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“If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'”

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Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.”

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Author:Akhmad Kadyrov

“My mother imparted her daily truths so she could help my older brothers and me rise above our circumstances. We lived in San Francisco's Chinatown. Like most of the other Chinese children who played in the back alleys of restaurants and curio shops, I didn't think we were poor. My bowl was always full, three five-course meals every day, beginning with a soup full of mysterious things I didn't want to know the names of.”

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“Separate from the other unnamed billions who walk the earth, each of these little groups of three or five or twelve, brought together by the shuffle of chance, then welded by blood, sees in itself the whole of earth, or all that matters of it. What happens to one of the three or five or twelve will happen to them all. Whatever grief or triumph may touch any one will touch every one, as they are carried forward into the unknowable under the brilliant, terrifying sun which nourishes all.”

May Littles Matter Whole Happens Earth Together Three Chance Walks Grief Family Sun Five Groups Blood Brilliant Billions Triumph Twelve Shuffle Groups Of Three

Book:Evergreen

Source: Evergreen

“Seventy-five years ago I was born in Tampico, Illinois, in a little flat above the bank building. We didn't have any other contact with the bank than that.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“Did I ever tell my constituents that if they liked their plan they could keep it? I would have if I'd ever met anybody who liked his or her plan. But that was not my experience.”

“I'm a little tired. I haven't been out for more than five or six weeks in the States, and that's really a lot for me. You know, to me, music is important, it's the way I make my living and I like it and I enjoy playing. But it's not the most important thing in my life - that's my family.”

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Author:Joe Pass

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

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Author:Gracie Allen

“Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.”

Source: Suzanne's diary for Nicholas: a novel

“The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.”

Children Purpose Parent Enjoy Family Five Four Childhood Importance Prime

Author:Jim Trelease

“I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.”

Family Vision Five Thirty Forty

Author:Nastassja Kinski

“The ideal age for a boy to own a dog is between forty-five and fifty.”

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Book:Chips Off the Old Benchley

Source: Chips Off the Old Benchley

“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”

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

Bigs Family Five Feet Changed Mountain Tall Mama

Author:Randy Travis