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"733 Family Quotes

Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers - I have family everywhere - is the most important thing.

Brothers Close Everywhere Family
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My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.

My Father Didn't Know
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When I was about 14, my family emigrated from England to Australia, and we decided to stop in Bali on the way through.

About Australia Bali Decided
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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.

About Behind Came Changed
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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

Almost AlmostNothing Beyond Child
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I love to see my family together. That's what life is about. It's about family.

About Family I Love Life
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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

Ancestry Beyond Blurred Cannot
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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.

Nas
Because Daughters Fatherhood Help
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When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I've seen out there, you know, the things that's out there that ain't good for her. It's a crazy world we live in.

Nas
Crazy Crazy World Daughter Good
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I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.

Area Children Drop Go
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It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

Always Been Children Clothes
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Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.

Always Asleep Children Even
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Your son and your daughter needs an excellent father more than an excellent college.
College Daughter Excellent Father
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Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

Feeling Flourish Atmosphere Individual
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Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.

Words Expression Action Gesture
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Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor

Parent Teach School
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What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

Parent Linger Past
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As a therapist, I am a companion. I try to help people tune into their own wisdom.

Therapist Companion Wisdom
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It is okay for me to feel angry and to express it in responsible ways.
Me Okay Feel Angry
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So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.

Parent Little Given
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Life is not the way it's supposed to be, it's the way it is. The way you cope with that is what makes the difference.

You Life Way Cope
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Your descendants shall gather your fruits.
Descendant Gather Fruits
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What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?

Ask Being Children Dozen
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I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.

Because Detailed English EnglishTeacher
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The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Advice Advise Best Best Way
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Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

Young Children Concept Death
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You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

Children Asking Growing Refuses
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I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizen.

Citizen Family Father Mother
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

Mother Premonition Felt Good
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

Mother Idea Feeling
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If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders

Children Feet Responsibility Shoulders
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If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

Children Twice Much time Much money
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Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.

Be Brave Bed Brave Desire
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Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.

Criticism Destroy Entire Everyone
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If you are too busy in your church activities to take care of your family, then perhaps we had better find something else for you to do.

Activities Better Busy Care
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I am a full-time mom; that is my first job. The most important job ever. I started my business when he started school. When he is in school, I do my meetings, my sketches, and everything else. I cook him breakfast. Bring him to school. Pick him up. Prepare his lunch. I spend the afternoon with him.

Afternoon Am Breakfast Bring
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My wife doesn't even want to spend 2 hours with me.
Even Hours Me Spend
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It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't be anonymous.

Anonymous Auditions Bad Blessing
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Perhaps my children will live in stone houses and walled towns – Not I.

Children Live Houses Walled
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You're freaked out that you're going to be having a child, and once you're looking after your daughter, it's the most beautiful thing in the world.

After Beautiful BeautifulThing Child
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I make money, my wife spends it.

Money Wife Spends Make money
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The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it.

The House Important Thing
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Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.

Motherhood So Sentimentalised Romanticism
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When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself.
Died Booked Studio Work
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.

Able Coast Enjoy Gulf
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South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out.

Am Brothers Central Cousins
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My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude.

Collar Brother Came Dude
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My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.

Angeles Aunt Father Grade
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I have been very fortunate to have a partner who really stepped up and have wonderful children who do a lot of things that make it easy for Mommy to do this work.

Fortunate Partner Stepped Wonderful
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I know what it feels like to be a young family looking for opportunity in the United States.

Feels Young Family Opportunity
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