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"733 Family Quotes

Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret.

Agency Because Car Car Keys
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My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff.

Got Had Little Lived
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I would like to be part of a family, however that looks. Family is really important to me.

Family However Important Like
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Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.

Always Bleak Family Family Life
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Like my dad, I have a Christmas party most years. I like to celebrate and see as many people as possible.

Celebrate Christmas Dad Like
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Honestly, 'Parenthood' was not what I planned. I didn't plan to do another drama. I didn't plan to play a single mom. I didn't plan, even, to do an ensemble show. But I hadn't found anything I liked as much. I just connected to the show.

Another Anything Connected Drama
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I've pretty much always been on a diet since I was born. And the women in my family struggle, so I find the less I think about food, in a way, the happier I am. In general, I think I eat less the less I think about it.

About Always Am Been
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I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

About Both Bound Duty
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I have a deep tribal sense. I grew up in a synagogue that my ancestors built. I sat in the third row. My family was decent. They were good people; they were handshake people. So I never had a sense of rebellion.

Ancestors Built Decent Deep
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The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.

The family Important Human beings
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The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
Parent Train Children Equal importance
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I want to make sure my family's straight.
Family Make Straight Sure
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My father was often angry when I was most like him.

Angry Father Him Like
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Nah, I've always had a great relationship with my two brothers, I have always had their support in my football and in everything. They've been very close to me and we have a great relationship.

Always Been Brothers Close
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I know how much parents love buying clothes for their kids and how they want to give them something new in the closet.

Buying Closet Clothes Give
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A small gold plain cross was passed down from my grandma to my mom, then to me, and now to my daughter. It is always nice to own something that connects you to the women who made it possible for you to exist.

Always Connects Cross Daughter
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I want to spend as much time as possible with my children, so I always like to keep my beauty and fashion routines effortless... but still chic!

Always Beauty Chic Children
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Every girl needs a father who’s a hero in some way or another.

Every girl Father Hero
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My father loved to take us on historical vacations, and you should have seen the stares we received in East Berlin.

Berlin East Father Historical
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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Children Home Leave More
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I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.

Big Children Everything Grow
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TV started for me just as a means of keeping my husband Desi off the road. He'd been on tour with his band since he got out of the Army, and we were in our 11th year of marriage and wanted to have children.

Army Band Been Children
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No matter how much money I ever get, I'm going to want to provide for my family and never have to go back to really struggling. You don't ever want to go outside, you don't ever want to be left in the cold. You want to be safe.

Back Cold Ever Family
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And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.

Armstrong Because Came Dad
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I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.

Banjo Between Birthday Father
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People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.

About Baseball Baseball Players Bring
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My family very much adored me, and at school, I was an object of fascination.

Adored Family Fascination Me
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When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door.

Asking Door Family Join
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What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her.

Became Brother Distinguished Her
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I have a sense of destiny because of my mother, who was an extraordinary person but a terrible candidate for mother. She was like the god Cronus, who gave birth to his children in the morning and then ate them at night.

Ate Because Birth Candidate
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Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

Everybody Family Feed Forget
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I think the best thing about being James Brown is looking at my little son. Hopefully I can make my son a role model to a lot of people.

About Being Best Brown
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My family is everything. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.
Am Because Brother Education
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My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.

Also Artist Electrical Engineer
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I have people ask me if I'm going to convince my daughters to be Democrats, and I say, 'I have yet to convince my daughters to close a door.' I don't how in the world I would ever convince them to be in a political affiliation.

Affiliation Ask Close Convince
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My mother, Ms. Nippy Carville, was a woman of many talents.

Many Mother Ms Talents
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I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.

Demands Disproportion Fault I Think
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When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.

When you Deal Your brother Pleasant
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In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

In peace Children Parent War violates
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I have a son, who is a... not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of himself. And the great fear of then, of all parents is, when the parents die, who takes care of your child? And the answer is: they become homeless.

Answer Become Cannot Care
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Once your kids get older and get out of the house, it's not like it stops. They're on the phone with me every day; I'm intimately involved in their problems.

Day Every EveryDay Get
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I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

Age Allowed Child Coming
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When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.

Come home My daughter Door Hug
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That's the great thing about parenting. You end up going places you never thought you'd go.

Great thing Parenting End up Never thought
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The activity of being a husband, a father - those are roles, too, but underneath them is the spiritual center that connects us all, and that's what's most important.

The activity Husband Father Underneath
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My mum and I are, in many ways, quite similar. We're both creative, gregarious, and energetic.

My mum Similar Creative
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What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.

Before Born Family Matters
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I grew up in a house with a lot of kids, brothers and sisters. So I don't mind a lot of talking, yelling, playing. I can tune most of that out.

Brothers Brothers And Sisters Grew House
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My wife and kids like the quiet and the countryside - I still find that kind of quiet hard to listen to.

Countryside Find Hard Kids
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I would say my grandmother would be like my personal god.
God Grandmother Like Personal
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