884 private quotes tagged family

“It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.” — Elizabeth Edwards

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“Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.” — Jessica Savitch

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“Family is not an important thing. It's everything.” — Michael J. Fox

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“If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.” — Temple Grandin

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“My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church materials that were created on our own personal time.” — Robert H. Schuller

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“My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay.” — Harvey Fierstein

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“The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.” — Desmond Tutu

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“My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family.” — P. J. O'Rourke

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“The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?” — Terry Pratchett

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“I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.” — Jim Carrey

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“Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.” — Richard Pryor

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“Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day.” — Emo Philips

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“I've been so fortunate in my life that my family has never been jealous of my success. They have shown true love and commitment to me by being supportive. They shared in it.” — Mike Krzyzewski

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“Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.” — Michelle Obama

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“The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.” — Lawrence G. Lovasik

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“I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.” — Gordon Ramsay

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“There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.” — Gerald R. Ford

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“The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.” — Tiger Woods

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“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.” — Calvin Trillin

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“When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.” — Jerry Falwell

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“Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.” — Dan Savage

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“A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.” — James H. Douglas

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“Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.” — Pope John XXIII

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“There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.” — Henry Louis Gates

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“I can't imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What's a home and family for if it's not the center of one's life?” — Loretta Young

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