My Family Quotes - Page 8

• And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.

  Alice Hoffman

  Ideas, Hatred, Done

  Alice Hoffman (2007). “Incantation”

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• I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart.

  Tiger Woods

  Regret, Heart, Down And

  Tiger Woods' Car Crash Statement, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2009.

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• I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves.

  Tiger Woods

  Behavior, Values, Deserve

  Tiger Woods' statement, edition.cnn.com. December 2, 2009.

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• My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.

  John Oliver

  Queens, Voice, Sound

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• I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family. Not even casually could I indicate any claims that I might rightly advance in any direction. I have not even any defense to offer for standing on this platform, holding on to this strap, letting myself be carried along by this tram, nor for the people who give way to the tram or walk quietly along or stand gazing into shop windows. Nobody asks me to put up a defense, indeed, but that is irrelevant.

  Franz Kafka

  People, Giving, Defense

  Franz Kafka (2009). “The Metamorphosis: And Other Stories”, p.35, Schocken

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• It is the act of reading itself that I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the world until I have found some space, some air that isn't stale, that hasn't been breathed by my family a thousand times already.

  Nick Hornby

  Reading, Opportunity, Air

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• Even as a very young man, I knew that my family is like a plant. Uproot it, and it will wilt. Pluck away at it, and it will die. But leave it to thrive in the soil, untouched, and it will weather both gods and winds. It is born with the soil, and it will live so long as the soil shall live.

  Etgar Keret

  Men, Wind, Weather

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• In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Father, Champion, World

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But we've all ended up giving body and soul to Africa, one way or another. Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in tropical epidemiology and strange new viruses. Each of us got our heart buried in six feet of African dirt; we are all co-conspirators here. I mean, all of us, not just my family. So what do you do now? You get to find your own way to dig out a heart and shake it off and hold it up to the light again.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Heart, Mean, Light

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• My family suffered. My hair turned up in every corner, every drawer, every meal. Even in the rice puddings Tessie made, covering each little bowl with wax paper before putting it away in the fridge--even into these prophylactically secure desserts my hair found its way! Jet black hairs wound themselves around bars of soap. They lay pressed like flower stems between the pages of books. They turned up in eyeglass cases, birthday cards, once--I swear--inside an egg Tessie had just cracked. The next-door neighbor's cat coughed up a hairball one day and the hair was not the cat's.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Flower, Book, Cat

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.306, A&C Black

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• My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Race, Way, Sense Of Humor

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• When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.

  Robert Frost

  Baseball, Waste, Poet

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• I was abused my family was the "brady bunch

  Dave Pelzer

  Brady Bunch, Bunch, Brady

  Dave Pelzer (1993). “A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive”, p.17, Health Communications, Inc.

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• I won't talk to you about my family and you won't talk to me about yours. Family talk is either boring or self-pitying. Or it's Gothic, like a Faulkner novel. Who needs to talk about it? It's enough to live it.

  Chaim Potok

  Self, Needs, Gothic

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• I tell the kids that, even in a childhood marked by despair and deprivation, I knew that no matter what happened, I still had my family, or at least the remnants of a family ripped apart by divorce and then glued back together in various odd arrangements through a series of ill- advised remarriages. It was good to know I had a solid foundation.

  Bill Bryson

  Kids, Divorce, Childhood

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• You saw we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Children, Honor, Saws

  Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill (2006). “The Hiding Place”, p.115, Chosen Books

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• Cal says that humans are made from the nuclear ash of dead stars. He says that when I die, I'll return to dust, glitter,rain. If thats true, I want to be buried right here under this tree. Its roots will reach into the soft mess of my body and suck me dry. I'll be re-formed as apple blossom. I'll drift down in the spring like confetti and cling to my family's shoes. They'll carry me in their pockets to help them sleep. What dreams will they have then?

  Jenny Downham

  Dream, Stars, Spring

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• I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but I've come to learn that if I am going to take revenge, in that process I will kill another person whose family will want revenge; then revenge and revenge and revenge will never come to an end.

  Ishmael Beah

  Revenge, Army, Insightful

  Ishmael Beah (2007). “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”, p.199, Macmillan

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• Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to me a rather prurient way, whether I myself or my family have 'ever been threatened' by jihadists. My answer is that yes, I have, and so has everyone else in the audience, if they have paid enough attention to the relevant bin-Ladenist broadcasts to notice the fact.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Writing, Facts, Attention

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.1497, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It's funny how in that moment I see things clearly. Am I beaten down? Yes. Have I allowed myself to become a victim? Somewhat. Am I afraid? Always. Does some part of me still long to fly away from this place? Absolutely. But I can't leave. Sam and I have built a life for Joy. It isn't perfect, but it's a life. My family's happiness means more to me that starting over again. Page 210

  Lisa See

  Mean, Long, Starting Over

  Lisa See (2009). “Shanghai Girls: A Novel”, p.210, Random House

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• No one in my family or my circle of friends had ever had to confront something like this. Jamie was seventeen, a child on the verge of womanhood, dying and still very much alive at the same time. I was afraid, more afraid than I'd ever been, not only for her, but for me as well. I lived in fear of doing something wrong, of doing something that would offend her. Was it okay to ever get angry in her presence? Was it okay to talk about the future anymore?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Children, Circles, Dying

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jul 20, 2011

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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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• These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw, poster children for the human condition.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, People, Awkward

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• Did you really JUST fall, Jeffrey? Why does everybody in my family talk in these dramatic CAPITAL LETTERS all the time? Why am I the only calm one?

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Fall, Doe, Letters

  Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.15, Scholastic Inc.

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• I took notes on the people around me, in my town, in my family, in my memory. I took notes on my own state of mind, my grandiosity, the low self-esteem. I wrote down the funny stuff I overheard. I learned to be like a ship's rat, veined ears trembling, and I learned to scribble it all down.

  Anne Lamott

  Memories, Self Esteem, People

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.23, Anchor

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