Our Family Quotes - Page 6

• For all the drama we all have with our families and all the tension and hostility, I couldn't have done this without my family. Being the people that they are - they're crazy - made it possible for me to be crazy and to live a lifestyle of my own design.

  Dan Colen

  Crazy, Drama, People

  Interview with Ryan McGinley, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2010.

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• You have to tease your family. You tease the ones that you're closest to.

  Parvesh Cheena

  Tease, Closest

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• You don’t pick your family, you take what you’re given and you make the best of it.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Given, Make The Best Of It, Picks

  Joe Abercrombie (2009). “Before They Are Hanged: The First Law: Book Two”, p.207, Hachette UK

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• The bagel is a lonely roll to eat all by yourself because in order for the true taste to come out you need your family. One to cut the bagels, one to toast them, one to put on the cream cheese and the lox, one to put them on the table and one to supervise.

  Gertrude Berg

  Lonely, Cutting, Order

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• Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself. So protect your families! See in them your country’s greatest treasure and nourish them always by prayer and the grace of the sacraments.

  Pope Francis

  Country, Prayer, Greatest Treasure

  Pope Francis' Speech during the Meeting with Families at the Mall of Asia Arena in Manila, Philippines, w2.vatican.va. January 16, 2015.

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• If you want to have world peace, go to your house and love your family.

  Mother Teresa

  Love You, House, And Love

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• For me, success is being able to give back to your friends, your family, your community, those in need and the world entire.

  Richie Sambora

  Giving, Community, Needs

  Doctorate Award Speech at Kean University, New Jersey, 2004.

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• The whole universe is our home and all residing in it belong to our family... instead of trying to see God in a particular appearance, it is better to see him in everything.

  Neem Karoli Baba

  Home, Trying, Appearance

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• Whoever you hate will end up in your family. You don't like gays?
  You're gonna have a gay son. You don't like Puerto Ricans? Your
  daughter's gonna come home with Livin' La Vida Loca!

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Daughter, Hate

  "Chris Rock: Bigger & Blacker". TV Special, July 10, 1999.

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• You have to overcome negativity and make your dream reality. Even if your family & friends steer you in another directions, do what you want to do. They can't stop you unless you let them.

  Greg Camp

  Dream, Reality, Negativity

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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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• You can open to God through sex. By learning to open your heart and body while embracing and trusting all energies from rough ravishment to sublime gentleness, you can open to be lived by the mystery that lives the entire universe. You can open to be lived by love with no limits, so you are alive as love, offering the deepest gifts of your heart spontaneously and without hesitation, in every moment, at work, with your family and friends, as well as in bed with your lover.

  David Deida

  Sex, Heart, Offering

  "David Deida On Exploring Spirituality Through Sex". bodhitree.com.

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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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• Good evening. A President who lied us into a war and, in so doing, needlessly killed 3,584 of our family and friends and neighbors; a President whose administration initially tried to destroy the first man to nail that lie; a President whose henchmen then ruined the career of the intelligence asset that was his wife when intelligence assets were never more essential to the viability of the Republic; a President like that has tonight freed from the prospect of prison the only man ever to come to trial for one of the component felonies in what may be the greatest crime of this young century.

  Keith Olbermann

  War, Lying, Men

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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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• 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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• 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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• Don't put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life as a writer and our family's life have been enriched by this. I think a writer has to experience new environments. There is that adage: No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer.

  Arthur Hailey

  Country, Believe, Moving

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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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• 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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• 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 want to provide for your family, of course, but you also want them to come along on the journey with you. I haven't achieved all I want to with my life, so I need to continue to push myself.

  Michael Easton

  Journey, Needs, Want

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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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• As we watch the world embrace the Olympics in the coming days, let us remember why the modern Olympics came into being: to bring nations closer together, to have the youth of the world compete in sports, rather than fight in war. As long as we believe our own war-driven thoughts, there will always be war, in ourselves, in our families, and in our world. As long as we believe our thoughts, there will always be war.

  Byron Katie

  Sports, War, Believe

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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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