Our Family Quotes - Page 18

• It's a big deal to bring your family on the road, you know? I'd love to do it sometime, but you have to work out schools and all that.

  Shane Filan

  School, Work Out, Bigs

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• As a homeschooling parent, I have often wondered who learns more in our family, the parent or the child. The topic I seem to be learning the most about is the nature of learning itself.

  Jan Hunt

  Children, Parent, Homeschooling

  Jan Hunt (2013). “The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart”, p.113, New Society Publishers

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• Queens is famous throughout the world for diversity and tolerance. But really it's what we have in common that makes our neighborhoods work, our students succeed, and our families able to care for children and grandparents as they can.

  Grace Meng

  Queens, Children, Diversity

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• There's more to life than basketball. The most important thing is your family and taking care of each other and loving each other no matter what.

  Stephen Curry

  Basketball, Mvp, Important

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• Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up in was to work hard, save hard and to look after your family.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Hard Work, Parent, Migrants

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• When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later.

  Noah Baumbach

  Language, Embarrassed

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• My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.

  Candace Cameron

  Mom, Dad, Next

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

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• How should we provide for our families? Financially, spatially (be near them), emotionally, morally, spiritually. ...I don't have what it takes to provide for my family spiritually; I need Jesus.

  Steve Farrar

  Jesus, Needs, My Family

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• I think charity begins with your family and you take it from there.

  Caprice Bourret

  Thinking, Charity

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• If you don't have your friends and your family, what do you really have? You can have all the money in the world, but with no friends and no family, it's no good.

  Meek Mill

  No Friends, World, Ifs

  "The GQ+A: Meek Mill on Kendrick Lamar, Twitter Hashtags, and Being Rich Forever". Interview with Nate Erickson, www.gq.com. December 20, 2013.

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• At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

  Sam Brownback

  Men, Thinking, Needs

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• There are a lots of clowns in our family - our house is a fun house.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Fun, House, Clown

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• The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your community. Those are the things that can mirror back to you what you're experiencing, and can affirm to you that the stories you are telling are true.

  Dan Chaon

  Mirrors, Giving, Community

  "Dan Chaon: Characters find sense of self" by Michelle Broder Van Dyke, www.sfgate.com. October 8, 2009.

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• My mother was a dominant force in our family. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.

  Dolores Huerta

  Mother, Men, Saws

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• When I'm home, the heart and soul of our family is in the kitchen. Growing up, my parents both worked, so dinnertime was for family - the TV was off. I think it's important to grab that time and really make it special, even after a tough day.

  Cat Cora

  Growing Up, Home, Heart

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• I didn't take the typical path and go to college after high school. Instead, I saved up money from teaching dance classes and moved to L.A. But my family was so supportive - I never felt pressure from them. It's crucial to find a support system, even if it's not your family.

  Dianna Agron

  Teaching, School, College

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• As people get older, we all know, you get married and you have a child and that becomes your family, but when you're 16 years old, especially, your family is your friends.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Children, Years, People

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

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• Music and songs have always been a constant part of my life, and still are. My brother Michael, who is a songwriter and composer, is the one who most fully inherited the musical legacy of our family, but I got some part of it - mostly the feel.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Song, Brother, Musical

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I`d like to address the people of Flint. Your families face a crisis. A crisis you did not create and could not have prevented. I want to speak directly, honestly and sincerely to let you know we are praying for you, we are working hard for you, and we are absolutely committed to taking the right steps to effectively solve this crisis.

  Rick Snyder

  People, Addresses, Want

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I really wanted to get out of that cycle in our family where somebody's taking revenge on somebody for some slight that happened thirty years ago, and the only way to assert one's existence is by climbing over the body of an unfortunate sibling, or with a fellow family member, and you end up even unconsciously rejoicing in the other person's unhappiness and being like, I am happy because I can see how unhappy these other people are.

  Marco Roth

  Revenge, Sibling, Climbing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Everything in our family was always boxing. It was the life my father chose for me.

  Nonito Donaire

  Father, Boxing

  THE RING Interview, www.ringtv.com.

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• I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was, I think, 15, 16. They tried to get her to have an abortion and she refused. So, my 'mama' adopted me, which was really her great aunt, which was really my great-great aunt, who was named Viola Dickerson. I was told that my mother was my sister.

  Eric Dickerson

  Mother, Aunt, Thinking

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• The more you learn about yourself and your family tree, your self-esteem goes up. They will learn archival skills, historical analysis and science skills. You learn all this in the most seductive way, and that is through learning about yourself. Who doesn't like talking about themselves? It doesn't seem like science or history, it's just fun.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Fun, Self Esteem, Talking

  "Black Ancestry Matters on 'Finding Your Roots'". Interview with Alexandra Phanor-Faury, www.ebony.com. January 26, 2016.

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• Most people would rather sit on a plane for two hours than spend two days on a train, but there's nothing comparable to taking a relaxing rail journey with your family or good friends.

  John Paul DeJoria

  Good Friend, Journey, Two

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• This dapper little mouse that wore such cute clothes and said such interesting things, yeah. I thought it was a great idea to have a mouse like that in your family, so now I get to see what it was like.

  Geena Davis

  Cute, Clothes, Ideas

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