884 private quotes tagged family

“Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness.” — Alan Thicke

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“If you wish to spare yourself and your venerable family, give heed to my advice with the ear of intelligence. If you do not, you will see what God has willed.” — Hulagu Khan

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“I'm still very connected to my family, to the world I grew up in. I understand what it means to be afraid that you can't pay a doctor's bill. Or to have to make the choice between buying a band uniform for a seventh-grader and making the insurance payment on time. That will never leave me. It was how I lived until I was well into my adult years.” — Elizabeth Warren

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“I don't have a saviour or a royal family.” — John Malkovich

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“Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.” — Dennis Prager

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“Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.” — Dennis Prager

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“My work's never been accepted by my family, but it's something I'll always carry on with.” — Johnny Vegas

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“For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.” — Dennis Prager

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“It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.” — Leon Kass

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“I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family.” — Steven Patrick Morrissey

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“My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.” — Emeril Lagasse

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“The purpose of the Seder to my mind is to inspire conversations with your family about the human drama and hopefully transmit values to the next generation. I've always felt like this could be better.” — Jonathan Safran Foer

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“I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.” — Bruce Springsteen

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“I'm happiest with my family around me.” — Amy Winehouse

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“We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.” — Lawrence Welk

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“Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction.” — Christopher Lasch

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“It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits.” — Martha Plimpton

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“The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.” — Annie Leibovitz

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“You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.” — Adriana Trigiani

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“A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again that's not the case in my family.” — Chaz Bono

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“I am a big fan of smelly cheeses but the rest of the family don't seem to be particularly keen on them.” — Johnny Vegas

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“I have a mother that's very strong and family that surround me and constantly tell me they love me.” — Whitney Houston

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“When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.” — Sachin Tendulkar

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“I can't move back to England. My home is in France now. I'd love to but I can't. My family's all there now.” — Kristin Scott Thomas

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“It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.” — Martha Plimpton

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