Our Family Quotes - Page 21

• My mum still wonders when I'll get a real job. These are the questions we discuss at our family dinners.

  Aron Flam

  Jobs, Real, Dinner

  Source: www.vice.com

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• If you don't connect yourself to your family and to the world in some fashion, through your job or whatever it is you do, you feel like you're disappearing, you feel like you're fading away, you know? I felt like that for a very very long time. Growing up, I felt like that a lot. I was just invisible; an invisible person. I think that feeling, wherever it appears, and I grew up around people who felt that way, it's an enormous source of pain; the struggle to make yourself felt and visible. To have some impact, and to create meaning for yourself, and for the people you come in touch with.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Fashion, Jobs, Growing Up

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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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• There is something eternal in the very nature of writing, as is so graphically illustrated by the scriptures themselves. In a very real sense, our properly written histories are a very important part of our family scripture and become a great source of spiritual strength to us and to our posterity

  John H. Groberg

  Spiritual, Real, Writing

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• The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.

  Edmund Burke

  Country, War, Men

  Edmund Burke (1855). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.204

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• [Our family] love our father's image because the only thing we received from him was love and affection. We recognize that our father made incredible damage outside of the home but we ask for reciprocity because the only thing he ever gave us within the household was love.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Father, Home, Family Love

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• You will be faced with facing all the things in yourself that keep you from knowing who you are, you'll have to stand up to roles and definitions that your family and culture have given you.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Knowing Who You Are, Culture, Roles

  Source: www.psychologyart.com

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• I think if you do not enjoy your time, your life, if you do not live intensely and do not spend time with your family, in one way or another it will be reflected in your career.

  Novak Djokovic

  Thinking, Careers, Way

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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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• Politics was sort of a way of life in our family.

  Ann McLane Kuster

  Way

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• My diaries were written primarily, I think, not to preserve the experience but to savor it, to make it even more real, more visible and palpable, than in actual life. For in our family an experience was not finished, not truly experienced, unless written down or shared with another.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Real, Thinking, Diaries

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1973). “BRING ME A UNICORN”

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• Just think: your family are the people most likely to give you the flu.

  Jane Wagner

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Jane Wagner (1995). “My Life, So Far: By Edith Ann”, Hyperion

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• My parents got carried away with the letter P when they were naming the kids in our family. There's me, Paula, my sisters Peggy and Patty, and my brother Pjimmy, spelled with a silent P.

  Paula Poundstone

  Brother, Kids, Names

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• You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form.

  Colin Farrell

  Shapes, Way, Form

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• We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Family, Faces, Members

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (1972). “A house and its head”

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• The American Dream has always focused on building a better life for yourself and your family, striving for success, and even fleeing from religious prosecution.

  Marc Veasey

  Dream, Religious, Fleeing

  "New Year, Same Priority: 2014 Is the Year for Immigration Reform" by Rep. Marc Veasey, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2014.

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• I just didn't like the way we were, in my opinion, being unfairly attacked. I just decided to do what was right for our family.

  Robert Kraft

  Nfl, Way, Opinion

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• I have always stressed to my girls that outer beauty fades but inner beauty lasts forever. Simple things like smiling and looking people in the eye could change someone's bad day into a good one. My mom always said that beauty is as beauty does, and I'm sure it will pass along to all the future generations of our family.

  Tina Knowles

  Girl, Mom, Bad Day

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• I learned how difficult it is to be an artist. There are always compromises. The record company wants you to do this, your fans want you to do this, your family, you can't concentrate on your work. It's a hard thing to be an artist and not give up. That's why I have so much respect for people like Dylan and Neil Young and Tom Waits, because they keep at it. I have a new respect for a true artist.

  Robert Hilburn

  Giving Up, Artist, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• My jobs often end up being our family vacations, and so far it has been great.

  Christopher Gorham

  Jobs, Vacation, Ends

  "Actor Loves New Zealand, Cook Islands". Interview with Jae-Ha Kim, www.chicagotribune.com. June 21, 2011.

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• The important things to me are your faith, your family and your friends. If you have that, you have everything.

  John Wooden

  Important, Important Things, Ifs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We don't have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it's important to be with our family and friends.

  Sara Blakely

  Family, Luxury, Important

  "The New American Couple". Article by Lea Goldman, www.marieclaire.com. March 20, 2011.

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• Your greatest asset is your paycheck. Disability insurance protects you and your family if you are unable to work by providing income which will help pay your bills and take care of your family. It's just as important as life insurance.

  Dave Ramsey

  Important, Income, Care

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• The seven principles of Kwanzaa - unity, self-determinat ion, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith -- teach us that when we come together to strengthen our families and communities and honor the lesson of the past, we can face the future with joy and optimism.

  William J. Clinton

  Responsibility, Creativity, Past

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• This disease of being “busy” (and let’s call it what it is, the dis-ease of being busy, when we are never at ease) is spiritually destructive to our health and wellbeing. It saps our ability to be fully present with those we love the most in our families, and keeps us from forming the kind of community that we all so desperately crave.

  Omid Safi

  Community, Sap, Ease

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