Big Families Quotes

• Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

  George Burns

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Family, Thank You, Fathers Day

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• The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

  Dodie Smith

  Funny, Family, Heart

  Dear Octopus (1938) p. 120

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• There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

  Anwar Sadat

  Family, Justice, Diversity

  Anwar Sadat (1978). “In Search of Identity: An Autobiography”, New York : Harper & Row

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• I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.

  Heidi Klum

  Family, Children, Kids

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• I've never fancied that footballer lifestyle. I suppose I could live that kind of flash life. People stereotype child actors and kind of expect you to go off the rails a bit, be a bit crazy, but that's not really happened yet. I've got a big family so that helps, and they live really close to the studios so it's just so much easier.

  Rupert Grint

  Children, Crazy, People

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• In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.

  Antonin Scalia

  Children, Perfect, Pancakes

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• Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

  Emma Thompson

  Family, Communication, Effective Listening

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• If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Family, Believe, Being Thankful

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• I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

  Jet Li

  Family, Travel, Believe

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• When you come from a big family, you see that, growing up, you're learning how to share. Your sisters have got your back; you're not alone in this - 'We all support you!' Your family provides that; it gives you a sense of safety, and it's a very grounding feeling.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Growing Up, Support You, Safety

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• I want six kids. We'll see how it goes, but I want a big family.

  Holly Madison

  Kids, Want, Six

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• I look to my family for my support. I'm fortunate to have a big family.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Support, Looks, My Family

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• While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.

  Bill Murray

  Mother, Lonely, Father

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• We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn't as nice here so there's no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles.

  Denise Mina

  Nice, Air, People

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• I love mythology, grew up loving it. I'm a middle kid, big family, that's the thing you did in the farm country. I lived in Iowa, I loved mythology. I don't know, we're like that.

  Kellan Lutz

  Country, Kids, Iowa

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• I always loved family holidays, and I had this vision and dream as a little girl of having a big family of my own.

  Brooke Burke

  Girl, Dream, Holiday

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• My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Struggle, School, Bigs

  Interview With Erykah Badu, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 23, 2013.

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• I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes.

  Anne Lamott

  Heart, Successful, Support

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• I grew up in a big family. You have to learn to get along with each other... get things done as a family.

  John Boehner

  Done, Grew Up, Bigs

  "Boehner: Sometimes I'm 'Gestapo'" by Tal Kopan, www.politico.com. January 24, 2014.

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• In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.

  Jet Li

  Country, Two, Chinese

  "TalkAsia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. January 29, 2003.

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• I can watch CNN on television or the Internet to find out what happened in Hong Kong ten minutes ago. After all, it doesn't matter where something is made, we're all part of the same big family now.

  Jet Li

  Cnn, Watches, Television

  "'The World Is My Oyster'". Interview with Stephen Short, www.cnn.com. Apr 12, 2000.

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• I grew up with a big family. I want that. I want to have my own family.

  Ryan Lochte

  Want, Grew Up, Bigs

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• People get burned out in big families, you can even see it in the naming of children. Like the first kid, "You were named after Grandma." The seventh kid, "You were named after a sandwich I had. Now get your brother, Reuben."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Brother, Children

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• I have a really big family, and pretty much all my work is about my brothers and sisters. I'm the youngest of eight - my mom had seven kids in seven years, and then she had me 11 years later - so I was basically raised by all these teenagers.

  Ryan McGinley

  Mom, Brother, Teenager

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