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I'm starting my own family, and there is no other feeling like it. -- Daniela Ruah
You know how only you can insult your own family? That's how I feel about Florida. -- Danielle Schneider
I have a great work ethic - from watching Lucille Ball, not necessarily my own family. -- Jenny Lewis
I grew up with a big family. I want that. I want to have my own family. -- Ryan Lochte
For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood. -- Anne Tyler
There's virtually nothing made up in 'The Immigrant.' So much of the film came from somewhere in my family's past. All the details are from my own family. -- James Gray
You have to make your own family, your own life. -- Francesca Lia Block
No society is so precious as that of one's own family. -- Thomas Jefferson
I'm starting my own family and there is no other feeling like it. -- Daniela Ruah
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers! -- Barbara Kingsolver
He is not to be trusted as a friend who illtreats his own family. -- Aesop
The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family. -- Mother Teresa
One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers. -- Willa Cather
It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family. -- Confucius
That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family. -- Plautus
Grandparents...can give the children unity of family life and some knowledge of their own family history... -- Jim Conway
Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least. -- Barbara Kingsolver
No matter how American I become, I'm considered part of the Chinese community by my own family. -- Anchee Min
With gifts, you may gather your enemies about you. When giving nothing, even your own family will leave. -- Sakya Pandita
As children everyone thinks their family is weird and they're upset by the weirdness of their own family. -- Stephen Fry
I have great respect and understanding for military commitment due to my own family's involvement with the armed forces. -- Carolyn Murphy
I want to conquer the world and it seems like my own family is putting a stop to that. -- Kim Wilde
The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine. -- Gail Carriger
The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family. -- Tiger Woods
Without English art, I never would have understood myself, my own family, or the New England world I lived in. -- William Monahan
After so many changes, I realized I'd better cling to my own family and to what I've got right here. -- Suzy Bogguss
I have often wondered whether a person is justified in neglecting his own family to fight for opportunities for others. -- Nelson Mandela
Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you. -- Mary Boykin Chesnut
Mothers, train up your children in righteousness; do not attempt to save the world and let your own family fall apart. -- Ezra Taft Benson
My own family and thousands of other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. It took our nation over 40 years to apologize. -- Mike Honda
My own family and thousands of other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. It took our nation over 40 years to apologize -- Michael M. Honda
Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity. -- Lionel Blue
The whole point of justice consists precisely in our providing for others through humanity what we provide for our own family through affection. -- Lactantius
Migrants all over the world are pushed and pulled across borders by hunger, terror and climate change. It happened to my own family. -- Juan Felipe Herrera
When you study history, you're really studying yourself. Every bit of history I've uncovered about my own family has some remnant in myself. -- John Sedgwick
In my own family, my mother had my sister when I was 15 and for various reasons, I was extremely involved in raising her. -- Rosalind Wiseman
I've been wanting to have my own family since I was young. It just took me a while to find the perfect woman. -- Matthew McConaughey
I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do. -- Nikki Giovanni
I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty. -- Matt Drudge
The Bible says we're to be moderate in all things. It's good to help others but not at the expense of your own family. -- Lori Copeland
The greatest service we can provide to others in this life, beginning with those of our own family, is to bring them to Christ. -- D. Todd Christofferson
To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or her own family? -- Billy Graham
Lucky Us' ends with a description of a photograph of the novel's fictional family. I could never get enough of my own family photo albums. -- Amy Bloom
There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family. -- Gordon Ramsay
Once you get your own family clear in your head, whatever your problems are with it, you're better prepared for being an adult in the world. -- Shirley MacLaine
The Secret River' began because, at the age of 50, I suddenly realised I knew nothing about how my own family had got its foothold in Australia. -- Kate Grenville
A film set becomes its own family anyway, and all family dynamics come out during a shoot. The trick is hiring people who know how to handle that. -- Noah Baumbach
But marrying within one's own family can get monotonous. One has heard all the same family stories, knows all the jokes and all the same recipes. No novelty. -- Margaret George
Every film is its own experience, its own planet, its own family. It seems infinite when you're working on it, and then it's suddenly very finite, and it's done. -- Diane Lane
People tend to fear the ghosts in their own family. You feel these family curses and think, 'If it happened to my father, it could happen to me.' -- Christian Louboutin
