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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
Lao Tzu

I have had this niggling back for a while now which has made it hard for me to play consistently, I have a young family.
Tim Henman

No boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues [because a ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer].
Joe DiMaggio

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
Gracie Allen

An awful lot of men like babies too and people generally respond warmly to family pictures.
Malcolm Bruce

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
Igor Stravinsky

We should try to achieve things for ourselves and not rely on former or past family glories with which we have no connection but the arbitrary nature of our birth.
Shirley Franklin

I feel the time is right, I want to spend more time with my young family and concentrate fully on my career [on retiring from international football at age 30]
Robbie Savage

We have employment assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues
Hannah More

If each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.
George Cadbury

I was not able to have children up until March; now it's in God's hands. I would love to have a family
Naomi Campbell

I grew up sort of like a princess. I know that sounds awful, but I was the baby of the family. I had older brothers, so the little girl always gets everything she wants. As I've gotten older, I've realized that if you want something bad enough, you can have it. I've never gone after something I didn't get. Not yet.
Rachel Bilson

I just long for the day when I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lamp-posts.
Ken Livingstone

A series of rumours about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.
Ted Lindsay

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.
Antonin Scalia

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
Reinhold Niebuhr

My whole family are wedded to the fortunes of Crystal Palace - I go when I'm in town.
Bill Nighy

Britney's really supportive of what I'm doing. It's going to be tough because I'm not going to see my family as much as I want to, but I mean, those are the sacrifices you make as an artist.
Kevin Federline

I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor.
Susan Hayward

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
Susan Sontag

I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
Pamela Stephenson

And there went from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men appointed with weapons of war.
Bible

I've always had strays or rescue dogs growing up with my family.
Will Estes

It can be hard to do, but nonetheless you should always try and take your family into your arms and appreciate them.
Adam Garcia

My family are really happy here at Liverpool and I am prepared to have my daughter with a Scouse accent, even though it is sometimes a problem for me!
Rafael Benitez

Pride, in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit
Johann Georg Von Zimmermann

Youth football is very important to the Buccaneers and our family, as it plays such an integral role in developing not only young athletes but young leaders as well
Malcolm Glazer

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard Shaw

The manager has always shown a lot of faith in me, and the fact that I gave up my home and family in Barcelona to come to Liverpool shows how much faith I have in Rafael Benitez.
Luis Garcia

My family is the most important thing in the world to me, too, before anything else.
Dennis Quaid

I have never said I am against the monarchy. I think they are a harmless, rather odd little family.
George W Bush

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
Andre Maurois

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

To win the X Factor would mean the world to me and my family. I'd buy mum and dad a house and then I think I would buy myself a car and have a little shopping trip.
Leona Lewis

The pink sheep of the family [on himself]
Alexander McQueen

I love to snuggle up on the sofa wrapped in my duvet watching old black and white films, and catching up with friends and family on the phone.
Martine McCutcheon

Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let's get on with it.
Germaine Greer

I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.
Trey Parker

A disease in the family that is never mentioned (Of the troubles in Northern Ireland)
William Trevor

In our family, we don't have rifts. We have a jolly good row and then it's all over. And I've only twice ever had a row with my sister
Princess Margaret

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
Lyndon Johnson

We wish him and his family well, and we wish him every success in whatever he does in the future. [on Tony Blair]
David Cameron

It's something that my family can finally be proud of. [on his Hollywood career]
Hugh Jackman

I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family.
Steven Adler

He will never be dull to strangers who joins in sport with his own family.
Titus Maccius Plautus

Ours is like Jewish humour with a sun tan - warm, family-based. We share a lot of neuroses such as food, guilt, overachieving children and controlling mothers. [on Asian humour]
Meera Syal

I'm an emotional person. I really put my heart and soul into it. I felt I'd let Anton and my family down.
Jan Ravens

'Who knows? Maybe I am insane, too, it runs in my family, but I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I though, 'F*ck that. I want to be a superhuman.'
David Bowie

The family that prays together stays together
Al Scalpone

We're lucky to have the family connection. We're close and close musically as well
Caroline Corr



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