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" I have a lot of nieces and nephews. I was always around kids. I was like the family babysitter because I was the only one that wasn't married. "

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" DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress. "

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" I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life. "

" One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community. "

" Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers of all my close friends and family. Today, I'm not sure if I know more than four phone numbers by heart. And that's probably more than most. "

Friends And Family

" I like to live life and not work every second of the day, and spend time with my family and stuff like that. Balance is very important for me. "

" I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family. "

" People end up on the street for many different reasons - leaving care or hospital, problems with debt, unemployment, mental health, family breakup - and so the help they need is varied, too. "

" I love to travel, I love to go out with my friends, but what I love most is being home with my family. "

" I remember, as a child, lying in my bed at night praying that I would wake up the next day and be a girl, to be my authentic self, and to just have my family be proud of me. I remember looking into the mirror struggling to say just two words, 'I'm transgender.' "

" When people say, 'How did you start in comedy,' I say my family was kidnapped by ninjas when I was very young, and to get them released I had to do a killer five-minute set. And even after I did that, you know, I started doing comedy under tough circumstances, I still kept at it because I enjoyed it. "

Hannibal Buress

" Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle. "

" I'm less shy now than I was as a kid. After Flight 1549, my family and I had to become public figures and more complete versions of ourselves. I had to teach myself to become an effective public speaker. "

Chesley Sullenberger

" I am very proud of my mom and consider her the most courageous woman I know. With perseverance, sacrifice and hard work, she raised a family of Olympic athletes and gave us the tools and the spirit to succeed. That is something that my brothers and I will always be thankful for. "

" Don't focus on the negativity. Focus on the positivity and the people that want you to do well; then, do it for them and for yourself. Sometimes I do things for myself. Sometimes I do things for my family. Sometimes I do things for my friends. "

" Breast cancer, whether I like it or not, is part of my family's story. That's why I am so passionate about raising awareness, because I have seen firsthand how it can impact others. "

DeAngelo Williams

" I spend a lot of my spare time with my family. My sisters, parents, and in-laws all live nearby. "

" Family life is the backbone of mankind, and that life is dependent upon mutual giving, sharing, and receiving from each other. It entails the proper use of each other's successes and failures for mutual up-building. "

Mother Angelica

" Going home and spending time with your family and your real friends keeps you grounded. "

Jennifer Ellison

" In personal life, the warm glow of nostalgia amplifies good memories and minimizes bad ones about experiences and relationships, encouraging us to revisit and renew our ties with friends and family. It always involves a little harmless self-deception, like forgetting the pain of childbirth. "

Stephanie Coontz

" Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing. "

" Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place. "

" The richest inheritance any child can have is a stable, loving, disciplined family life. "

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

" The family is the nucleus of civilization. "

" Who would have thought that a tap-dancing penguin would outpoint James Bond at the box office? And deserve to? Not that there's anything wrong with 'Casino Royale.' But 'Happy Feet' - written and directed by George Miller - is a complete charmer, even if, in the way of most family fare, it can't resist straying into the Inspirational. "

Robert Gottlieb

" Of course, my mom is my biggest and loudest cheerleader, and my family and friends are happy for me, but I'm still just Angie, not Angie-the-author-with-this-hyped-up-book. I appreciate that. "

" I think that style, taste, and choices in general are forged by everything that surrounds you - everything you see, taste, touch, smell and hear. So of course, my family has influenced me as a person and in my own style, but so have all the experiences that I went through as an individual. "

Margherita Missoni

" I come from a blue-collar family. My father worked at the American Can Company as a mechanic. He broke his back and was disabled, and the first memory I have of him is in the hospital. My mother was a working mother - she had two jobs. Everybody in the house had to help out. "

" My father was strict and always taught me, no matter who it is, everybody is an uncle. To me, everybody was someone I respect like family. I grew up with that. "