I was always an Olsen. I never thought of myself as a Brady. I never actually wanted to be a Brady. I always preferred my own family to the Bradys. -- Susan Olsen
Let's be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
one's enjoyment is doubled when one can share it with a friend - and where can one find a more affectionate, a more intimate friend than in one's own family? -- Marie Antoinette
One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in harmony and to help one another. -- Gerald Brenan
No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished? -- Lee Iacocca
You're married, and suddenly you have your own family. There's a nice comfort in that. That part of your life is certain ... You've got your home in that other person. -- Scarlett Johansson
Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything. -- Margaret Atwood
Most people like it when the pastor says, "family is priority." What they don't like very much is when the pastor actually chooses his own family as the priority over them. -- Carlos A. Rodriguez
Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of your own family on Christmas day. -- Mark Haddon
Among the most disheartening and dangerous of . . . advisors, you will often find those closest to you, your dearest friends, members of your own family, perhaps, loving, anxious, and knowing nothing whatever . . . -- Minnie Maddern Fiske
For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in. -- Gao Xingjian
I will put my heart and soul into making sure that the care your son or daughter or mum or dad receives is the same I would want for my own family. -- Michael Gove
The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved. -- Criss Jami
...I am about eight years old when I first become aware of being other--foreign, outside, separate. Because this lesson comes from my own family, it resonates deeper and truer than playground taunts ever have. -- Soojung Jo
I am about eight years old when I first become aware of being other--foreign, outside, separate. Because this lesson comes from my own family, it resonates deeper and truer than playground taunts ever have. -- Soojung Jo
I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn't really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up. -- Johnny Depp
You can never truly understand or help others, even in your own family, unless you first look thoroughly into your own life and deal with your own sins without compromise, excuses, or evasion (Matthew 7:1-5). -- John C. Broger
Drug culture is extremely prevalent and probably most people know somebody whose life has been affected by drugs, if it's not their own or in their own family, they have friends. It's a never-ending process. -- Macklemore
I tell my children, shut up and let me speak. What I've learned, I have been married for 45 years and in my own family It is that I've learned to stop being judgmental, to listen. -- Malachy McCourt
I think family is the most important thing in the world. I think your own family is the most complicated thing in the world, and I think it's the most beautiful thing in the world. -- Jake Gyllenhaal
Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars. -- Camille Paglia
When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering, and caring for his own family, the whole community of man is sick. -- Cesar Chavez
I went to Catholic school throughout my whole academic life. In fact, my children - my husband and I and our children in my own family now have over 100 years of Catholic education among us. -- Nancy Pelosi
Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom. -- Alice Walker
I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit. -- Angelina Jolie
They taught me that all life forms are important to each other in our common quest for happiness and survival. That there is more to life than just yourself, your own family, or your own kind. -- Lawrence Anthony
I'm pretty quiet. But I love to play sports. I like playing all sports. I'll act goofy at times around my wife and my son, around my own family. I like to have fun in general. -- Steve Blake
Success is a lot of things. In my personal life it is to have my own family with me, to give all my best to let my daughter have a better life than me, better choices. -- Ali Suliman
I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often. -- Nancy Sinatra
If Grandma Goldman ever smiled, she must have done it in the bathroom with the door locked. She had been the undisputed head of her own family, ruling with an iron hand and a mouth full of rocks. -- Edith Konecky
To rein a kingdom efficiently it is necessary, before all, to put into good order the family. It's impossible for a man who doesn't know how to lead his own family to know how to lead a country. -- Confucius
Matt 13:57. Then Jesus told them, 'A prophet is honored everywhere except in his own hometown and among his own family.' The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going. -- George Carlin
Nobody is weirder than your own family, and I think teenagers feel that particularly acutely; the fact that you can walk five steps ahead of your parents and still be in the same family, but refuse to acknowledge it. -- Simon Templeman
My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about - having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character. -- Kevin Hart
When I get a case about discrimination, I have to think about people in my own family who suffered discrimination because of their ethnic background or because of religion or because of gender. And I do take that into account. -- Samuel Alito
Over the years, I observed that many talented graphic designers, including those in my own family, had difficulty getting their designs to market. I thought it would be possible to hold open stationery design competitions where all designers could participate. -- Mariam Naficy
