Our Family Quotes - Page 6

• I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from "Alice in Wonderland," so we've got some strange names in our family.

  Brie Larson

  Names, Wonderland, Strange

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.

  Dan Lipinski

  Decision, Information, Care

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• I will probably only give birth to two and then the rest will come to our family however it happens. I can only hold two, but you never know. I really want a boy because boys love their mamas!

  Ana Ortiz

  Boys, Two, Giving

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• You hear about people your whole life, 'So-and-so has cancer,' and you're like, 'Wow, that's too bad,' and then most people tend to go about their day. But when someone tells you that it's your father or it's your family, that doesn't tend to go away.

  Jake Owen

  Cancer, Father, People

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• No industry is immune and no occupation is safe. All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our resilience and resourcefulness, our capacity to adapt and to rely upon ourselves and our families.

  Steven Pressfield

  Thinking, Rely Upon, Resilience

  "From Cabbie to Best-Selling Author: Steve Pressfield on ‘Turning Pro’" by Greg Clarkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 16, 2012.

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• What happens to each of my female heroes, certainly, is they find something bigger than themselves that they are honored to serve. It's not giving up your family.

  Tamora Pierce

  Giving Up, Hero, Female

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• My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that other people wouldn't have been able to do. But then again, we've also been able to live a normal life as well.

  Zara Phillips

  Brother, People, Normal

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• If you got problems like unemployment, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare and there's a guy that's always been there for you and for your family, then you say 'He's a nice guy. I don't know where he came from or how long he's been here, but Charlie Rangel's the man.' That's what I'm relying on.

  Charles Rangel

  Nice, Men, Medicare And Medicaid

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• In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing.

  Kiki Smith

  Mother, Art, Father

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• Many people don't have relationships to their siblings in adulthood, or they have superficial ones. It's sort of unfashionable, particularly in America, to be close to your family.

  Kiki Smith

  Sibling, America, People

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• Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger truth that your readers will recognize in their own lives. Think small and you'll wind up finding the big themes in your family saga.

  William Zinsser

  Memories, Writing, Thinking

  William Zinsser (2005). “Writing about Your Life: A Journey Into the Past”, p.7, Da Capo Press

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• Even then, our family was extraordinary, with ten kids.

  Mink Stole

  Kids, Extraordinary, Ten

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• A man who envies our family is a man who needs help.

  Yeardley Smith

  Men, Envy, Needs

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• There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years.

  Carol Vorderman

  Brother, Father, Years

  "Carol Vorderman: My family values". Interview with Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2011.

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• Nothing's worse than telling your family you got a pilot, hearing the pilot got picked up, and then finding out it's not in the fall lineup.

  Dreama Walker

  Fall, Pilots, Hearing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think a lot of the time, we don't give our family connections the kind of credit they deserve, like how important they are to us and how much they mean to us. I think family makes all the difference.

  JoBeth Williams

  Mean, Thinking, Differences

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What is our family? We touch our full hearts and see ourselves reflected whole in each other's eyes.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Family, Heart, Eye

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

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• If you want to make a positive impact, no matter how far-reaching, start at home. Treat your family members like treasures.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Home, Impact

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• Exhort your household to learn [the Ten Commandments] word for word, that they should obey God…For if you teach and urge your families things will go forward.

  Martin Luther

  Should, Teach, Ten Commandments

  Martin Luther (1961). “Martin Luther, selections from his writings”, Anchor Books

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• Believe me. Your hardship, tears and sorrows you are facing now are the training of your spirit. The strength you learn from there brings you more love and smiles in your future. Wherever you are, love all the people around you like your family. then you are not alone anymore.

  Hiroko Sakai

  Believe, People, Training

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• I'm 100 percent sure this is it. I know that I'll never play in the NHL again. It's not a hard decision. I think the hardest thing is you get a little emotional talking about your family. I couldn't have played any longer than I did and I accomplished what I wanted to.

  Chris Chelios

  Emotional, Thinking, Talking

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• For all the drama we all have with our families and all the tension and hostility, I couldn't have done this without my family. Being the people that they are - they're crazy - made it possible for me to be crazy and to live a lifestyle of my own design.

  Dan Colen

  Crazy, Drama, People

  Interview with Ryan McGinley, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2010.

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• You have to tease your family. You tease the ones that you're closest to.

  Parvesh Cheena

  Tease, Closest

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• I think we live in a world where the most important thing is daily life: sharing a space with your family, making meals, being with your people. It's not only the idea of privacy, it's the beauty of the moment, at a time in the world when everything goes really fast - too fast.

  Ana Tijoux

  Thinking, Ideas, Space

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• You don’t pick your family, you take what you’re given and you make the best of it.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Given, Make The Best Of It, Picks

  Joe Abercrombie (2009). “Before They Are Hanged: The First Law: Book Two”, p.207, Hachette UK

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