My Family Quotes - Page 13

• I want to spend as much time as I can with my family, yet I'm aware of having to bring home the bacon.

  Dan Stevens

  Home, Want, I Can

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

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• Everybody sung in my family.

  Rod Stewart

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• I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.

  Sting

  Want, Loser, Rejected

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• I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.

  Angie Stone

  Always On The Go, Junk, Lasts

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• I was born in Patterson, New Jersey, and raised pretty much all around the country. My family tended to move from place to place following economic prospects and jobs and looking for new opportunities, so we changed schools, colleges, grade schools, high schools every 6 months to a year - depending on the breaks.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Country, Jobs, Moving

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. September 5, 2000.

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• My family joke that I'm really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11.

  Adora Svitak

  Senior, Persons, Happens

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• 'Love Story' is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn't like him. All of them!

  Taylor Swift

  Guy, Stories, Love Story

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• I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There's roasted meat and mashed potatoes. But being here is also about heritage. Cleveland is really a giant melting pot - not only is my family a melting pot, but so is the city.

  Michael Symon

  Thanksgiving, Holiday, Thinking

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• No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.

  Amy Tan

  Encouragement, Thinking, Fiction

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• You set fire to my house, killed my family, and ate my dog. But steal my boyfriend? That's a step too far.

  Libba Bray

  Dog, Fire, House

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• My name is Asher Lev... I am a traitor, an apostate, a self-hater, an inflicter of shame upon my family, my friends, my people; also, I am a mocker of ideas sacred to Christians, a blasphemous manipulator of modes and forms revered by Gentiles for two thousand years.

  Chaim Potok

  Christian, Self, Years

  Chaim Potok (2009). “My Name Is Asher Lev”, p.6, Anchor

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• I try to stay centered in my faith and my family and the close people around me.

  Tim Tebow

  People, Trying

  "Tim Tebow Reveals Personal Vices, Keys to Staying Grounded in New Interview" by Sophie Schillaci, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 13, 2012.

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• I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Life, Success, Home

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• I can't move back to England. My home is in France now. I'd love to but I can't. My family's all there now.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Moving, Home, France

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• In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.

  Marlo Thomas

  Strength, Journey, Feelings

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• I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.

  Gene Tierney

  Sexy, Jobs, Intelligent

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• I text a lot people, because it's how I stay connected with all my family and friends when I'm on set and traveling.

  Ashley Tisdale

  People, Family And Friends, Connected

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• My family belongs to a tennis club in Valencia, California, so I always go there. I play a lot of tennis with my dad and swim. And I like to go to the gym there.

  Ashley Tisdale

  Dad, Play, California

  "Five Questions with Ashley Tisdale". www.seventeen.com. July 31, 2007.

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• Go home, kiss your wives, hug your children and put your affairs in order, because tomorrow I will burn your neighborhood to the ground. We will kill you, your families, your neighbors, your pets, and anyone who will stand in our path. An attack on my family will not go unpunished.

  Ilona Andrews

  Children, Home, Kissing

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.223, Penguin

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• I was stark raving mad, and my family was too polite to mention it. That's what living with the Yamanis does to people. They get so well-mannered they won't mention you're crazy.

  Tamora Pierce

  Crazy, People, Mad

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.177, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• You’re my sister,” he said finally. “My sister, my blood, my family. I should want to protect you”—he laughed soundlessly and without any humor—“to protect you from the sort of boys who want to do with you exactly what I want to do.

  Cassandra Clare

  Boys, Blood, Want

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• Tell me what game Steph Landry and I used to play in the big dirt pile they made while they were digging my family’s pool, back when we were both seven, or I’ll know you’re an alien replacement and you’ve got the real Steph up in your mother ship!” I glared at him. “G.I. Joe meets Spelunker Barbie,” I said. “And stop being so ridiculous. We have to go. We’re going to end up at a bad table for lunch.

  Meg Cabot

  Mother, Real, Games

  Meg Cabot (2008). “How to be Popular: ... when you're a social reject like me, Steph L.!”, p.97, Pan Macmillan

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• In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. I've thought a great deal about my life and my country. I think there is little that can be truly known. My family has been fortunate. Others were less so. As they are often quick to point out.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Dream, Country, Lying

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.244, Pan Macmillan

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• She's afraid to tell me anything important, knowing I'll only turn around and write about it. In my mind, I'm like a friendly junkman, building things from the little pieces of scrap I find here and there, but my family's started to see things differently. Their personal lives are the so-called pieces of scrap I so casually pick up, and they're sick of it. More and more often their stories begin with the line "You have to swear you'll never repeat this." I always promise, but it's generally understood that my word means nothing.

  David Sedaris

  Writing, Mean, Knowing

  "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim". Book by David Sedaris, June 1, 2004.

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• I'm pretty sure I can say that no one in my family ever asked Demetrie what it felt like to be black in Mississippi, working for our white family. It never occurred to us to ask. It was everyday life. It wasn't something people felt compelled to examine. I have wished, for many years, that I'd been old enough and thoughtful enough to ask Demetrie that question. She died when I was sixteen. I've spent years imagining what her answer would be. And that is why I wrote this book.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Book, Thoughtful, Years

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