won't remember that fancy toy or game you bought for them, they will remember the time you spent with them.

  Kevin Heath

  Kids, Parenting, Games

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• Irreverence ran on both sides of our family...my parents brought me up to think we could all change the world.

  Richard Branson

  Change, Thinking, Parent

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• Together, let us make this a new beginning. Let us make a commitment to care for the needy, to teach our children the values and the virtues handed down to us by our families, to have the courage to defend those values and the willingess to sacrifice for them. Let us pledge to restore, in our time, the American spirit of voluntary service, of cooperation, of private and community initiative, a spirit that flows like a deep and mighty river through the history of our nation.

  Ronald Reagan

  Education, Children, New Beginnings

  1980 Republican National Convention Acceptance Address, delivered 17 July 1980, Detroit, MI

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