The fight for the right to life is not the cause of a special few, but the cause of every man, woman and child who cares not only about his or her own family, but the whole family of man. -- Mildred Fay Jefferson
There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them. -- Mother Teresa
Each of us must learn to work not just for one self, one's own family or one's nation, but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace. -- Dalai Lama
People come up to us and ask how we knew so much about their own family... I'm talking about people from faraway places, too. I get people from Turkey and Chile coming up to me and saying I wrote about their family. -- Paul Reiser
When I was just a twenty-something, I came to Newark, and I found a connection to the city in a spiritual way. I found a connection here and people here that reminded me so much of my roots and my own family. -- Cory Booker
Sometimes I think that I cheated my own family and my closest friends by giving to audiences so much of the love I might have kept for them. But that's the way I was made; I truly don't think I could help it -- Mary Martin
I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was. I was much more terrified by my own family and real life, you know? -- Tim Burton
Like the women in my family, I've found the women in my lab a hard-nosed, ambitious lot who have gone on to be faculty members at top universities. In my own family, it is my father who is prone to bursting into tears. -- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
I'd prefer if people had no impressions of me. As a kid, I had to tell my own family, "Please, just don't talk about me!" Because they always got it wrong. Always. I just didn't want them to tell anyone anything about me. -- Jack Nicholson
It seems to me that awakening to the full potential of what your life might be - beyond the possibilities of your own family, your own class, your own race, your own neighborhood - that is one of the great gifts that art affords. -- Dana Gioia
When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss. -- Margaret Mahy
Zooey said... It would be very nice to come home and be in the wrong house. To eat dinner with the wrong people by mistake, sleep in the wrong bed by mistake, and kiss everybody good-bye in the morning thinking they were your own family. -- J. D. Salinger
Something I'm going to try to really instill in my own family is a lot of tradition. And, I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let go of them, I relaxed a lot. -- Amy Adams
No matter how great you are at what you do, as long as you remain known only within your own family circles, then you and your talent will die in obscurity and irrelevance. Position yourself to influence the masses by having a media, marketing and communication strategy. -- Archibald Marwizi
By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind. -- Ed Begley, Jr.
We got a lot of letters of people who didn't like them, like my own family who thought they were unnecessary and unpleasant and taking advantage of women in a sad situation - I never saw that. And I think that sometimes, you have to take a risk. -- Vera Wang
What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of color can find someone in their own family who had experienced a migration of some kind, knowing the sense of dislocation, longing and fortitude. -- Isabel Wilkerson
Before i was jumped in i remember Lucky telling us how being in a gang was like having a second family... a family who would be there when your own family wasn't. They would offer protection and security. It sounded perfect to a kid who'd lost his father. -- Simone Elkeles
Architecture might be more sportive and varied if every man built his own house, but it would not be the art and science that we have made it; and while every woman prepares food for her own family, cooking can never rise beyond the level of the amateur's work. -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I just genuinely believe in the concept of redemption and renewal, so I was happy. When I get beyond my feelings, I had my own family and friends and so many women across America come to me and say their blood was boiling, asking me how this could happen. -- Paula Broadwell
My family never owned a home. We leased. -- Aaron Paul
A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions. -- Tea Obreht
One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions. -- Lorna Luft
Everyone in my family is a risk taker in his or her own way. -- Ann Bancroft
In my own upbringing, my family lacked the ability to provide a stable, nurturing environment. -- Ronnie Musgrove
My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. -- Ben Harper
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. -- Leo Tolstoy
Actually, I have my own charity that I started that helps supplement families with terminal children. -- Brad Garrett
I am lucky because my family are comfortably off. My father has his own glass business. -- Rafael Nadal
I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard. -- Rodney Atkins
I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard. -- Paris Hilton
People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own. -- Douglas Coupland
I always loved family holidays, and I had this vision and dream as a little girl of having a big family of my own. -- Brooke Burke
Congress has turned its back on America's working families. There are Teamster families in every congressional district in America, and those families vote. Those who would oppose these families have done so at their own political peril. -- James P. Hoffa

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