“Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.”
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“Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.”
“If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.”
“It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.”
“The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.”
“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.”
“I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me.”
“My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.”
“The last thing family and friends want is for you to spend money on them that you don't have or that you can't really spare.”
“My friends ask me why I still live with my family, but I feel comfortable there. We've all been through so much together.”
“I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then, all of a sudden, my brother started snow boarding. Older brother thing, I had to do what he was doing. So I started snow boarding.”
“I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.”
“My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.”
“Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.”
“Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.”
“The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.”
“I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.”
“I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.”
“My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.”
“If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA.”
“If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA. I think it's fascinating.”
“The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.”
“My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'”
“You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.”