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When I retired in 2002 I had retired to stay home with my family and didn't necessarily think my playing days were over. — Darren Flutie

All that time, my fears - about identity and family and love - were misplaced. It isn't acceptance that extinguishes us, instead, it awakens us. — Eddie Huang

I loved him, but I didn't know how to fix all of the things that were broken in our family. — Brodi Ashton

Because we were Russian, sadness came naturally to us. But so did reading. In my family, a book was a life raft. — Alice Hoffman

Zane sighed. Jovan and Mother were just the same. "Maybe later" meant no. — C.J. Milbrandt

If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

There is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents. — Robert Breault

Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded. — Andy Serkis

Lucy settled into August's kitchen as if they were a family. — Susan Richards Shreve

We were so poor we had no hot water. But it didn't matter because we had no bathtub to put it in anyway. — Tom Dreesen

It feels as though it were just yesterday Grandfather exited my life like a bullet, leaving a bleeding hole behind. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

My dad and me were incredibly close. He was an actor, and so him and I shared this whole movie-world thing closer than anyone else in the family. — Jackie Earle Haley

My parents were the first in our family to go to grammar school. My grandparents were in service. — Sarah Waters

But what did that mean? Was family the ones you were born to, or the ones who took you in? Did the first years of his life weigh more than the rest? — V.E Schwab

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants. — Billy Corgan

My father was the first to read in his family, and he said to me that words were the first beautiful thing he ever knew. — Richard Flanagan

Family time was hard when it was your own family, it had to be twice as hard when you were the girlfriend. — Jennifer Close

My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

My parents, both of them had teachers in their family and were pretty well read. So my father voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower. — Jeff Sessions

If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion. — Richard Baxter

They were more like the grown-up dog whose family loved it but had to move to an apartment in Korea (is it Korea?) where people sometimes eat dogs. — Ann Brashares

Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it. — Ann Brashares

The men my family threw me at were strong and powerful. I could kill this boy with a teaspoon, and for some reason that made me feel comfortable. — Kay Harding

I learned early on that family, as far as my mother and father, were not an option. — Drew Barrymore

The Columbia years are the most sentimental for me. My parents were together through most of that time and we were a happy, sort of normal family. — Nancy Sinatra

Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking. — Jane Austen

My last name is originally Irish. I'm not exactly sure whereabouts it's from, but I've got family branches that were traced back there. — Matthew McConaughey

The Foxhole Court was the only home he needed; he Foxes were his family. — Nora Sakavic

Limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax. His family were enormously — F Scott Fitzgerald

Besides the gifts, the only thing that gave the headstones colour were the memories family and friends had of the people they represented. — S.A. Tawks

We were a very funny family. Humour was the tool with which my brother and I tried to get attention. We were always trying to be the funniest. — Meg Cabot

And I guess when you take away the resentment and disappointment, it's that simple. It is what we do in families: we help, because we were helped. — Anne Lamott

I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family. — Kate Burton

My real priorities were my family - my kids and Bruce - and my work with the E Street Band. — Patti Scialfa

When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places. — John Cheever

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American. — Vivien Leigh

And like most big families, they were loud and secretly thought they were funnier and a little more special than everyone else. — Jennifer Close

In Korea, it's a tradition to inherit your father's business. Unfortunately, I'm the only son in the entire family, so they were forcing too much. — Psy

The boy didn't know where he and his family were, other than one name: Mississippi. — Larry Brown

I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there. — Yogi Berra

Before you were conceived, I wanted you. Before you were born, I loved you. Before you were an hour, I would die for you. This is the miracle of love. — Maureen Hawkins

The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my family's relationship with each other. — Mika Brzezinski

I believe in fate and I believe you were supposed to walk into my life, so Mason could walk into yours. — Ella Frank

You should never forget where you come from, never forget the struggle, never forget the lives that were lost. — Nancy Ring

The Red Sox didn't handle negotiations with any kind of respect for me and my family, and the Rangers were the total opposite. — Mark Teixeira

I grew up near Strasbourg in Alsace, where my family were coal merchants. — Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Funny thing- Morgenstern's folk's were named Max and Valerie and his father was a doctor. — William Goldman

What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way. — David Brooks

If there were people become a real threat to my family,
then I would stop them from doing so in anyway I could. — Toba Beta

