About Family Quotes - Page 6

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

  Julie Roberts

  Christmas, Holiday, Simple

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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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• Life is about family and technology.

  Mark Goddard

  Technology, Life Is

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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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• 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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• You tend to write as you get older about family love more than you write about romantic love or ooh baby. ... The stuff that you want to celebrate about humanity has always been there and probably always will be.

  David Crosby

  Music, Baby, Writing

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• I put everything I had into it - all my feelings and everything I'd learned in 46 years of living, about family life and fathers and children. And my feelings about racial justice and inequality and opportunity.

  Gregory Peck

  Children, Father, Opportunity

  On his role as Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird". "Oscar-Winner Gregory Peck Dies at Age 87", usatoday30.usatoday.com. June 12, 2003.

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• By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original prescription. By leaving, one gains a perspective, a distance of both space and time, which is essential for writing about family or home, in any case.

  Rabih Alameddine

  Country, Distance, Home

  Rabih Alameddine (2002). “I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters”, p.317, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn't.

  William J. Clinton

  Family, Government, Politician

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• As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about families.

  Marina Lewycka

  Falling In Love, Two, People

  Marina Lewycka (2006). “A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian”, p.68, Penguin

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• How precious is the family as the privileged place for transmitting the faith! Speaking about family life, I would like to say one thing: today, as Brazil and the Church around the world celebrate this feast of Saints Joachim and Anne, Grandparents Day is also being celebrated. How important grandparents are for family life, for passing on the human and religious heritage which is so essential for each and every society! How important it is to have intergenerational exchanges and dialogues, especially within the context of the family.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, Passing On, Grandparent

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• There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast.

  Peter DeFazio

  California Coast, Oregon, White

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• Christmas to me is very much about family and the depths of winter.

  Ian Astbury

  Winter, Depth

  "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

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• Let's just put the business aside and talk about family. Family's just amazing. My wife Jenny-Lynn is an incredible mother. Our son Geddy is just unbelievable. Nothing but love and laughter and that's what life should be. It's so hard when you're in the industry we're in. It can be very negative. I've tried my whole life to stay positive with this gig, and I do. I just love what I do - but more importantly - I love life.

  J. Robert Spencer

  Mother, Laughter, Love Life

  "J. Robert Spencer: Jersey Boy & Movie Man". Interview with Eugene Lovendusky, www.broadwayworld.com. November 13, 2007.

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• The next most dangerous thing [after nuclear proliferation] is probably... global warming, and then, right behind that are overpopulation -- we need to get serious about family planning-and trying to alleviate poverty, to get clean, renewable energy, probably with solar panels to the billion and a half people in the world who don't have access to electricity.

  Ted Turner

  People, Trying, Serious

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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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• If we're lucky we realize that life is really about family - your children, your family and your friends. Without that, the rest is hollow.

  Paul Stanley

  Children, Lucky, Realizing

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Food is also about pleasure, about community, about family and spirituality, about our relationship to the natural world, and about expressing our identity. As long as humans have been taking meals together, eating has been as much about culture as it has been about biology.

  Michael Pollan

  Long, Community, Together

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.16, Penguin

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• I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.

  Christian Bale

  Actors, Too Much, Politician

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• People understand about family; people understand about being in situations where you have to be brave. People get falling in love.

  Deborah Mailman

  Falling In Love, People, Brave

  "Interview with Deborah Mailman – Star of The Sapphires". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. March 21, 2013.

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• I like exploring both the light parts and the dark parts of a single person. And all of those shades tend to come out most acutely in stories about families.

  Rosemarie DeWitt

  Dark, Light, Stories

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

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• I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Beach, Book, Writing

  "Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner Speak Out On Franzen Feud: HuffPost Exclusive". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2010.

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• A woman needs to enjoy life a little bit more. Needs to think about family, needs to think about kids.

  Ernests Gulbis

  Kids, Thinking, Enjoy Life

  "Gulbis dissuading female players". www.espn.com. May 31, 2014.

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• And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families.

  John F. Kerry

  Family Values, Values

  "We need to make America once again a beacon in the world", www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2004.

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