2. All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it. - Chaim Potok
3. I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows. - Cameron Diaz
4. I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family. - Al Roker
5. When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you. - Guy Lafleur
6. Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected. - Christina Milian
7. I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack. - Jodi Picoult
8. When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family. - LaToya Jackson
9. I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future. - LaToya Jackson
10. The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book. - Ron Reagan
11. I don't think anyone has a normal family. - Edward Furlong
12. I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered! - Shirley Manson
13. I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do. - Patrick Warburton
14. I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world. - Amos Oz
15. When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places. - John Cheever
16. My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.' - Harmon Killebrew
17. I love my family. - Manute Bol
18. It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home. - Elizabeth Edwards
19. There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about. - Shirley Knight
20. My family was my guide to my reality. - Haywood Nelson
21. My family background was deeply Christian. - Abbe Pierre
22. I'm thankful to God for having a family that's been there for me. He's been there from the time I was a child to even now with my family helping with my little boy. It's worth more than words could ever describe. That's one of the ways I've been able to stay grounded is thanks to family and God. - Ashton Shepherd
23. A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family. - Kathleen Turner
24. You have to defend your honor. And your family. - Suzanne Vega
25. My family is more important than my party. - Zell Miller
26. One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family. - Robert Byrd
27. The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time. - Christopher Lasch
28. The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types. - Christopher Lasch
29. God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease. - Frank Knox
30. I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five. - Akhmad Kadyrov
31. If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence. - David McCallum
32. I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives. - Richard M. Daley
33. The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music. - Dennis Wilson
34. I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house. - Anthony Anderson
35. Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place. - Margaret Drabble
36. If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family. - Jasmine Guy
37. I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family. - Nastassja Kinski
38. Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table. - Bob Ehrlich
39. Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster. - Agnes Smedley
40. Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them. - Richard G. Scott
41. The most difficult is the first family, to bring someone out of the world. - Richard G. Scott
42. Our family life was certainly not intellectual. - Douglass North
43. We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved. - Julia Barr
44. I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children. - Ednita Nazario
45. Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God. - Christopher Love
46. Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports. - Bernice Weissbourd
47. Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family. - Vartan Gregorian
48. To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. - Buddha
49. I've had my heart broken in a lot of different ways a lot of different times by different people - whether it be a family member, a girlfriend, a friend, just all types of relying on people, making yourself vulnerable to people. - Lil Peep
50. In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century. - Mary Wollstonecraft
51. Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. - Kofi Annan
52. I definitely have a strong sense of my Jewish and Israeli identity. I did my two-year military service; I was brought up in a very Jewish, Israeli family environment, so of course my heritage is very important to me. - Gal Gadot
53. I had a very, very interesting childhood, but, oh my, education was the primary focus in our family. - Katherine Johnson
54. I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful. - John Wooden
55. God has already done everything He's going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you're going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family. - Joel Osteen
56. I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it. - Rodney Dangerfield
57. Tearing apart a community, a business, and a family will make America worse off, every time. - Pete Buttigieg
58. The greatest nation in the world should not have much to fear from a family, especially children, fleeing violence. More importantly, children fleeing violence ought to have nothing to fear from the greatest country in the world. - Pete Buttigieg
59. At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran. - Fidel Castro
60. Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin. - Tim Vine
61. Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. - Earl Nightingale
62. Your most important friendships should be with your own brothers and sisters and with your father and mother. Love your family. Be loyal to them. Have a genuine concern for your brothers and sisters. - Ezra Taft Benson
63. Just growing up and going through life and how tough life was for me and my family, I'm always going to stay humble. - Giannis Antetokounmpo
64. There are times when I'm super-overwhelmed, and everything feels like it's hitting me in the face at once, but I think what's keeping me calm, and who I am by staying true to myself, is my whole family being so supportive and keeping me grounded. They treat me the exact same way they treated me years and years ago. - Shawn Mendes
65. I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I'd have to make a lot of sacrifices. I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream. - Lionel Messi
66. It's pretty easy for me to say that the most important thing in my life is my relationship with Jesus Christ, followed by my relationship with family. And football's later on down the line. - Tim Tebow
67. I know that life is much more than football. We have family and it's all about being happy and healthy. - Virgil van Dijk
68. 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. - Ice Cube
69. Christmas for me is all about spending time with my family. I cherish any chance we have to spend all day together making gingerbread houses, baking cookies, or sitting around and watching movies. - Blake Lively
70. I didn't come in the game tryna be friends with everybody. I do this for my family. - Lil Skies
71. Trust me, I know, you can make mistakes with money and still raise money-smart kids. You can start a new family tradition of handling money the right way. - Dave Ramsey
72. I have lived in Mumbai for more than 20 years, have my domicile here, my home and family here. - Shah Rukh Khan
73. Not all children have the anchor of a strong family. - Kate Middleton
74. What I find appalling is the intrusive nature towards my extended family. - Jeremy Corbyn
75. We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around. - Ryan White
76. I don't want to let my family down; I don't want to let myself down. That's probably the biggest thing I fear. - Sonny Bill Williams
77. I'll tell you what I'm grateful for, and that's the clarity of understanding that the most important things in life are health, family and friends, and the time to spend on them. - Kenneth Branagh
78. As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. - Buddy Hackett
79. I gave all I had. Now I want to enjoy my family. - Diego Maradona
80. I'm a family doctor, and a big part of what I do is preventative care, and breast cancer is one of the illnesses that women suffer from greatly in this country. - Mikhail Varshavski
81. Who would want one's children growing up buying things like bitcoin? I hope to God my family doesn't buy it. It's noxious poison. - Charlie Munger
82. Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life. - Zac Posen
83. The only things that are really permanent are love, family, friendship, and that is a lesson. At the end of the day, that's really what it boils down to. The rest of it is just stuff. - Jared Kushner
84. I think that many black people thought this would be a wonderful and extraordinary thing, for a black family to occupy the White House. Not only black people; a lot of white people thought that, too, but particularly black people. - Randall Kennedy
85. Everyone I'm photographing, I feel like I'm remaking a family, in a way. My brothers and sisters are my heroes. So many of my models resemble them. - Ryan McGinley
86. He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family. - Lance Morrow
87. If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy. - Jack Welch
88. All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning. - Henry David Thoreau
89. He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. - Benjamin Franklin
90. Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. - Oscar Wilde
91. It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction. - Abraham Lincoln
92. The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society. - Maya Angelou
93. At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn't speak. I only spoke to my brother. The reason I didn't speak: I had been molested, and I told the name of the molester to my brother who told it to the family. - Maya Angelou
94. I think I have had so much blessing - I've had my brother, who was brilliant - I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother - Bailey was just all of that. He loved me. - Maya Angelou
95. When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky - in the big cities, too, for that matter. - Maya Angelou
96. I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it's lasting me very well. - Maya Angelou
97. When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon - all served with black beans and rice. It's festive but different. - Maya Angelou
98. In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. - Lao Tzu
99. Actors are one family over the entire world. - Eleanor Roosevelt
100. The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific
occupation. - Eleanor Roosevelt
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