884 private quotes tagged family

“If I were to retire, I would keep my family's interest in the company the same and say, Don't sell.” — Sheldon Adelson

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“Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more.” — Bonnie Raitt

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“Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.” — Rutherford B. Hayes

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“I've been through a lot of things in my personal and family life. That turned me into a fighter. I always strive to be the best I possibly can.” — Hope Solo

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“The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.” — Sergio Aragones

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“For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.” — Sidney Altman

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“I think, and I mean this sincerely, I was raised humbly. We were a lower middle income family and a household that was scrimping by at times. We were watching the dollar, stretching the dollar, and coupons. It was all those things.” — Bryan Cranston

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“Of course I regret not having been able to spend time with my family.” — Aung San Suu Kyi

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“It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.” — James Earl Jones

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“I work six months and get three or four with the family. I've stopped racing to get to the red light.” — Kyle Chandler

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“I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.” — T. Boone Pickens

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“I have a lovely family who supports me and it's great.” — Bryan Cranston

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“A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.” — Katharine Butler Hathaway

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“The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.” — C. J. Cherryh

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“The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.” — Ice Cube

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“But you know, we have a very normal family. We've had our ups and downs. You know, we've had our issues, but we've had great cause for celebration.” — Julius Erving

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“The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.” — Charles Eastman

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“Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out. They don't want to and they don't have the means to sustain it. That's where my heart is and that's what I think about all the time.” — Ice Cube

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“South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out.” — Ice Cube

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“Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.” — Cyril Connolly

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“A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.” — Anthony Trollope

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“I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children.” — Mary J. Blige

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“I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day.” — Mitch Albom

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“A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats.” — Jeffrey Kluger

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“I like being in kids' movies, and I like being in family movies.” — Bill Nighy

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