Immediate Family Quotes

• For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.

  Sidney Altman

  Opportunity, Land, Canada

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• I am truly a "lone traveler" and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart.

  Albert Einstein

  Family, Country, Home

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.9, Broadway Books

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• My immediate family is real close-knit.

  Kenan Thompson

  Real

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• For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me.

  Andrei Sakharov

  Lying, Pressure, Bears

  "Andrei Sakharov/ Biographical". www.nobelprize.org.

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• My sister, my mother and I are great friends. We have always valued our immediate family immensely, something we learned from my father.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Mother, Father, Great Friend

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• We all need that extra friend outside of our immediate family to talk about that extra stuff you wouldn't normally talk to your parents about.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Parent, Needs, Stuff

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• We all have our own purpose in life and I feel very strongly that I have a bigger purpose than giving to just my immediate family and friends.

  Natalia Vodianova

  Giving, Family And Friends, Purpose

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• Politicians are like God. No one believes in them, they haven't done anything for ages, and they give jobs to their immediate family

  Andy Zaltzman

  Jobs, Believe, Giving

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• Every gay person must come out. As difficult as it is, you must tell your immediate family. You must tell your relatives. You must tell your friends if indeed they are your friends. You must tell the people you work with. You must tell the people in the stores you shop in. Once they realize that we are indeed their children, that we are indeed everywhere, every myth, every lie, every innuendo will be destroyed once and all. And once you do, you will feel so much better

  Harvey Milk

  Children, Lying, Gay

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• I have members of my immediate family, and my wife's immediate family, who voted for Donald Trump, and now there's this gulf that I have no interest in bridging however much I love those people. It's almost like the Civil War.

  Steve Erickson

  War, People, Wife

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Father, Successful, Library

  "Anthony Horowitz: My family values". Interview With Liza Campbell, www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2010.

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• With my busy schedule, my friends consist of my immediate family and the people I work with!

  Heather Hemmens

  People, Schedules, Busy

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• Sometimes I live in fear. But when I have to take chances about people I love, relationships, my daughter and immediate family, those decisions are easy.

  Paul Walker

  Daughter, People, Decision

  Source: www.fanpop.com

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• In ascending order the qualities of Patriotism are: 1. To work, fight, or die for your own survival. 2. To work, fight, or die for your immediate family. 3. To work, fight, or die for a group, extended family, tribe, or clan. 4. To work, fight, or die for a group too large for all the individuals to know each other. 5. To work, fight, or die for a way of life.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Fighting, Order, Survival

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• For a while I felt like I spoke a different language than my immediate family. It wasn't until my teens that I met and got to know better members of my extended family (my cousin Alma in particular) that self- identified as artists. Something in us clicked together; in the way we thought, in the language we chose to use, in what we enjoyed. She helped me see and appreciate a lot both about myself and my loved ones.

  E.J. Bonilla

  Cousin, Artist, Self

  "LatinoBuzz Interview: E.J. Bonilla on His Hot-Blooded Performance in ‘The House That Jack Built’" by Juan Caceres, www.indiewire.com. November 21, 2015.

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• Taking chances for the people you care most about is easy. It's hard to take chances that might mean making bad decisions. But when I have to take chances about people I love, relationships, my daughter and immediate family, those decisions are easy. I make them without even thinking about it, it is usually something that just has to be done. You don't question anything, you just go for it.

  Paul Walker

  Daughter, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.fanpop.com

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• My sister is going to have a simple wedding. Just immediate family. And whoever the hell would want to marry her.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Family, Simple, Want

  Twitter post from Aug 06, 2010

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• My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Country

  Albert Einstein (1995). “Essential Einstein”, Pomegranate

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• When I was in the second grade, one of my teachers said, "Where are you going to find a husband? How are you going to find someone darker than you?" I was mortified. I remember seeing a commercial where a woman goes for an interview and doesn't get the job. Then she puts a cream on her face to lighten her skin, and she gets the job! This is the message: that dark skin is unacceptable. I definitely wasn't hearing this from my immediate family - my mother never said anything to that effect - but the voices from the television are usually much louder than the voices of your parents.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Mother, Teacher, Jobs

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• My support group - my mom, my dad, my sisters, my brothers-in-law, my immediate nieces and nephews, my immediate family like Aunt Donna - I know I can trust them. Most of the other people...they never called me before, they never said "I love you" before, they never wanted to take a picture with me at family reunions. It's like, don't do it now...You win the lottery and all of a sudden everybody's your best friend.

  Carrie Underwood

  Mom, Brother, Dad

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• It also comes down to parenting. It is important to know what your beliefs are, and that you have to stand up for them or you don't really believe in them. You know, my father and mother - in fact, every member of my immediate family - have worked for the federal government. Sometimes misunderstood is that I didn't stand up to overthrow the system.

  Edward Snowden

  Mother, Father, Believe

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• Sometimes I will spend two or three days not speaking to anyone outside of the immediate family when they come home, and then I find that I've been emailing like fury. Once you give in to that silence, it's quite nice.

  Anne Enright

  Nice, Home, Two

  Interview with Conan Putnam, www.believermag.com. January, 2014.

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• There's no real nationalism in this county. If you're poor in America, that's a criminal offense. You're not only a criminal for being poor, but you're also stupid and deficient. We don't have this national feeling of fraternity. We live in an individualist state where everyone hates everyone else, except your immediate family. We live in a mafia state.

  Ian Svenonius

  Real, Stupid, Hate

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility to language and communication, which was wonderful and something so many deaf people dont have.

  Shoshannah Stern

  Communication, Mean, People

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• Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it.

  Lynne Cheney

  Girl, Boys, Littles

  "The Truth & Lynne Cheney". Women's Quarterly Interview, Spring 2001.

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