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Family Quotes - Page 50

Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.

Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.12, A&C Black

I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.

"Ed Westwick: 'I can be a real bitch - people know when to stay away'". Interview with Mirror.co.uk, www.mirror.co.uk. May 3, 2009.

Every member of my family was displaced by Katrina.

"Brazile: Bush came through on Katrina". www.cnn.com. April 25, 2013.

I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.

"David Hockney: a life in art". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2012.

He who works for his own interests will arouse much animosity

Confucius (2012). “The Analects”, p.18, Courier Corporation

Mother's love grows by giving.

Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1838). “The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb”, p.196

Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.

David Paul, Charles Baudelaire (1996). “Poison and vision: poems and prose of Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Rimbaud”, Univ of Salzberg Pr

From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen.

Song: Father and Son, Album: Saturnight, 1970