Top 86 Quotes About A Large Family

#1. What makes a good deli is a place that, one, is generally family-owned or owned by individuals that care. Delis that are owned by large corporations tend not to have that same soul. And two, delis that make as much of their food from scratch as possible.

David Sax

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#2. The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.

Wendell Pierce

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#3. A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship.

Charles Buxton

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#4. I was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it's funny, because most of my best friends come from very large families. So it always felt as if I had lots of siblings, though in the end I had to leave them and go home. I kind of got the best of both worlds as a kid.

Sophia Bush

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#5. I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

Oliver Goldsmith

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#6. I wasn't a cliquey person, and I think that's because I came from a large family. I got along with everybody, and I usually got along with the people that people didn't like.

Amy Sedaris

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#7. I was the youngest of four kids, and Dad, who had a garden centre before he retired, came from a large Lancashire family. Every one of my uncles had their own business, including a post office, two fish and chip shops and a painting and decorating business.

Rick Astley

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#8. The relatives didn't feel slighted - they had a limited interest in people like Roy who had just married into the family, and not even contributed any children to it, and who were not like themselves. They were large, expansive, talkative. He was short, compact, quiet.

Alice Munro

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#9. I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.

Lisa See

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#10. The course of George St. Leger Grenfell's life was a continuing act of violence against the sanctities of Victorian life, and especially against its inmost essence, the family. And indeed, the large Grenfell family was an overpowering aggregation, even by the ample Victorian standard.

Stephen Z. Starr

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#11. And when I look back I recognize now that I indeed do come from a large family of artists. Whether they necessarily realize it or not.

E.J. Bonilla

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#12. If you're the oldest in a large family, you tend to do everything yourself, particularly if you are the first American. You begin a habit or pattern that makes it easy to reject other help.

Pete Hamill

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#13. We are children of a large family, and must learn, as such children do, not to expect that our little hurts will be made much of - to be content with little nurture and caressing, and help each other the more.

George Eliot

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#14. A company commander,' said Dicky Umfraville, when we met later that year, 'needs the qualifications of a ringmaster in a first-class circus, and a nanny in a large family.

Anthony Powell

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#15. A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate.

Vincent Frank

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#16. I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#17. As I wrote 'The Christmas Lamp' I realized that tradition is priceless, whether you have a small family, a large family, or no family.
Tradition doesn't have to be logical; it only has to emphasize the light of Christ and his everlasting love.

Lori Copeland

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#18. I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's going to get edited. I think that comes from being in a large family, so you have to get your story in really quick or someone cuts you off.

Amy Sedaris

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#19. Never underestimate the significance of the little things done out of a large heart of love.

Elizabeth George

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#20. I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Lewis Grizzard

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#21. The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me.

Nevil Shute

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#22. A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money.

Anne Northup

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#23. I had worn that gold ring for nearly thirty years; token of vows taken, forsaken, renewed, and at last absolved. A token of marriage, of family; of a large part of my life. And the last trace of Frank - whom, in spite of everything, I had loved. Jamie

Diana Gabaldon

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#24. Perhaps you've heard the one about the difference between a bass player and a large pepperoni pizza? The pizza can feed a family of four. I

Spider Robinson

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#25. I've always been a deep sleeper; because I come from such a large family - there are 10 kids - I could sleep through anything.

Kurt Vile

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#26. I come from a large family so you can count on the fact that I'm going to have more kids.

Benjamin Bratt

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#27. The world is large," said Okonkwo. "I have even heard that in some tribes a man's children belong to his wife and her family."
"That cannot be," said Machi. "You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.

Chinua Achebe

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#28. The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it. Margaret Sanger

Margaret Sanger

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#29. I had a really hard time growing up; we were a large family, and we didn't have much money at home.

Luis Suarez

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#30. [On growing up in a large family with little money:] ... to take a bath ... we just had a pan of water and we'd wash down as far as possible, and we'd wash up as far as possible. Then, when somebody'd clear the room, we'd wash possible.

