About Family Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• I'm working on poems about work, I guess. Or related to work. Which sounds dull as drywall but I'm having great fun working the vernacular of work into poems. I'm also writing some poems about family. And I don't know, just writing. Taking breaks. Writing some more.

  Randall Mann

  Fun, Writing, Sound

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Jesus is challenging that when addressing "who is your neighbor" and he has a lot of hard things to say about family, "unless you hate your own family you are not going to be a disciple." He is challenging the limits of our compassion and our love as if someone's kid suffers it should be as devastating to us as if it were our own kid. That is what the early church said.

  Shane Claiborne

  Jesus, Hate, Kids

  "Interview with Shane Claiborne: Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

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• We see it in attempts on Capitol Hill to impose gag rules on rules on doctors on what they can say to their patients about family planning. And we certainly see it now with an effort by the government to tap our phones; invade our medical records, credit information, library records and the most sensitive personal information in the name of national security.

  Dick Durbin

  Names, Doctors, Phones

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• Hillary Clinton is only talking about families who come here in violation of the law. We will treat everyone living or residing in our country with great dignity. So important.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Talking, Law

  Source: time.com

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• I absolutely think that when we talk about family, faith, community, I think it's important for Democrats to be able to connect with folks where they live.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Community, Important

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I'm halfway through a novel set in two time frames - Austin in the 1960's and Alpine (Texas) in present day. It started out to be a small, lighthearted, humorous book about family relationships; I was tired of writing war stories and tragedies.

  Elizabeth Crook

  War, Humorous, Book

  Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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• Walt Disney had a very clear sense of why. He was about happiness. Remember when Disney was founded, it was during war. People said that life sucked. And he said, "No." He was an eternal optimist who said: "Life is beautiful. It's about giving. It's about family." Look what happened. His cause grew and people committed themselves to helping him grow the Disney why and it was hugely successful.

  Simon Sinek

  Beautiful, War, Successful

  Source: advisor.tv

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• It certainly makes people question why a man who talks about family values all the time doesn't seem to care that his own sister, not to mention thousands of other Americans, can lose her job just because of her sexual orientation.

  Candace Gingrich-Jones

  Jobs, Men, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• People understand when I talk about my son not listening, or issues at home or his real dad coming back into the picture, or even stories about family members not seeing eye to eye with what you're doing.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Dad, Real, Eye

  Source: goseetalk.com

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• Hillary Clinton talks constantly about her fears that families will be separated, but she's not talking about the American families who have been permanently separated from their loved ones because of a preventable homicide, because of a preventable death, because of murder. No, she's only talking about families who come here in violation of the law.

  Donald Trump

  Talking, Law, Murder

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• I don't know if it's a misconception, but I often get asked why I always make stories about family and love. Over the years, I´ve also directed commercials, a children's film, and TV - dramas (both comedic and darker), because I always feel the urge to go in a different direction with my next project.

  Anne Sewitsky

  Children, Drama, Years

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

  Hillary Clinton

  Enough, Family Values, Values

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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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