Best my-family & humans Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I have three stepfamilies as well as my family of origin. I've had to adjust to them and also go back and forth among them. I became an observer of human nature because when you are in those situations you have to be.”

Humans Wells Three Situation Human Nature My Family Observers Back And Forth

Author:Lily King

“For more than two generations, my family had never achieved their ambitions. Their talents were unappreciated and unused. They deserved better. They hadn't done anything wrong; they just had some bad breaks. Why was I succeeding? Why was I living my dreams? I wasn't more deserving than they were. I wasn't smarter or a better person. What was the difference between us that allowed me to attain so much in a short time? America. America was the difference. I had been born a citizen of the greatest nation in all of human history.”

Source: An American Son: A Memoir

“What gives these corporations like CONOCO, SHELL, EXXON, DIASHAWA, ITT, RIO TINTO ZINC, and the WORLD BANK a right which supercedes or is superior to my human right to live on my land, or that of my family, my community, my nation, our nations, and to us as women?”

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Author:Winona LaDuke

“In a mad moment, my family and I purchased a home in Maine because it's the place in the world that my wife loves better than any other place or any other human, and so I have committed my life and what had once been my economic security that has now returned to insecurity, to a patch of painful, rocky land on the shores of horrible, cold waters to a place where people go in the summer to experience autumn because leaves start falling on August 1.”

“My first priority is my family. I am human. But my whole family knows what my priority is. Family is always first. But my work is under nothing else, except God.”

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Author:Lil Wayne

“It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.”

Humans Wells Has Beens My Family Work Out Observation

Book:The lives and times of Archy and Mehitabel

Source: The lives and times of Archy and Mehitabel

“My friends and my family - the people who I love and who love me back. Whenever I get down, when I want to crawl under a rock, I just look around at them and I see how rich my life is. You have to remember what’s most important in life. I am loved by so many people and have a wonderful job. I know I’m incredibly blessed. I am a completely lucky human being.”

People Knows Want Humans Looks Important Jobs Remember Life Is Human Beings Rich Wonderful Rocks Lucky My Friends My Family Blessed

Author:Troian Bellisario

“My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.”

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Author:Toni Cade Bambara

“I learned that money's not happiness. The more famous I am and the more money I make, the closer I stay to my family and friends that I've known since junior high school. True happiness to me is the connection with fellow human beings I've known for a long time.”

Humans Long School Happiness Human Beings Known Long Time High School My Family Connections Fellows More Money Family And Friends Juniors True Happiness Junior High High School Junior

Author:Dat Phan

“There's no doubt having an autistic child represents tremendous challenges for both the children and their parents, but in my experience, it has brought me closer to my family and has given me an appreciation for how the human brain develops and the uniqueness of each child it afflicts.”

Humans Children Given Parent Challenges Brain Doubt My Family Appreciation No Doubt Uniqueness Human Brain Autistic Autistic Children

Author:Manny Alvarez

“I've lived through deaths in my family and I've lived through separations in my family so those are the big ones. Those are the ones that press the biggest buttons in human beings' lives.”

Humans Bigs Human Beings My Family Presses Separation Buttons

Author:Charlotte Rampling

“Etgar means "challenge." And my family name is Keret, which means "urban." So my name is "urban challenge." My joke is, it's a good description of a birth but a strange name for a human being.”

Humans Mean Names Challenges Human Beings Strange Birth Jokes My Family Description Urban Family Name

Author:Etgar Keret

“All I'd ever heard my entire life in my family was, "Nobody wanted you, and we took you in." When you get that into your head at a tender age, you really feel like you are an unlovable human being, and then you behave like one. That's exactly what I had done. It took me many years to deal with my own violence and find my own niche.”

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Author:Sam Hamill

“I'm interested in human behavior, and what happened in my family life is definitely not a unique story. There are aspects of that I'm sure you can see through the work. But I'm just looking for something that touches me.”

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Author:Charlize Theron

“I'm thankful for the big stuff of course-my family, health, human kindness. But I'm also thankful that I don't have to work for Hollywood anymore.”

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Author:Wayne White

“From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.”

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Author:Patti Smith

“I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.”

Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence

“There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.”

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Book:Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait

Source: Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait

“Sometimes my need to love hurts-- myself, my family, my cause. Is there a cure? Of course. But I refuse. Refuse to stop loving, to stop caring. To avoid those tears, that pain...To err on the side of passion is human and right and the only way I'll live.”

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Book:Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman

Source: Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman

“Cal says that humans are made from the nuclear ash of dead stars. He says that when I die, I'll return to dust, glitter,rain. If thats true, I want to be buried right here under this tree. Its roots will reach into the soft mess of my body and suck me dry. I'll be re-formed as apple blossom. I'll drift down in the spring like confetti and cling to my family's shoes. They'll carry me in their pockets to help them sleep. What dreams will they have then?”

Ifs Want Humans Made Helping Dream Body Dies Stars Sleep Tree Return Spring Rain Roots My Family Shoes Nuclear Dust Mess Apples Dry Pockets Buried Ashes Glitter Confetti

Author:Jenny Downham

“These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw, poster children for the human condition.”

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Author:Anne Lamott

“What am I always going to do? I'm going to go home and freak out.I'm going to sit with my family and try not to talk about myself and what's wrong. Im going to try and eat. Then I'm going to try and sleep. I dread it. I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?”

Knows Trying Humans Wells I Can Home Term Sleep My Family Freak Dread Can't Sleep I Can't Sleep

Author:Ned Vizzini

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