884 private quotes tagged family

“The greenest home is the one you don't build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with another family and share a house that's already built. Better yet, live in the forest and eat whatever the squirrels don't want.” — Scott Adams

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“It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary.” — Mary J. Blige

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“I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.” — Alan Dershowitz

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“Going home and spending time with your family and your real friends keeps you grounded.” — Jennifer Ellison

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“Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.” — Daisaku Ikeda

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“A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.” — Walter Bagehot

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“I know I'm talented, but I wasn't put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it's not where it begins and ends.” — Amy Winehouse

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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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“The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.” — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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“It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.” — Patricia Heaton

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“When you live on the road, going home is a place to escape and just be with your family to unwind.” — Jonathan Davis

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“I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.” — Newt Gingrich

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“I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!” — Shirley Manson

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“The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.” — Susan Sontag

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“When I did 'E.T.,' it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of 'This is what I want to do with my life and this is where I'm going to survive.'” — Drew Barrymore

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“I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.” — Sidney Poitier

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“Being a Barrymore didn't help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me.” — Drew Barrymore

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“And so I look at it as a relationship that I have with him that I want to give him the honor and glory anytime I have the opportunity. And then right after I give him the honor and glory, I always try to give my teammates the honor and glory. And that's how it works because Christ comes first in my life, and then my family, and then my teammates.” — Tim Tebow

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“As a child, the family that I had and the love I had from my two parents allowed me to go ahead and be more aggressive, to search and to take risks knowing that, if I failed, I could always come home to a family of love and support.” — Tiger Woods

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“I really have created a family. I work with the people I love, I travel with them, I make films with them, and I'm in an office with them. So in a weird way - I know I haven't birthed a child - I feel that I'm a part of creating a family. It's a tribe. I love that word.” — Drew Barrymore

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“The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars - BMW's mostly - for myself and my family.” — Tom Felton

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“If you have issues with family, friends, and people at work, try and solve these issues head on so you can move on and concentrate on having the life you want. Think about what you can do so that you are happy with yourself - for instance, eating right to feel great and energetic.” — 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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