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No one should go into debt if a family member gets sick or injured. -- Charles B. Rangel
A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats. -- Jeffrey Kluger
Members of the Senate and House, if they want to send troops into war, should be forced to send a family member. That would really make everyone stop and go, 'Ohhh-kaaay.' -- Will Ferrell
I think it's very important to have the stewardship of a company by a family member. -- Marie-Chantal Claire
My father's a firefighter. He was my whole life. And my brother-in-law and several family members are firefighters. -- Brad Paisley
For me, I have gay family members, and I have a lot of friends in the LBGT community. -- Ashley Wagner
The same regions of the brain light up when someone touches their smartphone as when they touch a family member or a pet. -- Matt Cohler
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
I went to Jersey City State College to please a family member. I wasn't prepared for school. To say I failed out is putting it nicely. -- Derek Luke
I don't want to be your hero. I want to be your brother. You know, I want to be your family member. I want to be your equal. -- Tom Shadyac
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
Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis. -- Norman Finkelstein
To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides. -- Dennis Banks
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
Women and girls are disproportionately affected by landmines. They have different needs when it comes to education about risks. And they may face greater challenges when a family member is killed or injured. -- Ban Ki-moon
I Know You Care' is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it's about losing a family member and also about a breakup. It's about this idea of losing someone for good. -- Ellie Goulding
I stole a significant amount of money from a family member. I knew I was going to get caught, but I was so desperate I didn't care. It was a cry for help. -- Cory Monteith
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
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
I'm trying to tell kids if they are gay, it's OK to be gay. I've tried to tell families if they have a gay family member to accept them and love them as they always have. -- Jeanne Phillips
My original interest in the Nazi holocaust was personal. Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis. -- Norman Finkelstein
We use tools such as email, not just as a way to keep in daily touch with family members who live in other cities, but also as a way to keep in touch with staff and members of the public. -- Tipper Gore
I think it's been a little difficult at times for the audience, because they've told me they see me as a family member. So to see your little sister sing about sex... I think they are pretty used to it now. -- Janet Jackson
But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was. -- Brett Favre
Several companies have explicit policies against cronyism, with good reason. Hiring a family member simply for a relationship can be troubling and may not necessarily serve a company's interests. But by and large, financial firms in particular commonly hire people who have certain connections, whether through family or a business relationship. -- Andrew Ross Sorkin
I think 'Tattoo's a song that can go so many different ways. Some people think of it as a break-up song, but, for me, it's about somebody who comes into your life and really touches you - be they a friend, a family member or someone you're in a relationship with. -- Jordin Sparks
If you have any setback in your life, like not being in the England squad was for me - any setback, like losing a family member - everyone handles it in different ways. When I first wasn't included I was numb. I'd been the main England striker for years and years. It was really disappointing. -- Michael Owen
Once you do embark upon the separation or divorce process, it is very important to remember three key things: Be kind, be reasonable, be brief. Remember that this person will no longer be your spouse, but he or she will continue to be your co-parent, family member, and perhaps business partner in certain assets or entities. -- Laura Wasser
Bites are usually not random attacks by strays. The great majority of biting dogs belong to a family member or friend of the victim. When a young child is the victim, the attack almost always occurs in the family home, and the perpetrator is usually a 'good' dog that had not previously behaved in a menacing way. -- Jon Katz
Back in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family table at dinner time and exchanged our daily experiences. It wasn't very organized, but everyone was recognized and all the news that had to be told was told by each family member. We listened to each other and the interest was not put on; it was real. -- Bob Keeshan
The traditional family table is round. No corners. No sides. No head. No tail. Everything is smooth. The food is in the center, and each family member reaches over the same distance. Someone you love is next to you on each side, and no one is last or at the end. The person farthest away from you is also the person facing you. -- Deng Ming-Dao
My father wasn't perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there. -- Adam Sandler
Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members. -- Martha Reeves
Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members. -- Malcolm Fraser
It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions. -- Steve Earle
