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When I'm at my grandparents', I know I literally have to do nothing but relax, enjoy myself, and enjoy my family members' company. -- Tyson Chandler
He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy. -- Chanakya
Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account. -- Chris Christie
It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions. -- Steve Earle
Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis. -- Norman Finkelstein
Occasionally, family members treat each other with less courtesy and kindness than they do acquaintances or even strangers. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Patience with family members and others who are close to us is vital for us to have happy homes. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm. -- Pamela Ribon
I come from the countryside. I come from a bunch of horticulture family members. My best friend was a farmer's boy. -- Luke Evans
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If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters. -- Shirley MacLaine
Every American should have a say in the memorials we choose to build in our nation. Family members have a special responsibility. -- Susan Eisenhower
The sickness of a family member, friend or neighbor is a call to Christians to demonstrate true compassion, that gentle and persevering sharing in another's pain. -- Pope John Paul II
I was not very keen on joining the family business... there were 14 family members working together, and it worried me that I would not have enough individuality. -- Uday Kotak
In the Middle Ages, I think the French kings murdered slightly fewer of their family members than the English kings, though I haven't actually counted the heads. -- Karen Maitland
I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy. -- Robert Redford
Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day. -- Emo Philips
And now we're apart and you're just some stranger who knows all my secrets and all my family members and all my quirks and flaws and it doesn't make sense. -- Gaby Dunn
I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other. -- David Selby
I have a lot of LGBT friends and family members and I've always supported the community, not only as a child but as an adult, and I think it's important to voice that. -- Lana Parrilla
Sometimes when family members least deserve love, they need it most. Love is not appropriately expressed in threats, accusations, expressions of disappointment, or retaliation. Real love takes time, patience, help, and continuing performances. -- Marvin J. Ashton
Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher. -- Joe Manchin
If you have a friend or family member with breast cancer, try not to look at her with 'sad eyes.' Treat her like you always did; just show a little extra love. -- Hoda Kotb
Most Americans have some experience with nursing homes or other long term care settings, and nearly half have had a family member or close friend in a home in the past three years. -- Michael Burgess
The overall goal [of counseling] is to help family members become 'systems experts' who could know [their] family system so well that the family could readjust itself without the help of an expert. -- Murray Bowen
I have many friends and family members who have served (or are currently serving) in our nation's Armed Forces. I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out. -- Karl Malone
I have learned so many things from my mother about the right upbringing, the right values, value for money, value for elders, for family members. I think these things only a parent can teach you. -- Karisma Kapoor
It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back. -- Edwidge Danticat
If you have a friend or a family member who's bipolar, or has panic attack disorder, or is depressed, read up on it a little bit so you can get to know where they're coming from. -- Eric Millegan
Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us. -- Gloria Steinem
Thanksgiving is the day when you turn to another family member and say, 'How long has Mom been drinking like this?' My Mom, after six Bloody Marys looks at the turkey and goes, 'Here, kitty, kitty.' -- David Letterman
One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
The church acknowledges some Scientologists choose to sever communications with family members who leave. The church says it is a fundamental human right to cease communication with someone. It adds disconnection is used against expelled members and those who attack the church. -- John Sweeney
The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God's people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation. -- Joyce Meyer
The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money by fiat or deflate the size of their debt unilaterally and that family members die instead of existing infinitely. -- Matt Taibbi
You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn't depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family. -- Trenton Lee Stewart
Lovers and even some family members may come and go but the friendships that take root abide. Sometimes the best of what is true survives as if it had an independent will: The coals of friendship keep themselves alive until something happens to rekindle them. -- Joan Frank
Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them. -- Jeffrey Kluger
To be a baby elephant must be wonderful. Surrounded by a loving family 24 hours a day. Touched by the family, cuddled and comforted. A tremendous love and compassion exuded by every family member. I think it must be how it ought to be, in a perfect world. -- Daphne Sheldrick
If you're not comfortable with public speaking - and nobody starts out comfortable; you have to learn how to be comfortable - practice. I cannot overstate the importance of practicing. Get some close friends or family members to help evaluate you, or somebody at work that you trust. -- Hillary Clinton
I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war. -- Ben Barnes
I've been blackmailed a billion times. I've been sued for ridiculous things. At one point in my life, I was an ATM machine. But I'm used to that. You don't get used to it, but I'm used to the fact that people will do this, even your own family members, and I don't hate none of them. -- R. Kelly
I literally have over a thousand emails in my inbox that need to be returned. I'm sure all of my friends and certain family members are like, 'Oh, look who got nominated for an Emmy and doesn't want to write me an email back!' I need a good few hours to just sit and get on the phone. -- Max Greenfield
Unhealthy families discourage individual expression. Everyone must conform to the thoughts and actions of the toxic parents. They promote fusion, a blurring of personal boundaries, a welding together of family members. On an unconscious level, it is hard for family members to know where one ends and another begins. In their efforts to be close, they often suffocate one another's individuality. -- Susan Forward
When I go back to family reunions everybody goes, 'Hey cousin! Hey Auntie!' And I'm like, 'Okay I don't know you, I have no idea who you are.' I am auntie and cousin for so many and even the ones in prison call me collect. And I'll be like, 'Which of my family members are giving you this phone number?' -- Sherri Shepherd
Our most basic institution of family desperately needs help and support from the extended family and the public institutions that surround us. Brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, grandparents and cousins can make a powerful difference in the lives of children. Remember that the expression of love and encouragement from an extended family member will often provide the right influence and help a child at a critical time. -- M. Russell Ballard
Pray regularly for the members of your family. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Dogs aren't like family members, they are family members. -- Frank DeCaro
Love each other. Regard each other as members of one family. -- John Hope Franklin
Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members. -- Malcolm Fraser
Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members. -- Martha Reeves
My family for several generations have been members of the Unitarian Church. -- Leverett Saltonstall
Sometimes when family members least deserve love, they need it the most. -- Marvin J. Ashton
People think I'm so confident. Close family members can see through that. -- Katie Price
We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces ... -- Ivy Compton-Burnett
I've still got family members living below the poverty line in New York. -- Tracy Morgan
Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof. -- Richard Bach
My family members are vegetarians, but I like mutton and chicken seekh kebabs. -- Suresh Raina
I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries. -- Barack Obama
I'm the most successful person in my generation of family members, and that sucks. -- Ice Cube
It isn't the size of the family, it's the interactions of the members inside. -- Michele Borba
Reach out, call your family members, if you have children, call them right now. -- Peter Jennings
So many people, including stark conservatives, have family members and close friends who are gay. -- Paul Singer
I have a wonderful relationship with my friends, family members, and co-workers. I am appreciated -- Louise Hay
Happy is that family where both the husband and wife are mutual members of Christ's body -- William Gouge
Hour after hour, they shouted at me, accused me, insulted me and members of my family. -- Sam Sheppard
Too bad. Family members hit you by accident. Psychopathic whores tend to come back for more. -- Richelle Mead
It is my wish to delight all members of the family, young and old, parent and child. -- Walt Disney
I do not think it is selfish to want to donate a kidney "only" to family members. -- Mallory Ortberg
May our lives and gentle spirit be evident to all that we are members of God's family. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family. -- Gregory Bateson
There will be no more British guys. Unless they are members of the royal family, of course. -- Meg Cabot
All my band members were old enough to be my dad. It was like this family vibe. -- Hunter Hayes
My father's a firefighter. He was my whole life. And my brother-in-law and several family members are firefighters. -- Brad Paisley
One truly affectionate soul in a family will evert a sweetening and harmonizing influence upon all its members. -- Henry Van Dyke
The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that. -- Zara Phillips
