About Family Quotes - Page 6

• Simi? What was it you told me once about families? We have three kinds of family. Those we are born to, those who are born to us, and those we let into our hearts.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Heart, Inspiring Love, Three

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• I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and danger - soccer moms and regular dads and husbands who might have to rescue their daughters or who are, say, hedge fund managers and have one foot on the sidelines watching their kids and the other in nefarious cover-ups and conspiracies.

  Andrew Gross

  Soccer, Mom, Daughter

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• In the case of 'Ocean at the End of the Lane,' it's a book about helplessness. It's a book about family, it's a book about being 7 in a world of people who are bigger than you, and more dangerous, and stepping into territory that you don't entirely understand.

  Neil Gaiman

  Ocean, Book, People

  "Gaiman's New 'Ocean' Is No Kiddie Pool". Interview with Scott Simon, www.wwno.org. June 15, 2013.

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• I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.

  Jodi Picoult

  Drama, Writing, Able

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• You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it's all about family.

  Rod Stewart

  Family, The End Of The Day, Wonder

  "Rod Stewart: I burst into tears when Penny said she was pregnant". www.mirror.co.uk. November 1, 2010.

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• what shall we drink to?" "How about family?" Stacy said, showing up just in time to pour a fourth shot. "To those who are here, those who are gone, and those who are lost." and she clicked glasses with mom

  Kristin Hannah

  Mom, Glasses, Gone

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• I love to see my family together. That's what life is about. It's about family.

  Ja Rule

  Together, Life Is, My Family

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

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• When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

  Alex Haley

  Family, Talking, Alex

  "Race: Haley's Rx: Talk, Write, Reunite" in TIME magazine, February 14, 1977.

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• And that's the wonderful thing about family travel: it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind.

  Dave Barry

  Travel, Memorable, Forever

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.53, Ballantine Books

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• Life is about family and technology.

  Mark Goddard

  Technology, Life Is

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• The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.

  Robert Breault

  Family, Long, Perspective

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• My Christmases have always just been very simple and about family.

  Julie Roberts

  Christmas, Holiday, Simple

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• There's always a wine bully. The one person who did read the 'Wine Spectator,' who tells you what to drink and why the '97 is better than the '98. I want to punch the wine bully in the face. I want to make sure this generation of wine drinkers isn't elitist and snotty. I want it to be about family and bringing people together.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Wine, People, Bully

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• This last year... I learned something about family. Like it's not about blood alone. It's being connected... it's growing up together and loving each other. It's believing in the same God and knowing you'd do anything for the person across from you at dinner.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Growing Up, Believe, Blood

  FaceBook post by Karen Kingsbury from Oct 06, 2014

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• I speak about family and adoption because it 100% changed my life and who I am. It definitely played a very large role into just learning how to be grateful for what you have and being fulfilled in a way that a lot of adopted kids don't feel.

  Jenna Ushkowitz

  Grateful, Kids, Who I Am

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• When my Republican colleagues talk about family values, they mean that a woman should not be able to have the right to control her own body; that women should not be able to purchase the contraceptives that they want. Those are their family values, not our family values.

  Bernie Sanders

  Mean, Body, Want

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• So many American plays are about family. When you're in the first part of your life, you write about family a lot. I find with my absurdist plays that I was actually writing about my family, but so disguised I didn't realize it myself.

  Christopher Durang

  Writing, Play, Firsts

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• Growing up, I didn't know about families who were missing a father, because there weren't any in our neighborhood. Today over a third of American children are born into single-parent homes. Is this all men's doing?

  Timothy J. Russert

  Children, Growing Up, Father

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• It is not enough to preach about family values, we must value families.

  Hillary Clinton

  Enough, Family Values, Values

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• When you say Sharia, even to a Muslim, it's understood in vastly different ways, in many ways it's part of an identity and most Muslims when they talk about wanting Sharia to play a role in their lives really mean it in so far as it talks about family law, you know, issues like, as I said marriage, divorce.

  Mark Durie

  Mean, Divorce, Law

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• For me, Christmas is about family, loving, forgiveness, compassion, understanding and comradery.

  Anthony Mackie

  Compassion, Understanding, Loving Family

  Source: collider.com

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• I realized that this story [Shelter] is all about family, family loss, and how it influences you day to day life.

  Paul Bettany

  Loss, Stories, Shelter

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I'm not like a politician that goes around talking about family values. And I can't get fired from being a funny person because I did something that most people are disapproving of. I think people are just obsessed with this morality that people perceive as being the right and wrong way of doing stuff.

  Steve Coogan

  Thinking, Talking, People

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 20, 2008.

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• Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start.

  Robert Morgan

  Stories, Young Writers, Bedtime

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• One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.

  Gabe Newell

  Important, Narrative

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

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