People think I'm so confident. Close family members can see through that. -- Katie Price
I've still got family members living below the poverty line in New York. -- Tracy Morgan
My family members are vegetarians, but I like mutton and chicken seekh kebabs. -- Suresh Raina
Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis. -- Norman Finkelstein
So many people, including stark conservatives, have family members and close friends who are gay. -- Paul Singer
Occasionally, family members treat each other with less courtesy and kindness than they do acquaintances or even strangers. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
We have thousands of patients and family members who are dealing with dual devastation, cancer and the hurricane. -- Greg Anderson
Putting a family member in jail is a good sign there is something seriously wrong in the home. -- Ricki Lake
Let us open wide the windows of our hearts, that each family member may feel welcome and 'at home. -- Thomas S. Monson
Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so. -- Ingrid Newkirk
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm. -- Pamela Ribon
If you have a family member who maybe is undocumented, then you have an even greater reason to vote. -- Barack Obama
Patience with family members and others who are close to us is vital for us to have happy homes. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
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
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
There's nothing quite so irritating to an author as a family member's easy confidence that, of course, the book will come. -- Carolyn Hart
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Extend your commitment to your family members. Have respect for elders and be nice to them.they are your soft pillow -- Kishore Bansal
I come from the countryside. I come from a bunch of horticulture family members. My best friend was a farmer's boy. -- Luke Evans
When things get tough, you should seek out someone like a coach or friend or family member to talk things through with. -- Bridgit Mendler
If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters. -- Shirley MacLaine
80% of the people who come into a Christ-following relationship is because a friend, co-worker, family member or neighbor invited them to church. -- Johnny Hunt
I have close family members as well as lots of close friends who are gay. Many of them strongly support gay marriage. -- Tony Abbott
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
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
The mere idea of asking a family member if they intentionally stopped sending me an annual bonus makes me feel like breaking out in hives. -- Mallory Ortberg
One loves one's country the way one loves a family member. And sometimes that family member does really embarrassing, shitty things. But you still love them. -- Matt Taibbi
I get a lot of letters, mostly from family members who have been affected by cancer rather than young people themselves. I reply to them all. -- Jenny Downham
Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home. -- Shannon L. Alder
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
There are lots of people in the Silicon Valley who are interested in working at a fast-moving, dynamic company like Google. Not just my family members. -- Susan Wojcicki
How we treat our invalids - our mad, our physically or mentally compromised family members - does tell you something about who we are politically, historically, culturally. -- Samuel R. Delany
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
Losing a family member is extremely difficult for anyone to take. But the normal reaction is to want to get back to your work as soon as you can. -- Charlie Adam
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
It's always great to have a family member who knows exactly what you're going through in every way, shape, and form, and I'm blessed to have that in my sister. -- Frankie J. Grande
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
Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant. -- Alan Dundes
There is a compulsion that is perhaps the heart of life's meanings, this marvelous mystery of blood ties that brings joy whenever a new family member comes on the scene. -- Walter Cronkite
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
Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member. -- Ang Lee
Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis." -- Norman Finkelstein
Honestly, I think some of my family members of a certain generation were more skittish about me playing a gay character on Six Feet Under than watching me play a killer. -- Michael C. Hall
To be successful in the family the father must have the welfare of each family member at heart and his decisions and plans must be based upon what is best for them. -- Helen Andelin
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
One thing that's likely: How you look as you age is hereditary. Some of my family members, for example, look younger than their real age. And people have mistaken me for 30, even 25. -- Cynthia Kenyon
Our favorite teams bring people together, keep family members close, bond people from different generations. Some of the happiest moments of my life involve something that happened with one of my teams. -- Bill Simmons
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
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 stole a significant amount of money from a family member. I knew I was going to get caught, but I was so desperate I didn't care. It was a cry for help -- Cory Monteith
