Family Quotes

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

“A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.”

Men Names Family

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JA

Founding Father, Politician

“Your Letters concerning Miss N. have given me as much Concern as they ought-not knowing the Character nor what to advise, but feeling all a Fathers Tenderness, longing to be at home that I might enquire and consider and take the Care I ought.”

Home Father Family

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Jimi Hendrix

Musician, Guitarist

“Click bang, what a hang, your daddy just shot poor me.”

Family Daddy

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Jimmy Buffett

Musician, Author

“Never did I think that I became family entertainment.”

Thinking Family

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Jimi Hendrix

Musician, Guitarist

“You may almost forget the smell of your family.”

May Family Smell

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Moliere

Playwright, Actor

“You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?”

Thinking Marriage

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Lou Reed

Musician, Songwriter

“I'm too old to do things by half”

Life Love

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JA

Founding Father, Politician

“I am well pleased with what I hear of you: The principal Satisfaction I can expect in Life, in future will be in your good Behavior and that of my other Children. My Hopes from all of you are very agreable. God grant, I may not be disappointed.”

Children May Family

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Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates

Author, Poet

“What is a family, after all, except memories? Haphazard and precious as the contents of a catch-all drawer in the kitchen.”

Memories Family Kitchen

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Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates

Author, Poet

“In families there are frequently matters of which no one speaks, nor even alludes. There are no words for these matters. As the binding skeleton beneath the flesh is never acknowledged by us and, when at last it defines itself, is after all an obscenity.”

Family Flesh Skeletons

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JA

Founding Father, Politician

“I am quite content to come home and go to Farming, be a select Man, and owe no Man any Thing but good Will. There I can get a little health and teach my Boys to be Lawyers.”

Home Boys Family

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JA

Founding Father, Politician

“If my superiors shall permit me to come home, I hope it will be soon; if they mean I should stay abroad, I am not able to say what I shall do, until I know in what capacity. One thing is certain, that I will not live long without my family.”

Mean Home Family

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