Close Family Quotes

• I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.

  Barry Gibb

  Change, Family Love, Giving

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• The first Superman film took up a huge chunk of our lives, but it was a wonderful time for us. We were young, my daughter was little, we were filming in London for a year, so we became like a close family.

  Margot Kidder

  Daughter, Mother, Years

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• 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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  I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

  Margaret Mead

  Uplifting, Determination, Work

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Wayne Mazzoni "You Vs. You: Sport Psychology Got Life" (p. 90), 2005.

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• In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.

  Eva Burrows

  Love, Family, Meaningful

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• Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.

  Evan Esar

  Family, Mother, Children

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• More important than a clean house is a close family.

  Ann Voskamp

  House, Important, Clean

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• I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to feel my autonomy. Other than that brief gap, we have always been a very close family.

  Jennifer Ehle

  Years, Parent, Twenties

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• People think I'm so confident. Close family members can see through that.

  Katie Price

  Thinking, People, Members

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• I have a pretty close family and there are certain similarities - maybe a lot of families have this - where geographically, we're separated, so there are times when one family member will be needing a lot at one particular moment, so everyone rallies around that particular family member. Then there are other moments where, if [the family is] okay, I might not talk to my brother for two or three weeks, but then if I get him on the phone at five in the afternoon, it feels like we spoke that morning.

  Justin Hartley

  Morning, Brother, Two

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I've been very lucky. I come from a very close family. I'm also in a relationship that's been really good. Lasted a long time. We've got wonderful kids from that relationship, and they've had the benefit of being together. It's fantastic to have that sort of togetherness. It's a rarity these days.

  Richard Branson

  Kids, Long, Together

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I live right in front of my daughter. I have a little house right in front of her because I can stay in touch. It's like a little commune, and it's very nice, because you can be close. I can see my granddaughter. I live very close to my brother, too, and my son. We're a very close family.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Daughter, Brother, Nice

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• You need to have a lot of close family around you, a lot of friends to keep you honest. Take your time, take a year and just slow everything down a little bit. Get away from the success part, stay with yourself. Go off on a beach somewhere or do something to keep yourself aligned right.

  George Lucas

  Beach, Years, Lots Of Friends

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• My childhood was very gregarious, and I was usually surrounded by close family.

  Stephen Mangan

  Childhood, Gregarious

  "My family values". Interview with Jo Mears, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.

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• I had a very close family and I couldn't get away with anything.

  Shirley Temple

  Get Away

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• We've got a pretty close family. Just ended fourteen years of travel hockey with two boys. My daughter was always a part of that. So there's a lot of trips to the hockey games. As I tell idiotic, stupid, youth-sport parents, it's about the drive there and the drive back, not about the trophy or how your kid played. We've always had a good relationship with our kids. You're driving with them and talking to them at the age of eight. It became this adventure and they learned to love it. You connect, you really do. It's not for every family.

  Jeff Daniels

  Sports, Daughter, Stupid

  "Jeff Daniels Talks RV". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. April 24, 2006.

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• Because I come from such a close family, my natural instinct is to marry and have kids as soon as possible.

  Nicole Trunfio

  Kids, Natural Instinct, Instinct

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• We are a very close family, and I love them very much, but I'm definitely the odd one out. I live a completely different kind of life style. I always was different. I felt like a fish out of water; I really never knew who I was.

  Janet McTeer

  Odd One, Water, Style

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

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• Obviously I ask my family and loved ones for advice here and there, but I kind of have a rule with the people I love that surround me - close family and close friends - that unless I ask for it, I don't really want advice thrown out.

  Torrey DeVitto

  People, Advice, Here And There

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

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• A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Phones, Goats, Opinion

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• When I was a child, I thought of my Delta town as the center of the universe, but now I realize how little I know about the universe. As a child, I thought I was immortal, but now I recognize how limited a time we all have. As a child, success meant scoring A on every exam, but now I take it to mean good health, close family and friends, achieve- ments in my work, and helping others.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Children, Mean, Helping Others

  Ahmed H. Zewail (2002). “Voyage Through Time: Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize”, p.236, World Scientific

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• In my view, immigrants today aren't any different from immigrants who have come to America throughout our nation's history. They bring new ideas, an entrepreneurial spirit and close family ties. They place a high value on education. And they are eager to achieve the American Dream. ... It's to our benefit to keep our doors open, and to keep enriching our economy and culture. I'd like to see America continue to do so.

  Dick Armey

  Dream, Doors, Views

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• I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.

  Lee Iacocca

  Determination, Fall, Hard Work

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• In Brooklyn, it was as though you were in your own little bubble. You were all part of one big, but very close family, and the Dodgers were the main topic of everybody's conversations and you could sense the affection people had for you. I don't know that such a thing exists anymore.

  Don Drysdale

  People, Brooklyn, Littles

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• I was interested in flying beginning at age 7, when a close family friend took me in his little airplane. And I remember looking at the wheel of the airplane as we rolled down the runway, because I wanted to remember the exact moment that I first went flying... the other thing growing up is that I was always interested in science.

  David M. Brown

  Growing Up, Airplane, Flying

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