884 private quotes tagged family

“I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.” — Nadia Giosia

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“Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.” — B. B. King

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“The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.” — Garrett Hardin

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“You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family.” — Sandra Bullock

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“Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right?” — Katherine Heigl

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“Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.” — David Ogilvy

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“Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone's grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.” — Adam Sandler

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“Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.” — Robert Cormier

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“There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.” — Jacqueline Bisset

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“Outside of being home with my family, I prefer a crowd.” — Clive Owen

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“Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.” — Clare Boothe Luce

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“I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.” — LaToya Jackson

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“I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.” — LaToya Jackson

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“People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.” — LaToya Jackson

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“My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.” — Mike Honda

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“A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.” — Christopher Lasch

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“I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.” — Ani DiFranco

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“I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.” — Jonathan Safran Foer

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“If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.” — Kanye West

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“I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.” — Vivienne Westwood

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“For me, family always comes first I would do anything to protect them.” — Mark Wahlberg

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“I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.” — Neil Gaiman

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“The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.” — Heinrich Heine

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“Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have.” — Mark Cuban

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“We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.” — Harold Ramis

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