Our Family Quotes - Page 36

• Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their child.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Children, Lasts

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• Find out what it means to die - not physically, that's inevitable - but to die to everything that is known, to die to your family, to your attachments, to all the things that you have accumulated, the known, the known pleasures, the known fears. Die to that every minute and you will see what it means to die so that the mind is made fresh, young, and therefore innocent, so that there is incarnation not in a next life, but the next day.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Mean, Attachment, Next Day

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• I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.

  Joseph Murray

  Doctors, Childhood, Quality

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• You don't have to like your family, you don't even have to spend time with them, to know them right down to the bone.

  Tana French

  Bones, Like You, Spend Time

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• Some people have no respect whether you are with your family or not. That's the hardest part. I was shopping in a grocery store in Seattle looking for stuff for Nicholas. This guy kept following me with his cell phone video on.

  Joe Montana

  Phones, Cells, Shopping

  "Joe Montana finds empty nest in San Francisco". Interview with Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. July 6, 2010.

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• Imagine if Congress always put the interests of polluters ahead of the health of our families. Our rivers and lakes would be choked with sewage. Acid rain would pour down from smog-filled skies. Hundreds of thousands more of our neighbors, friends, and loved ones would be victims of cancer, heart disease, and asthma.

  Jeff Merkley

  Cancer, Rain, Heart

  "A Dangerous Proposal" by Sen. Jeff Merkley, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2010.

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• You know, when you're poor and you have a bunch of kids in your family, you don't know that everybody's not poor.

  Kenny Rogers

  Kids, Poor, Bunch

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• I think that freedom means freedom for everyone. As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish.

  Dick Cheney

  Daughter, Mean, Gay

  "Cheney Offers Support For Gay Marriage" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 02, 2009.

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• I learned that it's super important to stay true to yourself and your family. I've also learned that I've got a lot to learn about life, but that's just part of growing up.

  Miley Cyrus

  Growing Up, Important, Stay True To Yourself

  "Miley Cyrus Gives The Lowdown on Hannah Montana: The Movie". movieweb.com. August 13, 2009.

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• Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in terms of how much time you spend away from your family or the amount of time you spend doing the type of work that you maybe don't consider as fun to do as other type of work.

  Christophe Beck

  Fun, Personality, Quality

  Source: collider.com

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• In the end, money should serve something greater than just money. It should serve you, your family, the people you want to touch.

  Tony Robbins

  People, Want, Ends

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I've lived the American dream. I was born and raised on the farm, first in my family to graduate from college. I spent 13 years working in our family business.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Dream, College, Years

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• You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine.

  Cory Booker

  Dream, Children, Giving

  "Cory Booker Speech Text: Read The Democratic Convention Remarks". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 04, 2012.

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• My dad and all my family were into baseball. His brothers, my mom's brothers, my mom's father. Baseball was just always a part of our family.

  Mark Teixeira

  Mom, Baseball, Brother

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• Today I'm committed to take care of your families like I've taken care of mine. I want to make Mexico the best country to live in.

  Josefina Vazquez Mota

  Country, Taken, Mexico

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• The bonds that women share around the world, wherever we come from, they're very powerful and they have an ease of communication because we share those very important things of our families, our mothering, of improving opportunities for the next generation.

  Quentin Bryce

  Powerful, Communication, Opportunity

  "Stateline" with Eliza Blue, www.abc.net.au. March 19, 2010.

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• I firmly believe that if your environment works for you and your family, it translates into a better life.

  Candice Olson

  Believe, Environment, Better Life

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• ... In our family, if you said the words 'I feel,' they better be followed with 'hungry' or 'cold'. Because we didn't get personal, that's just how it was.

  Liz Murray

  Cold, Hungry, Said

  Liz Murray (2011). “Breaking Night”, p.7, Random House

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• I learned from Francis Ford Coppola to treat the company like your family.

  Mary Stuart Masterson

  Like You, Treats, Company

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• Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because were from North England.

  Tony Scott

  England

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• Still putting out the O'Reilly fires of me being a traitor and using Casey's name dishonorably, my in-laws sent out a press statement disagreeing with me in strong terms; which is totally okay with me, because they barely knew Casey. We have always been on separate sides of the fence politically and I have not spoken to them since the election when they supported the man who is responsible for Casey's death. The thing that matters to me is that our family - Casey's dad and my other 3 kids are on the same side of the fence that I am.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Strong, Dad, Kids

  "Camp Casey: Day 6" by Cindy Sheehan, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 12, 2005.

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• Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.

  Sam Sheppard

  Father, Exhausted

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• Our family is very tight. Just like any family, we have our ups and downs, but the love is always going to be there. I try to go to my parents house as much as I can.

  Tahj Mowry

  Love Is, House, Parent

  "'Smart Guy' Tahj Mowry: From Child Star To Adult Actor". Interview with Brooke Obie, www.ebony.com. October 8, 2012.

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• As a conscious rap artist, you should not want to be in a gangster market. You should be trying to establish your own market, create a place where you can be yourself and make some money and feed your family.

  KRS-One

  Being Yourself, Rap, Artist

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• Be great, make the best life for your family!

  Soulja Boy

  Twitter post from Jun 5, 2012

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