Our Family Quotes - Page 22

• Nobody said it's going to be easy. You have to dig into yourself. Think about your family. Think about the journey itself. THINK IN THE MOMENT.

  Meb Keflezighi

  Journey, Thinking, Moments

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• You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being, and that of your family and your country.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Decision, Conscious

  "Bill Clinton Explains Why He Became a Vegan". Interview with Joe Conason, www.aarp.org. September 2013.

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• In order for us and our families to withstand the pressures of the world, we must be filled with light and gospel truth.

  Cheryl A. Esplin

  Light, Order, World

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• We as gay people get to choose our family and the people we're around. I am your family. We are a family here.

  RuPaul

  Gay, People, Gay People

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• Education in our family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre ... In this family of accomplished scholars, I was to become the academic black sheep. I performed adequately at high school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.

  Steven Chu

  Brother, School, Sheep

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• A man who envies our family is a man who needs help.

  Yeardley Smith

  Men, Envy, Needs

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• If you never want to see the face of hell, when you come home from work every night, dance with your kitchen towel and, if you're worried about waking up your family, take off your shoes.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Dance, Home, Night

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• When Jesus says you must leave your family to follow Him, he doesn't necessarily mean physically. He means leave your dependence on them, make an emotional break with them.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Jesus, Mean, Emotional

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• The important thing to remember is it's not about balance; it's about integration... to really focus on making sure you're integrating all four aspects of your work, your family, your community and yourself. And it's not about trying to spend equal amounts of time on everything you do each day on each of these things, but making sure you're paying attention to all the things that make it up as a whole human being.

  Padmasree Warrior

  Focus, Community, Balance

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• Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Father, Years, Two

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• The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.

  Elton John

  Business, Blessed, Mean

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. January 25, 2002.

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• We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.

  Douglas Coupland

  Needs, Shared Experiences, Subjects

  Douglas Coupland (2010). “Player One”, p.230, Random House

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• You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing.

  Judith Guest

  Family, Thinking, Live Your Life

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• My mother was a stay-at-home mom until I was about 11, when she got a job - and it was like a light came on inside her. It's not wrong to be passionate about your career. When you love what you do, you bring that stimulation back to your family.

  Allison Pearson

  Mom, Mother, Jobs

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• I think a lot of the time, we don't give our family connections the kind of credit they deserve, like how important they are to us and how much they mean to us. I think family makes all the difference.

  JoBeth Williams

  Mean, Thinking, Differences

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

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• Children, we should visit homes of the poor, orphanages and hospitals from time to time. We should take our family members along and offer assistance and look after the welfare of inmates. A word spoken with love and concern will give them more comfort than any amount of money. That will lead to the expansion of our hearts as well.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Home, Heart

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• To my deep mortification my father once said to me, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family."

  Charles Darwin

  Dog, Father, Science

  Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• I would also argue that there is a good chance that an outline will help you stave off any onslaught of writer's block. Let me advise you right up front that I am not a big believer in writer's block. I think writer's block is God's way of telling you one of two things - that you failed to think your material through sufficiently before you started writing, or that you need a day or two off with your family and friends.

  Terry Brooks

  Block, Writing, Thinking

  Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.76, Del Rey

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• You know, I think I'm more of a micro-person, so to me, the context and the framework of trying to do what you love and feel passionate about, in supporting your family in that way, is the most important thing to me.

  Joan Cusack

  Thinking, Important, Trying

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. May 26, 2008.

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• Surely women's liberation is a most unpromising panacea. But the movement is working politically, because our sexuality is so confused, our masculinity so uncertain, and our families so beleaguered that no one knows what they are for or how they are sustained.

  George Gilder

  Confused, Women, Movement

  George F. Gilder (1973). “Sexual Suicide”, [New York] : Quadrangle

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• Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.

  Oliver Hudson

  Fame, Family Life

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

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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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• I do all the cooking in our family. I'm a utilitarian cook, rather than an adventurous one - I only have about 15 recipes in my repertoire that I rotate - but I love being able to go down to the river and catch a 30 lb. salmon, then grill it on the barbecue.

  Patrick Duffy

  Love Is, Rivers, Cooking

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• I have to say, creating memories is so important to me that I did a book about creating memories for your family.

  Josie Bissett

  Memories, Book, Creating

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• I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.

  Kate Burton

  Growing Up, Important, Spotlight

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