884 private quotes tagged family

“I want my family to resemble the family I came from.” — Katherine Heigl

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“Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.” — Jerry B. Jenkins

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“When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.” — Lauryn Hill

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“We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.” — Jonathan Safran Foer

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“The town, the team, it's a family. That has helped. For some people who have had to deal with some of the problems I have had to deal with don't have football as an out.” — Brett Favre

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“This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.” — Adam Sandler

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“I've always wanted to do a family movie.” — Adam Sandler

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“All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.” — Amy Winehouse

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“Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.” — Bruce Barton

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“You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.” — Robert Benchley

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“My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.” — Wentworth Miller

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“We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.” — John Sculley

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“If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.” — Bridget Moynahan

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“A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed, and strong families with a man and a woman - bonded together for life - always have been, and always will be, the key to such families.” — Jim Bunning

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“The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.” — Christopher Lasch

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“How do you rebel in a family of rebels?” — Nicolas Cage

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“I am like a kid. I tell my family and friends I'm like a kid.” — Shahrukh Khan

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“My whole family is very sarcastic and constantly making jokes.” — Emily Deschanel

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“If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and then see who shows up for the funeral.” — Gregory Nunn

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“I'm the git in the family.” — Clive Owen

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“I do come from a strong family.” — Arlen Specter

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“A rumor that followed me forever was that my family was in the mafia. For years I had to live with it. They'd call me the mafia princess, so I rolled with it for the rest of high school. People even joke about it today.” — Giuliana Rancic

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“Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.” — Christopher Lasch

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“The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.” — Christopher Lasch

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“When I go back to family reunions everybody goes, 'Hey cousin! Hey Auntie!' And I'm like, 'Okay I don't know you, I have no idea who you are.' I am auntie and cousin for so many and even the ones in prison call me collect. And I'll be like, 'Which of my family members are giving you this phone number?'” — Sherri Shepherd

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