Large Family Quotes - Page 2

• I come from a large family so you can count on the fact that I'm going to have more kids.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Kids, Facts

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• Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them, with them, and so there is something more to the world again.

  William Saroyan

  Children, Kids, World

  "Here Comes There Goes You Know Who". Book b yWilliam Saroyan, 1961.

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• I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Funny, Relationship, Marriage

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• I wasn't a cliquey person, and I think that's because I came from a large family. I got along with everybody, and I usually got along with the people that people didn't like.

  Amy Sedaris

  Thinking, People, Persons

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. January 21, 2004.

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• I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's going to get edited. I think that comes from being in a large family, so you have to get your story in really quick or someone cuts you off.

  Amy Sedaris

  Cutting, Thinking, Stories

  "Amy Sedaris Likes To Watch You Cry". Interview with Lucas Kavner, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 2, 2011.

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• The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Family, Mother, Children

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• Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Education, Children

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• [On growing up in a large family with little money:] ... to take a bath ... we just had a pan of water and we'd wash down as far as possible, and we'd wash up as far as possible. Then, when somebody'd clear the room, we'd wash possible.

  Dolly Parton

  Growing Up, Water, Littles

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• I have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Responsibility, Want, Helpful

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• I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Family, Beautiful

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

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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, Big Families

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• The woman movement is one which is uniting by co-operating influences, all the antagonisms that are warring on the family state. Spiritualism, free love, free divorce, the vicious indulgences consequent on unregulated civilization, the worldliness which tempts men and women to avoid large families, often by sinful methods, thus making the ignorant masses the chief supply of the future ruling majorities; and most powerful of all, the feeble constitution and poor health of women, causing them to dread maternity as--what it is fast becoming--an accumulation of mental and bodily tortures.

  Catharine Beecher

  Family, Powerful, Divorce

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1871). “Woman Suffrage and Woman's Profession”, p.9

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• I believe in large families: every woman should have at least three husbands.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Husband, Believe, Should Have

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

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• It is my view that our society can be no more stable than the foundation of individual family units upon which it rests. Our government, our institutions, our schools...indeed, our way of life are dependent on healthy marriages and loyalty to the vulnerable little children around our feet.

  James Dobson

  Family, Loyalty, Children

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• The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

  Theodore Isaac Rubin

  Success, Encouragement, Determination

  Theodore Isaac Rubin (1983). “One to one: understanding personal relationships”, Viking Pr

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• I grew up, as reported, in a large family of Catholics without even a decent ration of tentativeness among the lot of us about our religious faith.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Religious, Catholic, Grew Up

  William F. Buckley, Jr. (2011). “Nearer, My God”, p.337, Image

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• The idea of having a large family, I definitely had a romantic notion of it.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Ideas, Notion

  Source: www.npr.org

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• My mother was born in the city, my dad was an immigrant. Probably from Germany. Could have been Austria, could have been Poland. The borders were changing. My dad brought over a large family of Shatners when he was very young. Scraped together the money, got 11 brothers and sisters a passage on the boat. There's a lot of Shatners in Montreal.

  William Shatner

  Mother, Brother, Dad

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Children make you want to start life over.

  Muhammad Ali

  Baby, Children, Silly

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• I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Three, Older Sister

  "Alexander McCall Smith: My family values". Interview with Michelle Hodgson, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2011.

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• And when I look back I recognize now that I indeed do come from a large family of artists. Whether they necessarily realize it or not.

  E.J. Bonilla

  Artist, Looks, Realizing

  "LatinoBuzz Interview: E.J. Bonilla on His Hot-Blooded Performance in ‘The House That Jack Built’" by Juan Caceres, www.indiewire.com. November 21, 2015.

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• When we lived in a society where we had large families that lived together, especially in agricultural societies like my grandfather and father grew up in, the result is you always had family around to take care of you.

  Atul Gawande

  Father, Together, Care

  "Atul Gawande: “We Have Medicalized Aging, and That Experiment Is Failing Us”". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 7, 2014.

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• Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Family, Character, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2077, Delphi Classics

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• I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Fortune, Family Values, Raised

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• Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.

  Margaret Sanger

  Family, Fighting, Jail

  Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.308, Inkling Books

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