Family Quotes — Page 34

Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.”

Men Character Family

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Kerry Washington

Actress

“I work very physically as an actor. The biggest thing for me has been the challenge of how to be this person [Olivia Pope] with the personal transformation that's going on for me physically... That hasn't been easy. It's been an awesome challenge for me...because so much of how I access character is through my body.”

Work Family Health

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Edward Kennedy

Politician

“I hate to see a young man get ahead on the basis of a famous family name.”

Men Hate

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Bob Dylan

Singer-songwriter

“You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowing.”

Family Snakes

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Lord Byron

Poet, Novelist

“The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.”

Children Home Family

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John Green

Author, YouTuber

“I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.”

Years School Family

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Dalai Lama

Spiritual Leader

“We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our family and friends. Peace and warm-heartednes s can then spread through the community just as ripples radiate out across the water when you drop a pebble into a pond”

Inspirational Change Family

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Brian Tracy

Author, Speaker

“The kindest thing you can do for the people you care about is to become a happy, joyous person”

People Fun Family

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Anne Sexton

Poet, Author

“we do not explain my husband's insane abuse and we do not say why your wild-haired wife has fled or that my father opened like a walnut and then was dead. Your palms fold over me like knees. Love is the only use.”

Father Husband Family

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Toni Morrison

Novelist, Essayist

“Two parents can't raise a child any more than one. You need a whole community - everybody - to raise a child. And the little nuclear family is a paradigm that just doesn't work. It doesn't work for white people or for black people. Why are we hanging onto it, I don't know. It isolates people into little units - people need a larger unit.”

Children Two Family

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