Our Family Quotes - Page 9

• We have created a democracy that links us all, and with it come not only opportunities but obligations. There are no gates or walls high enough. There are no bank accounts large enough to buy you and your family and your friends protection from the fear and hunger of those left behind or to isolate you from the consequences of growing social inequities. We are all in this boat together. And the fact that there isn't a hole at your end of the boat doesn't mean you are safe.

  Arianna Huffington

  Wall, Mean, Opportunity

  Arianna Huffington (2004). “Fanatics & Fools: How Politicians are Betraying the American People”, Miramax Books

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• You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.

  Rumer Godden

  Family, Friends, Nuisance

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• Generally if you're a daughter in a Mexican family, no one wants to tell you anything; they tell you the healthy lies about your family.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Daughter, Lying, Mexican

  "PBS NewsHour" with Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. October 14, 2002.

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• The reputations of the Lord's people should be very precious in our sight...We may ourselves one of these dark days need forbearance and silence from our brethren, let us render it cheerfully to those who require it now. Be this our family rule, and our personal bond: Speak evil of no man.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Dark, Men, Sight

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• Fathers need to be tough and tender...you be tough for your family, be tender with your family. You protect them, and you be a safe place.

  Mark Driscoll

  Father, Safe, Needs

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• Why is it that nobody cries out, nobody spits in their faces, nobody jumps at their throats? We doff our caps to the S.S. men returning from the little wood; if our name is called out we obediently go with them to die, and we do nothing. We starve, we are drenched by rain, we are torn from our families. What is this mystery? This strange power of one man over another? This insane passivity that cannot be overcome? Our only strength is our great number; the gas chambers cannot accommodate all of us.

  Tadeusz Borowski

  Rain, Men, Names

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• [On Jung's theory of psychological types:] My mother, Katharine C. Briggs, introduced it into our family and made it a part of our lives. She and I waited a long time for someone to devise an instrument that would reflect not only one's preference for extraversion or introversion but one's preferred kind of perception and judgment as well. In the summer of 1942 we undertook to do it ourselves.

  Isabel Briggs Myers

  Summer, Mother, Long

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• I came from a folk-family background. Although we weren't really the all-singing, all-dancing-around-the-piano folkies or anything like that, there is that idea of singing and playing with your parents and your family and your cousins.

  Teddy Thompson

  Cousin, Piano, Ideas

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• He comes to us in the brokenness of our health, in the shipwreck of our family lives, in the loss of all possible peace of mind, even in the very thick of our sins. He saves us in our disasters, not from them. He emphatically does not promise to meet only the odd winner of the self-improvement lottery. He meets us all in our endless and inescapable losing.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Loss, Self, Promise

  Robert Farrar Capon (1996). “The Astonished Heart: Reclaiming the Good News from the Lost-and-found of Church History”, p.15, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• In Community of Caring, we believe the quality of caring we give to our parents, to our brothers and sisters, to our families, to our friends and neighbors, and to the poor and the powerless endows a life, a community with respect, hope and happiness.

  Eunice Kennedy Shriver

  Brother, Believe, Caring

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• All I would say is, that I can go abroad without your family coming forward to favour me, - in short, with a parting Shove of their cold shoulders; and that, upon the whole, I would rather leave England with such impetus as I possess, than derive any acceleration of it from that quarter.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Interesting, England

  Charles Dickens (1850). “The Personal History of David Copperfield”, p.548

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• There is something eternal in the very nature of writing, as is so graphically illustrated by the scriptures themselves. In a very real sense, our properly written histories are a very important part of our family scripture and become a great source of spiritual strength to us and to our posterity

  John H. Groberg

  Spiritual, Real, Writing

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• Liz Taylor was an amazing woman and screen legend. She was an incredible friend to my brother, at his side through some of his most difficult times and of course loved by his children and our family. She will live on in our hearts forever, my prayers go out to her family.

  LaToya Jackson

  Brother, Prayer, Children

  "Debbie Reynolds, Madonna Remember Elizabeth Taylor" by Mark Cina, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 23, 2011.

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• When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later.

  Noah Baumbach

  Language, Embarrassed

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• If you don't connect yourself to your family and to the world in some fashion, through your job or whatever it is you do, you feel like you're disappearing, you feel like you're fading away, you know? I felt like that for a very very long time. Growing up, I felt like that a lot. I was just invisible; an invisible person. I think that feeling, wherever it appears, and I grew up around people who felt that way, it's an enormous source of pain; the struggle to make yourself felt and visible. To have some impact, and to create meaning for yourself, and for the people you come in touch with.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Fashion, Jobs, Growing Up

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• Wake up! No one is going to save you. No one is going to take care of your family or your retirement. No one is going to “make things” work out for you. The only way to do so is to utilize every moment of every day at 10X levels.

  Grant Cardone

  Retirement, Work Out, Wake Up

  FaceBook post by Grant Cardone from Feb 21, 2016

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• Go, all of you poor people, in the name of God the Creator, and let him forever be your guide. And henceforth, do not be beguiledby these idle and useless pilgrimages. See to your families, and work, each one of you, in your vocation, raise your children, and live as the good Apostle Paul teaches you.

  Francois Rabelais

  Wisdom, Children, Names

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• Everybody wants to make as much money as possible. Take care of your family. It's not about the money; it's about status. I want to be ranked amongst all the players. I don't want to just have all this money. I want to be that guy.

  Lance Stephenson

  Player, Guy, Care

  "Lance Stephenson Opens Up: Hornets Fallout, Clippers Future and Big Contracts". Interview with Jared Zwerling, bleacherreport.com.

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• If you are active online or texting, there is a good chance I could look at what you do and know more about you than your family.

  Mark Cuban

  Looks, Texting, Chance

  "What Scares Mark Cuban". Interview with Jeff Weiss, www.menshealth.com. September 12, 2004.

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• It doesn't matter where you came from, it doesn't matter how poor you are, it doesn't matter where your family was. It all doesn't matter. You can achieve anything if you have really clear goals and if you work really hard to learn what you need to learn.

  Brian Tracy

  Clear Goals, Needs, Matter

  Source: productivemag.com

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• When you are not making the present moment into a means to an end, you also are not making every human being you meet - in your business and even at home, in your family - into a means to an end.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Home, Mean, Moments

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I believe everything is energy. I believe that the meal you serve yourself, you prepare, is energy. And if you serve it to your family, it's your gift of energy to them.

  Maya Angelou

  Believe, Energy, Meals

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When you have a family as big as mine, there are many things that affect my family members, in many different ways. It could be high blood pressure, it could be cholesterol, it could be obesity, it could be sleep deprivation or sleep apnea. An illness is an illness, especially if it affects younger kids. Illnesses affect your family and they impact you because you want to do the best you can to help your family member become more healthy, just as my family members want me to be healthy.

  Queen Latifah

  Sleep, Kids, Blood

  "Queen Latifah, Neil Meron, and Craig Zadan Talk STEEL MAGNOLIAS and How the Lifetime Version Is Different from the Original". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 4, 2012.

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• People should see your faith. If all you do is talk about your faith and people don't see it, but they ought to see it in the way you treat your family, you treat your friends, you treat your community.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  People, Community, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Home to me is when someone comes up to me and says, "Can I get a selfie?" No. It's where your wife and your family are. It's the emotional place where you feel like you're not away from it.

  Steve Martin

  Home, Emotional, Wife

  "Steve Martin, Rihanna and Jim Parsons Talk HOME; Plus Our Thoughts on the First Footage From the New DreamWorks Animation Film". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 24, 2014.

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