Different Families Quotes

• The etiquette of intimacy is very different from the etiquette of formality, but manners are not just something to show off to the outside world. If you offend the head waiter, you can always go to another restaurant. If you offend the person you live with, it's very cumbersome to switch to a different family.

  Judith Martin

  Family, Different, World

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• I could hear you, talking to the daffodils and tulips, whispering to the fairies that lived inside their petals. Each separate flower had a different family inside it.

  Lucy Christopher

  Flower, Talking, Different

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.90, Scholastic Inc.

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• I'm not religious, and I feel that has to do with me being uprooted so many times in my life that I've explored many religions and sentiments from many different families basically across the globe.

  Masiela Lusha

  Religious, Different, Feels

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• My favorite species to study would be Cobras and King Cobras which are two different families. They're very intelligent, and they're beautiful looking animals. Where they come from are countries and regions which I spend a lot of time in - South East Asia and India, those are places I go to fairly often, and so the cobras are my main interest. It's not a snake I can maintain, but when I see them in zoos and what not, I find them interesting.

  Henry Rollins

  Beautiful, Country, Kings

  "Henry Rollins and a Whole Lot of Snakes". Interview with Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. April 29, 2011.

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• My children grew up very resourceful and strong in spite of them having to live with different families and that I had to drag them all over the country with me.

  Dolores Huerta

  Country, Strong, Children

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think.

  Sarah Dessen

  Growing Up, School, Thinking

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.31, Penguin

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• When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Dream, Father, Men

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• All that five thousand kids lived in those five thousand houses, owned by guys that got off the train. The houses looked so much alike that, time and time again, the kids went home by mistake to different houses and different families. Nobody ever noticed.

  Ken Kesey

  Mistake, Home, Kids

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.123, Hamilton Books

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• It's been scattered and I had to follow leads. Some stuff was with different family members in various drawers. I find out about more stuff and more stuff [over time]. I won't call it a treasure hunt, but it's like an old Western movie we're you're onto one thing and it turns into another.

  Aaron Brookner

  Treasure, Stuff, Members

  "William Burroughs Documentary: Howard Brookner’s Movie Re-Released After Decades Out Of Print". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• To go back to my childhood, I experienced lots of different family cultures, all the while feeling like none of them were mine.

  Lily King

  Childhood, Feelings, Different

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Complementary currencies work in addition to existing money, rather than replacing existing, official money. There are whole different families of complementary currencies. One of them is local currencies. One is regional currencies. Another is functional currencies. Another is social-purpose currencies.

  Bernard Lietaer

  Different, Purpose, Currency

  Interview with Tracy Fernandez Rysavy, www.greenamerica.org. 2009.

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• I want to see America thrive. I want to see all different families here succeed.

  Grace Meng

  America, Different, Want

  "Congresswoman-Elect Grace Meng On 'Girl Power'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 9, 2012.

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• and there had been times when he wished he'd been born into a different family.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Different, Born

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• I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would be easier if you didnt exist.

  Jennifer Egan

  Two, Different, Would Be

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• We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little - my brother and me and my parents. It was hell, but it was a common thing. My father was not general or admiral, but he was colonel. He was teaching in military academy military topography.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Brother, Father, Military

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