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I've always dreamed of having a large family. -- Lance Bass
A large family makes you accept sharing your parents. -- Martha Reeves
I come from a large family so you can count on the fact that I'm going to have more kids. -- Benjamin Bratt
A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money. -- Anne Northup
I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married. -- Lewis Grizzard
I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children. -- Anne Hathaway
Coming from a large family makes you feel protected - you have friends and allies. -- Paul McGann
I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one. -- Alexander McCall Smith
I had a really hard time growing up; we were a large family, and we didn't have much money at home. -- Luis Suarez
I have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful. -- Sarah Jessica Parker
I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values. -- Dikembe Mutombo
I grew up as the only child, and we did not have a large family. So for me and my mother, our friends tend to become our family. -- Karan Johar
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
I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population. -- Oliver Goldsmith
I wasn't a cliquey person, and I think that's because I came from a large family. I got along with everybody, and I usually got along with the people that people didn't like. -- Amy Sedaris
I was raised in a large family. The first reason for my travel was to get away from my family. I knew that I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't want people to ask me questions about it. -- Paul Theroux
There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps. -- Herbert V. Prochnow
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. -- George Burns
The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness. -- Nancy Mitford
A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship. -- Charles Buxton
And when I look back I recognize now that I indeed do come from a large family of artists. Whether they necessarily realize it or not. -- E.J. Bonilla
I grew up, as reported, in a large family of Catholics without even a decent ration of tentativeness among the lot of us about our religious faith. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
Financial security is crucial for your family, and I have a large family. Money does matter when you don't have it. When you need it, you realise the value of it. In that sense, money will always have value. -- Katrina Kaif
I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's going to get edited. I think that comes from being in a large family, so you have to get your story in really quick or someone cuts you off. -- Amy Sedaris
In the Age of Perfect Virtue, men lived among the animals and birds as members of one large family. There were no distinctions between superior and inferior to separate one man or species from another. All retained their natural Virtue and lived in a state of pure simplicity. -- Benjamin Hoff
In a world often marked by selfishness, a large family is a school of solidarity and sharing; and this attitude is to the benefit of society as a whole.... I always thank the Lord in seeing mothers and fathers of large families, together with their children, committed to the life of the Church and of society. -- Pope Francis
I'll tell you, Liz Cheney is going to be a very good candidate. I worked with her during the Bush campaigns. She's smart, she's focused, she's disciplined - and she's got a great back story. She's got a large family. She's a great mom. And she's a hard worker. I think she's going to be a very effective campaigner. -- Mark McKinnon
I was from such a large family that when I first met my wife, I told her: 'You can go work outside of the house and I'll stay home and continue making my cartoon strips. Maybe I'll make some commercials nearby, you know I'll do anything locally, but I would love to just stay at home and raise the kids like I did when I was growing up.' -- Robert Rodriguez
The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me. -- Nevil Shute
The idea of having a large family, I definitely had a romantic notion of it. -- Jim Gaffigan
That was always a dream of mine, to have a large family, a huge family. -- Nadya Suleman
They had always dreamed of a large family but have now realized that they would be equally blessed to have even one child. -- Jane Green
Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed. -- Henry David Thoreau
I've always been a deep sleeper; because I come from such a large family - there are 10 kids - I could sleep through anything. -- Kurt Vile
As I wrote 'The Christmas Lamp' I realized that tradition is priceless, whether you have a small family, a large family, or no family. -- Lori Copeland
A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals--a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family. -- Carroll Quigley
As I wrote 'The Christmas Lamp' I realized that tradition is priceless, whether you have a small family, a large family, or no family. Tradition doesn't have to be logical; it only has to emphasize the light of Christ and his everlasting love. -- Lori Copeland
[On growing up in a large family with little money:] ... to take a bath ... we just had a pan of water and we'd wash down as far as possible, and we'd wash up as far as possible. Then, when somebody'd clear the room, we'd wash possible. -- Dolly Parton
We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed. -- Henry David Thoreau
My mother was born in the city, my dad was an immigrant. Probably from Germany. Could have been Austria, could have been Poland. The borders were changing. My dad brought over a large family of Shatners when he was very young. Scraped together the money, got 11 brothers and sisters a passage on the boat. There's a lot of Shatners in Montreal. -- William Shatner
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. -- Robert A. Heinlein
I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles. -- Lisa See
But when you come from a large, wonderful family, there's always a way to achieve your goals. -- Wilma Rudolph
Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged, that increases your responsibility. -- Susan Sarandon
The most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it. -- Margaret Sanger
I have a significant other and a large, immediate family. No children, thank goodness. And I have a 13-year-old kitty. -- Andrea Parker
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
Literature can be divided into two large families: the religious and the secular one. The first reveals the origin of stupidity, the second follows its evolution. -- William C. Brown
Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
When we lived in a society where we had large families that lived together, especially in agricultural societies like my grandfather and father grew up in, the result is you always had family around to take care of you. -- Atul Gawande
There are African-American families around this country - a large, large number of African-American families - that operate out of complete fear that their kids are going to be taken from them and will do anything to prevent that. -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults. -- Thomas Szasz
I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give. -- Thomas Jefferson
Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families. -- Margaret Sanger
My family is very large. 42 million. -- Nelson Mandela
My family is large and in charge! Thats my favorite way to describe them. -- Britt Robertson
My family is large and in charge! That's my favorite way to describe them. -- Britt Robertson
A large portion of the weekend effects is explained by differences in the amount of time spent with friends or family between weekends and weekdays. -- Daniel Kahneman
But being is making; not only large things, a family, a book, a business; but the shape we give this afternoon, a conversation between friends, a meal. -- Frank Bidart
What the restored gospel brings to the discussion on marriage and family is so large and so relevant that it cannot be overstated: we make the subject eternal! -- L. Tom Perry
An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it! -- Horace Walpole

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