I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western. — Charles Kimbrough

My best career decision was probably not giving up when I wanted to. God as well as my family and friends were there for me during my toughest times. — Jeremy Lin

The neighbors were more than neighbors [on Cuba]. They were like part of the family. — Huey Newton

When you have mental illness it's common to be shunned by your family or friends it wouldn't happen if they knew the pain you were in. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

There were three kids in my family. One of each sex. — Henny Youngman

I grew up in a Catholic family in the Midwest. And I knew people of different faiths and people that were atheists and people that were agnostic. — Jim Gaffigan

When Mama prayed, lives were changed. Not much more than five foot tall, but mountains big and small crumbled all away. — Randy Travis

We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews. — Ira Glass

I grew up with an incredibly loving and supportive family that gave me the impression there were a lot of options for me out there. — Esperanza Spalding

Cam had once told her that the Rom believed the entire world was their home. As long as you were with your family you were home. — Lisa Kleypas

And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal. — Alice Hoffman

All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women. — W.C. Fields

I was raised in a lower-income family, and we were wild. — Rene Russo

People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help. — Kazuo Ishiguro

Because isn't that what the holidays are all about - letting your family make you wish you were an orphan? — Shelly Laurenston

The deepest joys and most terrible wounds were both to be had from family. The — Jim Butcher

None of our lives were perfect, we all had faced bumps in the road, loss, and heartache. But together we made our own mismatched kind of family. — Elizabeth Dennis

Sure, we thought the acres
That we tilled were sacred,
But how could we have known
That wheat can haunt like ghosts — Sherman Alexie

I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were. — Diane Cilento

My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the family. — Bill De Blasio

I knew nothing about my mum's family. Her parents were dead by the time she was 14. She was brought up by two aunts, and she only ever met one uncle. — Jasmine Guinness

You were tossed away like a pair of beautiful, brand new shoes that did not quite fit. — Donna K. Childree

My feeling about in-laws was that they were outlaws. — Malcolm X

To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense. — John Irving

I had a really hard time growing up; we were a large family, and we didn't have much money at home. — Luis Suarez

They were as close and as distant as any family. — Kate Tempest

The economic crisis really affected my family - 2006 to 2011 were really bad times. Almost everybody in my family lost their jobs. — Joey Badass

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth. — V.S. Pritchett

I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one. — Alexander McCall Smith

Old man take a look at my life, I'm a lot like you were. — Neil Young

I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family. — Bruno Mars

My family were hitters. If you made them laugh, they didn't hit you. My dad wouldn't hit me if I got him with humor right between the eyes. — Roseanne Barr

I grew up in a family of people who were obsessed with fashion. — Michael Kors

When other girls were dreaming about love, she dreamt of love too, but in an entirely different context - the ones they took for granted. — Donna Lynn Hope

Gods were like opossums. You could go your whole life without seeing one, but once you found one of them, you found the whole freaky family. Every — Jennifer L. Armentrout

We got more out of this as a family than we were able to give to the people. — Connie Sellecca

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

A generation back, his family were called Writh, but they thought an elegant extension would give them consequence;"
Cromwell of Wriothesley — Hilary Mantel

...because unlike some, I wasn't in line when they were handling out perfect genes. — Melissa Hill

My family was totally non-religious. There was no question we were Jewish, but we were not observant. — Elayne Boosler

I got an apartment for my family so they can move out of this one-room that they were renting out from a family. — Michelle Phan

I realized that in some unspoken, still tentative way, she and I were already becoming a family. — Barack Obama

In my family nudity just doesn't exist; I'm pretty sure my parents were both born fully clothed and still shower that way. — Huston Piner

Company, and were by far the richest family in the state. Yet Brody never let it get — Chanda Hahn

We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot. — Elizabeth Edwards

We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father. — Maggie Stiefvater

The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps. — Maggie Stiefvater

With my family background - my parents were both activists - writing about culture and politics came naturally. — Alexander Chee

My dad and all my family were into baseball. His brothers, my mom's brothers, my mom's father. Baseball was just always a part of our family. — Mark Teixeira

Once upon a time there was a huge family of children; and they were terribly, terribly naughty. — Christianna Brand

If I were to retire, I would keep my family's interest in the company the same and say, Don't sell. — Sheldon Adelson