884 private quotes tagged family

“When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.” — Iain Duncan Smith

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“In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.” — Billy Corgan

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“Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.” — Ulysses S. Grant

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“Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.” — Billy Joel

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“I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.” — Al Sharpton

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“I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.” — Orlando Bloom

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“My family were from Jamaica.” — Diane Abbott

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“But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!” — Stephen Covey

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“And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.” — Christopher Hitchens

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“I'm thankful to my family, friends, and fans for all of their support.” — Serena Williams

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“Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family. I've always been attracted to temporary families. They tend to be lost characters.” — Gus Van Sant

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“I had no fun. My family was too serious.” — Miuccia Prada

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“There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.” — Gordon Ramsay

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“My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.” — Vivien Leigh

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“One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live.” — Nik Wallenda

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“Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.” — Serena Williams

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“Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it.” — John Ratzenberger

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“I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.” — Michael J. Fox

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“Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.” — Mario Andretti

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“People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.” — Keith Henson

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“The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.” — Christopher Lasch

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“I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me.” — Ted Nugent

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“When I do get the chance I just love to hang around at home with friends and family.” — Delta Goodrem

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“I love when I go out and I have my hair and makeup done, but I also like it when I'm just with the family because that's real.” — Heidi Klum

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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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