If I see another game that involves a kidnapped princess, queen, king or other royal family member, I'll scream. In the same vein, I think the karate genre has been done to death. -- Andy Eddy
Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends. -- Holly Hunter
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
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
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
The less concerned with aesthetics and usability these friends and family members are, the more easily they navigate sites and applications I can't make head nor hair of. Like the ex-girlfriend who mastered Ebay. -- Jeffrey Zeldman
If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer. -- Paul D. Boyer
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
My experiences always influence my writing, but usually only on an emotional level. I have experienced death of a family member and it's easy to dredge up those feelings and get them on the page. -- Kim Smith
If the police believed that they were planning any form of resistance against the state, then you were just gone. Nobody knew where you were, and you just hoped to see that family member again. -- Trevor Noah
I guess I'm happy that I'm getting the attention. Otherwise, I'd just be playing in a local bar in front of my family members, and I'm sure they'd get sick of that in no time. -- Gavin DeGraw
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
There was a way in which my grandmother's true self was not these guests' business; no one's true self was the business of more than a very small number of family members or close friends. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
Anyone who has ever experienced dehumanized life on welfare or any other confidence-shaking dependency knows that a paid job may be preferable to the dole, even when the handout is coming from a family member. -- Gloria Steinem
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
Traditional nursing facilities are sterile institutions rather than homes - which is why many Americans do not want to live in one or want this as their only option for themselves or their family members. -- Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
After praying, and before eating anything, it is a good custom for everyone to feed one another a small portion of the food. This will help to cultivate mutual love and affection among the family members. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
If somebody doesn't want to cook at home or has more family members than they have room for, then it's great to be in a city that's got restaurants that are actually busy on the holidays. -- Danny Meyer
While I've won five Junos, I've donated four of them to the National Archives in Ottawa. Which left my fifth Juno sitting, seemingly abandoned by its four family members, on my bookcase in my dining room. -- Dan Hill
As for suspense, I like to write books that draw you into the hero's plight from the opening pages, where people put their lives on the line for something - a belief, a family member, the truth. -- Andrew Gross
You walk into someone's house and they're dying, or they've got a family member who is dying. Your needs are minor; you're there to serve and to advise and to educate. You're not there to provide yourself. -- Steven Amsterdam
I took time off from school and traveled to Italy when I was 19, living with my extended family members. I must have slept in 30 different houses those months, taken in by people who'd never even met me. -- Christina Perri
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
In focusing towards the outer world, we celebs forget to focus on our inner well-being. We don't lead perfect lives, and only when we learn to have peace with our family members can we have peace in life. -- Shilpa Shetty
The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives. -- M. Russell Ballard
According to FBI statistics for 2008, only 22 percent of murder victims were killed by strangers. More than 30 percent were slain by family members, boyfriends, and girlfriends. Nearly half of all murders were committed by friends, neighbors, and casual acquaintances. -- Alafair Burke
Just because you have a disagreement with your friends or family members does not mean there are not plenty of other areas on which you see eye to eye. It just means you have a difference of opinion. -- Victoria Osteen
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
Losing a family member, and her dying knowing she didn't have to die, that...is a scar that will last forever for the people remaining, and even with good actions and good words, that scar will never disappear. Ever. -- Kim Du-han
Facebook may not only propagate cyber-loneliness but exacerbate the pain of loss that estranged family members feel when they hear only indirectly, through a third-party posting, news of a child or parent with whom they have not spoken in years. -- Eugene Kennedy
We've all gone through some kind of betrayal, whether it's with a boyfriend or a friend or a family member. That's why this is so relatable to everybody because we all know what it feels like to feel that betrayal. -- Cameron Diaz
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
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
If you don't make a conscious choice... someone else will decide for you. It may be your boss, a family member, an advertiser, a collective social influence, or someone or something else, but it won't be something of your deliberate choosing. -- Steve Pavlina

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