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The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.
Armstrong Williams
Family Father Job School Work
Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.
Dennis Prager
Family Liberals Society Success
Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn’t listening.
Emma Thompson
Communication Family Listening
In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.
Anna Quindlen
Family People Time
I don’t think anyone has a normal family.
Edward Furlong
Family
I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.
LeBron James
Family
No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn’t have encouragement, but I didn’t have discouragement, because I don’t think anybody knew what that meant.
Amy Tan
Discouragement Encouragement Family Fiction Literary
There is no social program in this country that is as important as a good job that pays well, that gives someone an opportunity to go to work, have some security, have benefits, and take care of their family and have a good life.
Byron Dorgan
Benefits Care Country Family Job Life Opportunity Security Work
I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
Wanda Sykes
Business Family Funny
Tune in to Kids and Family Week is perfect for me.
Melissa Joan Hart
Family Kids
Loyalty to the family must be merged into loyalty to the community, loyalty to the community into loyalty to the nation, and loyalty to the nation into loyalty to mankind. The citizen of the future must be a citizen of the world.
Thomas Cochrane
Community Family Future Loyalty Mankind Nation World
My whole family actually, but my parents. I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I’ve been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don’t talk about the business and I still have stuff to do at their house.
Kaley Cuoco
Business Childhood Family Parents Talk
If you feel rooted in your home and family, if you’re active in your community, there’s nothing more empowering. The best way to make a difference in the world is to start by making a difference in your own life.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Community Difference Family Home Life Nothing World
Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.
Jessica Savitch
Attitude Conflict Danger Family Focus Interest Potential
We’re an ideal political family, as accessible as Disneyland.
Maureen Reagan
Family
Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.
Sister Parish
Family
I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.
Edgar Guest
Family World
I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn’t have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way.
Corazon Aquino
Children Faith Family People Religious Support
I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.
Marie Curie
Career Family Life Women
I mean, I would never want to do anything to hurt my family, but then again I would never want to do anything to hurt myself. And I think they go hand in hand.
Lauren Bush
Family Hurt Want
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
Family Fear Grief Sorrow
The husbands, who sometimes have another family who’s grown, are going, Now I can spend time with my baby. Oh yeah, I bet your other family is really thrilled.
Jackie Collins
Baby Family Husbands Now Time
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible – the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Virginia Satir
Communication Family Feelings Mistakes Open Rules Worth
I’ve devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don’t have to depend on writing fiction for my income.
George Stephen
Advertising Business Effort Family Fiction Income Past Support Time Writing Years
My wife, my family, my friends – they’ve all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.
Nicholas Sparks
Emotion Family Friends Giving Love Wife
My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don’t need the money, but there’s an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There’s a love there; we’re a band of brothers.
Stevie Nicks
Brothers Family Love Money Road
Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It’s been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It’s a great town.
Faith Hill
Family World
And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor.
Damon Wayans
Family Humor Key
The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
Rafael Palmeiro
Deals Family Life
Of course, my family has been a big reason for me to come back, especially my son who loves the game of hockey – he was a big reason for me coming back.
Mario Lemieux
Family Reason Son
We believed in our idea – a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
Walt Disney
Children Family Fun Idea Parents
I think we’ll still be a family restaurant, we’ll be contemporary, we’ll be lifestyle, we won’t be old, we won’t be 60 years old in the view of the consumer.
Jim Cantalupo
Family Old Years
Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products.
Charles W. Pickering
Family Hope Importance Legislation Programming Public
I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.
Lisa Bonet
Family Moments Racism Sheep
In six short years, small business owners and family farmers will once again be assessed a tax on the value of their property at the time of their death, despite having paid taxes throughout their lifetime.
Doc Hastings
Business Death Family Property Tax Taxes Time Value Will Years
You have to defend your honor. And your family.
Suzanne Vega
Family Honor
When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.
Barry Levinson
American Family Idea Television
When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people’s weirdness in that way.
Jonathan Franzen
American Family Hope People
I am living in Norway, where I am under the care of the best cancer doctor in Norway and I can be closer to my family.
Grete Waitz
Cancer Care Family Living
You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a… very brutal disciplinarian.
Lynn Johnston
Abuse Daughter Family Father Mother Son
I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished.
Christiane Amanpour
Admiration Company Family Love Past Respect Years
I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.
Lewis Grizzard
Family
I’ve always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you’d want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn’t laugh, you were in trouble!
Leslie Nielsen
Brothers Comedy Family Father Funny Want
It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you’re happy when you wake up.
Michael Pitt
Family Friends Success
I was always the shame of the family – the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.
Randy Harrison
Family Shame Yankee
How many people have a family grave in the backyard? I’m sure I’ll end up there, or I’ll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room. I’ll get more tourists to Graceland that way.
Lisa Marie Presley
End Family Grave Living People Tourists
I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family.
Sanford I. Weill
Ability American Dream Family Sky Work
I’d like to do more family dramas.
Aaron Eckhart
Family
There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together.
C. Everett Koop
Family Jobs May Order Parents
Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It’s been great having such a supportive family.
Nancy Kerrigan
Brothers Family Home Now Parents
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