Voodoo is a very interesting religion for the whole family, even those members of it who are dead. -- Terry Pratchett
We have thousands of patients and family members who are dealing with dual devastation, cancer and the hurricane. -- Greg Anderson
The only people I have seen who have been truly pushing for the truth are the family members. -- Sibel Edmonds
I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime. -- Julius Caesar
For me, I have gay family members, and I have a lot of friends in the LBGT community. -- Ashley Wagner
The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it -- Margaret Sanger
The secret of a happy home is that members of the family learn to give and receive love. -- Billy Graham
My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college. -- James Earl Jones
The most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it. -- Margaret Sanger
You can experience true delight on the Sabbath from family history work...Finding family members...can bring immense joy. -- Russell M. Nelson
Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so. -- Ingrid Newkirk
One of my hardest parts of my job is to console the family members who have lost their life. -- George W. Bush
Flea stared at us, "I can't decide what's worse. Losing family members or not having a family member to lose. -- Maria V. Snyder
We who are Christians, members of God's family, are called to go out to the needy and to serve them. -- Pope Francis
As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie. -- Pierre Salinger
What we must do is start viewing every cow, pig, chicken, monkey, rabbit, mouse, and pigeon as our family members. -- Gary Yourofsky
I've come to learn that the best time to debate family members is when they have good in their mouths. -- Kenneth Cole
I had friends who died in the 9/11 tragedy; some of my friends lost family members in the aftermath of Godhra. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Many of my family members are teachers in the arts, and I picked up the camera years ago, in high school. -- Steven Sebring
Sometimes the best way to keep peace in the family is to keep the members of the family apart for awhile. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
I have family members that are bipolar. One had a case recently that I witnessed, and it was very, very helpful. -- Trai Byers
Extend your commitment to your family members. Have respect for elders and be nice to them.they are your soft pillow -- Kishore Bansal
Whatever the needs of family members may be, we can strengthen our families as we follow the counsel given by prophets. -- Robert D. Hales
If you want to make a positive impact, no matter how far-reaching, start at home. Treat your family members like treasures. -- John C. Maxwell
I used to get a lot of letters from prisoners. It used to get on my nerves. Especially family members. Everybody's innocent. -- Terry McMillan
People who have had family members killed are able to forgive the murderer because that's the only way they can move on. -- Ming-Na Wen
The resentment that criticism engenders can demoralize employees, family members and friends, and still not correct the situation that has been condemned. -- Dale Carnegie
I have close family members as well as lots of close friends who are gay. Many of them strongly support gay marriage. -- Tony Abbott
Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family. -- Chanakya
No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same. -- Robert Breault
This is the problem with being Indian. It's hard to be one of the family members. Everybody is white usually [in the movie]. -- M. Night Shyamalan
A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. -- George Orwell
The closer the genetic relationship of the family members, as for example father-to-son, as opposed to uncle-to-nephew, the higher the degree of cooperation. -- E. O. Wilson
Like millions of others, I have been plagued by the devastating effects of cancer hitting not one, but multiple members of my family. -- Tom DeLonge
When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement. -- Maya Angelou
I didn't just want to be the one who was always looking around at the weird family members. I wanted to make my mistakes. -- Tig Notaro
'Drugs' and psychedelics are not two members of a family, they are antithetically opposed to each other. The pro-psychedelic position is an anti-drug position. -- Terence McKenna
Bringing all 45 members of my crazy family together, and watching them argue is super awesome. It's good to do it just once a year. -- Milla Jovovich
Through the 'It's About Ability' campaign and with parents and other members of society, we have created a social family for children with disabilities. -- Igor Luksic
Historically, there would always be people among the general population who had family members, friends, cousins who'd done time or who'd been in prison. -- Hank Azaria
The older members of my family always demonstrate education as a cure to a disease but I think education is not a cure. It's immunity. -- Abdullah Abu Snaineh
A lot of family members worked in the joint commodities family business. It was a classic case of capitalism at work and socialism at home. -- Uday Kotak
The only way I've been able to survive the betrayal of lovers, family members, and society is to be able to create as an artist. -- Madonna Ciccone

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