Quotes and Sayings About My Family
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I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.
-- A.M. HomesSource : A.M. Homes (2012). “May We Be Forgiven”, p.108, Granta Books
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But I don't fit. Your family hates me. I make your life difficult." That's where she was wrong. "No, You're my family. And as for making my life difficult, you, Blaire Wynn, make my life complete.
-- Abbi Glines -
I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.
-- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
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I've always just had troubles with my family because I'm psychotic. It had nothing to do with that.
-- Adam Sandler -
I've always tried to fit what I do professionally into my family, rather than the other way around.
-- Adam West -
My family joke that I'm really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11.
-- Adora Svitak -
I think there's a down-to-earthness with Midwesterners and with people from the Midlands - which is where my family is from - in Ireland.
-- Aidan Quinn -
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Education equals choices. I have been blessed with the choice to be anything I ever wanted to be, and I truly owe my happiness to my family and education.
-- Aimee Garcia -
I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.
-- Al Roker -
Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.
-- Alan Jackson -
What motivates me more than money are God and my family.
-- Albert Pujols -
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Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.
-- Alex Haley -
Probably the earliest memories for me would be going to restaurants with my family.
-- Alexander Wang -
Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.
-- Alexis Korner -
And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.
-- Alison Bechdel -
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It's more of the older people in my family.
-- Amber RoseSource : "Amber Rose reveals family race battle: 'They feel like they're more superior or better than an African American'" by Claire Rutter, www.mirror.co.uk. January 18, 2015.
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Eating at home is fine, as I can easily work around the foods that don't agree with me and still eat heartily with the rest of my family. I don't force them to follow my diet.
-- Andrea McLean -
I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on stage, it's a constant,
-- Andrew Dice Clay -
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When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.
-- Anita DesaiSource : "Class Interview with Anita Desai". www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.
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Some people in my family achieved a lot, some people inherited a lot. But I turned my back on the whole thing.
-- Anna ChancellorSource : "Anna Chancellor: My family values". Interview with Caroline Rees, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2012.
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My family and school life are important to me.
-- Anna Chlumsky -
I grew up poor. I had no money. My family was poor. There's things I wanted to do and couldn't. I was an abused wife. Just -- there's tons of things that I couldn't even mention. And for me to come up and to have all of this fame and fortune, it's just.
-- Anna Nicole Smith -
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My family tends to be pretty alcoholic and drug-addicted.
-- Anne Lamott -
I have been somebody who has not written a great deal about the truth of my family's life.
-- Anne Lamott -
In the ’70s it was skateboards, in the ’80s it was drugs, in the ’90s it was art, and now it’s my family.
-- Anthony -
In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.
-- Aravind Adiga -
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I love art. I used to have a painting of Gorbachev that was given to my family by Gorbachev.
-- Armie Hammer -
I had to do what I had to do to keep my family alive. Period.
-- Art Modell