884 private quotes tagged family

“There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.” — Christian Bale

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“Holidays are the best. I couldn't imagine being from a small family.” — Kim Kardashian

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“Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.” — Pope John Paul II

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“Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very, very good. Spending $1,000 for a ham sandwich would feel very, very bad. Spending $19,000 for a small family car would feel, well, more or less right. But as with physical pain, fiscal pain can depend on the individual, and everyone has a different threshold.” — Jeffrey Kluger

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“Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.” — Michael Sheen

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“Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.” — Chris Brown

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“The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.” — Ashley Montagu

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“Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care.” — Dave Obey

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“I am the family face flesh perishes, I live on.” — Thomas Hardy

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“The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.” — Elton John

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“I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.” — Theodore Bikel

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“When you go to the movies with your whole family, it's a different experience. For some reason, it's something that you're all doing together and you take away something special in that.” — Vin Diesel

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“I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.” — John le Carre

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“I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.” — Nastassja Kinski

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“I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.” — David Hockney

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“Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change.” — Eric McCormack

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“My family background was deeply Christian.” — Abbe Pierre

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“Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.” — Ang Lee

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“I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart.” — Tiger Woods

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“If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you'll have a good life.” — Adam Carolla

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“I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.” — Gene Tierney

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“Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.” — Barbara Bush

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“I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.” — Vera Farmiga

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“My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.” — David Ogden Stiers

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“I know some people say it's not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it's always worked so well for me.” — Kim Kardashian

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