Family Members Quotes

• He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

  Chanakya

  Family, Education, Grief

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• You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspirational, Family, God

  Address at his enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, September 7, 1986.

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• Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.

  Marsha Norman

  Family, Mean, Being Thankful

  Marsha Norman (1983). “'Night, Mother”, p.19, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Sometimes when family members least deserve love, they need it most. Love is not appropriately expressed in threats, accusations, expressions of disappointment, or retaliation. Real love takes time, patience, help, and continuing performances.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Disappointment, Real, Love Is

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• If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

  Robert Breault

  Family, Gathering, Minutes

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• You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn't depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Best Friend, Family, Good Friend

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• I was blessed to have family members who encouraged me to pursue my dreams. Whether it is your parents, or your uncles or your aunts or even the neighbor down the road, it's important that kids have someone who encourages them to chase their rainbow.

  Dolly Parton

  Family, Dream, Uncles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Doctor MacKenzie says "Sometimes I think the Victorians had the right idea. When you lost a family member back then you were suppose to be in full mourning, dress in nothing but black, for a whole year. Then you went into something they called 'half mourning' for another full year, adn during those two years, you were pretty much expected to have emotional breakdowns, you could do it whenever you felt you needed to, and everybody would support you. Now?, A month after a tragedy, maybe two, and you're expected to be all better-or down pills so you can pretend you are.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Emotional, Thinking, Support You

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• Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends.

  Holly Hunter

  Daughter, Mother, Husband

  "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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• To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.

  Dennis Banks

  Running, Honor, Bags

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• Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family members or friends who lack the desire, the courage, or the opportunity to burst in on you when there's some indication that you could be sexually entwined will seldom hesitate to interject themselves between you and a page, even though the act of reading is often as intimate and intense as a full-fledged carnal embrace.

  Tom Robbins

  Reading, Opportunity, Desire

  Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.10, Bantam

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• I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.

  Ben Barnes

  Uncles, War, Average

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• Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

  Gloria Steinem

  Believe, Unhappy, Would Be

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.206, Open Road Media

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• When I go back to family reunions everybody goes, 'Hey cousin! Hey Auntie!' And I'm like, 'Okay I don't know you, I have no idea who you are.' I am auntie and cousin for so many and even the ones in prison call me collect. And I'll be like, 'Which of my family members are giving you this phone number?'

  Sherri Shepherd

  Cousin, Phones, Ideas

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• I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

  Robert Redford

  Years, People, Conformity

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• Too bad. Family members hit you by accident. Psychopathic whores tend to come back for more.

  Richelle Mead

  Rose, Members, Psychopathic

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.230, Penguin

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• Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Cat, Animal

  "Pets Should Be Evacuated, Too" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2011.

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• But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was.

  Brett Favre

  Sports, Football, Knowing

  "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Ign Sports Interview, www.espn.com. 24 November 2004.

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• Members of the Senate and House, if they want to send troops into war, should be forced to send a family member. That would really make everyone stop and go, 'Ohhh-kaaay.'

  Will Ferrell

  War, House, Troops

  "Will Ferrell: The King of Comedy Opens Up" with Holly Millea, www.elle.com. July 18, 2012.

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• I have many friends and family members who have served (or are currently serving) in our nation's Armed Forces. I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out.

  Karl Malone

  Profound, Family And Friends, Force

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• Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.

  Ang Lee

  Movie, Thinking, Actors

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• My charity is in the business of helping firefighters in any way that we can. For instance, after 9/11 we were the second-fastest charity to raise and distribute money to the widows and surviving family members of the 343 firefighters who died that day.

  Denis Leary

  Firefighter, Widows, Charity

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• Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Abuse, Pet, Pests

  "Inside the Minds of Animals" by Jeffrey Kluger, content.time.com. August 5, 2010.

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• If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Inner Peace, Matter, Stuff

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