Good Family Quotes

• I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Girl, Good Day, One Day

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• Am I calm all the time? That is a question to ask my mother. I am very happy in my home. I have a good family, that gives me something extra.

  Jean Alesi

  Mother, Home, Giving

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• I can see how you could get dragged into the bad stuff, but I've got good friends around me, good family. I think I've got my head screwed on.

  Harry Styles

  Good Friend, Thinking, Stuff

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

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• I would suggest maintaining a life and a career outside the Industry. This is a fickle business and a lousy one to make a steady living in, so it's important to have a good family, friends, job and education to fall back on.

  Fred Savage

  Education, Jobs, Fall

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

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• I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

  Dan Quayle

  Believe, Politics, Platforms

  "Personalities" by Chuck Conconi, www.washingtonpost.com. November 13, 1989.

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• And having a strong family, you know we've lost some members of our family and had some setbacks, but I think a good family and kids all those things I thought at one time... you got to be kidding me... Those things are so important they enable you to go on.

  Brett Favre

  Sports, Strong, Kids

  "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Interview with Suzy Kolber, www.espn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Inspirational, Family, Mean

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• A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

  Cleveland Amory

  Family, Used, Seems

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• Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.

  Deborah Meier

  Inspirational, Family, Education

  Deborah Meier (2002). “The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons for America from a Small School in Harlem”, p.38, Beacon Press

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• Get to know your parents, you never know when they'll be gone for good.

  Mary Schmich

  Family, Parent, Gone

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.33, Agate Digital

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• The intellectual is not defined by professional group and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in themselves to produce an intellectual. An intellectual is a person whose interest in and preoccupation with the spiritual side of life are insistent and constant and not forced by external circumstances, even flying in the face of them. An intellectual is a person whose thought is nonimitative.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, Flying, Intellectual

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• Good families are generally worse than any others.

  Anthony Hope

  Human Condition

  Anthony Hope (2016). “The Prisoner of Zenda”, p.4, Xist Publishing

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• How many pictures have you torn up because you hate them? What ends up in your scrapbook? The pictures where you look like a good guy and a good family man, and the children look adorable - and they're screaming the next minute. I've never seen a family album of screaming people.

  Richard Avedon

  Children, Hate, Men

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• I do not come from a rich family, but I come from a really good family.

  Jordan Belfort

  Rich Family, Rich

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• I'm cut from a different cloth. I would never moon someone. I was raised in a good family.

  Foxy Brown

  Cutting, Moon, Different

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• Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat. No one knows you like the people you live with, and no one will take up your cause to the outside world quite like your blood relatives.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Blood, People, World

  Adriana Trigiani (2012). “The Shoemaker's Wife: A Novel”, p.37, Harper Collins

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• My family was a good family, I had a great Canadian education and I came up in a great, little town like Ottawa.

  Paul Anka

  Towns, Ottawa, Littles

  "Paul Anka, the original Canadian idol". Interview with Ben Rayner, www.thestar.com. April 16, 2013.

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• She should have remembered that people have given everything they own, everything they are, to be taken care of, and to have their pain gone. It's the lure of cults: the promise of a good family; it's what people think love is, but love isn't absence of pain, it's a hand to hold while you're going through it.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Pain, Taken, Love Is

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2007). “The Harlequin: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.378, Penguin

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• There is, indeed, nothing more annoying than to be, for instance, wealthy, of good family, nice-looking, fairly intelligent, and even good-natured, and yet to have no talents, no special faculty, no peculiarity even, not one idea of one's own, to be precisely "like other people.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Nice, Intelligent, Ideas

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• What does it mean to grow rich? Is it to have red-blooded adventures and to make a ‘fortune,’ which is what brought the whalers and other entrepreneurs north? Or is it, rather, to have a good family life and to be imbued with a far-reaching and intimate knowledge of one’s homeland, which is what the Tununirmiut told the whalers at Pond’s Bay wealth was? Is it to retain a capacity for awe and astonishment in our lives, to continue to hunger after what is genuine and worthy? Is it to live at moral peace with the universe?

  Barry Lopez

  Adventure, Mean, Entrepreneur

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• No. . .I mean, I'm sorry he. . .You know, said those things to you." "It's part of being a 'good' family. Everyone's got skeletons in their closet.

  Richelle Mead

  Sorry, Mean, Skeletons

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• You know I love a good family feud and I carry a big stick.

  Kami Garcia

  Feuds, Sticks, Bigs

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• I've had a nontabloid life because I had a really good family.

  Peter Billingsley

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• I've got a good family to support me, so I'm grounded in that way.

  Freddie Highmore

  Support, Way, Grounded

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• I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.

  Maeve Binchy

  Family And Friends, Age, Lucky

  Maeve Binchy (2013). “Maeve's Times”, p.323, Hachette UK

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