Quotes 461 till 480 of 738.
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Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
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Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.
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Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.
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Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
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Religion I have disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give to them, and that is the Christian religion. If they had that and I had not given them one cent, they would be rich. If they have not that, and I had given them the world, they would be poor.
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Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
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Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.
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School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.
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Shortly after I was born he emigrated to Durban, where members of my mother's family had settled at the turn of the century, and the rest of the family followed soon thereafter
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Simultaneously, my two biggest heroes are Susan Sontag and Morticia Addams from 'The Addams Family.'
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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.
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So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
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So many girls and guys want to find a girlfriend and settle down. But it's fun to be single.
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So many reality shows are scripted and create this fake drama, and it's a bunch of bull. We wanted to do something real and something wholesome and something that's focused on positive family values.
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So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
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Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
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Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.
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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.
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