Dolly Parton

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#31. I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values.

Dikembe Mutombo

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#32. The most important Christian Education institution is not the pulpit or the school, important as those institutions are; but it is the Christian family. And that institution has to a very large extent ceased to do its work.

John Gresham Machen

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#33. I've always dreamed of having a large family.

Lance Bass

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#34. Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the lifes work of a real person or family, people who built their lives around a promise and watched it break.

Barbara Kingsolver

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#35. I grew up, as reported, in a large family of Catholics without even a decent ration of tentativeness among the lot of us about our religious faith.

William F. Buckley Jr.

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#36. Living in a small town ... is like living in a large family of rather uncongenial relations. Sometimes it's fun, and sometimes it's perfectly awful, but it's always good for you. People in large towns are like only-children.

Joyce Dennys

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#37. But being is making; not only large things, a family, a book, a business; but the shape we give this afternoon, a conversation between friends, a meal.

Frank Bidart

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#38. A family can be the bane of one's existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one's existence. I don't know whether my family is bane or meaning, but they have surely gone away and left a large hole in my heart.

Keri Hulme

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#39. I have a significant other and a large, immediate family. No children, thank goodness. And I have a 13-year-old kitty.

Andrea Parker

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#40. Years of concentration solely on work and individual success meant that in his retirement [Lyndon Johnson] could find no solace in family, in recreation, in sports or in hobbies. It was almost as if the hole in his heart was so large that even the love of a family, without work, could not fill it.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

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#41. She was mantelpieced by a large bosom [...] you could have stood things on it, a vase of flowers and a bust of Beethoven, and a family photograph or two, maybe.

John Harding

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#42. The world was large, so large. Bigger than it had been before. Family, too, a bigger word. That felt like a good thing. An essential thing. There was power in numbers.

Deb Caletti

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#43. I grew up as the only child, and we did not have a large family. So for me and my mother, our friends tend to become our family.

Karan Johar

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#44. I speak about family and adoption because it 100% changed my life and who I am. It definitely played a very large role into just learning how to be grateful for what you have and being fulfilled in a way that a lot of adopted kids don't feel.

Jenna Ushkowitz

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#45. I personally have my own idea of an efficient house. It would be totally concrete with a big drain in the middle, a large fiberglass tree for my kids to swing from and a hose hanging in the corner.

Colleen Down

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#46. That was always a dream of mine, to have a large family, a huge family.

Nadya Suleman

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#47. A large family makes you accept sharing your parents.

Martha Reeves

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#48. I was raised in a large family. The first reason for my travel was to get away from my family. I knew that I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't want people to ask me questions about it.

Paul Theroux

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#49. She used that word at some point referring to her family's love, infinite, and I thought about how infinite is not a large number. It is something else entirely. It is boundlessness.

John Green

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#50. The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

Nancy Mitford

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#51. She ate--so, so good--cocooned in the harmonic dissonance of a large family, where every sound was distinct yet blended.

Rachel Hauck

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#52. The idea of having a large family, I definitely had a romantic notion of it.

Jim Gaffigan

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#53. Hey, look - Harry's got a Weasley sweater, too!"
Fred and George were wearing blue sweaters, one with a large yellow F on it, the other a G.
"Harry's is better than ours, though," said Fred, holding up Harry's sweater. "She obviously makes more of an effort if you're not family.

J.K. Rowling

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#54. They had always dreamed of a large family but have now realized that they would be equally blessed to have even one child.

Jane Green

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#55. There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.

Herbert V. Prochnow

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#56. A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals
a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family.

Carroll Quigley

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#57. I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children.

Anne Hathaway

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#58. The family is a vast project, so enormous and important, both for us personally and for the world at large, that it's worth putting up with all the incomprehensible cares of life, all that superfluous pain, for its sake.

Sandor Marai

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#59. But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.

George Cadbury

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#60. The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them.

Taylor Dane

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#61. The Pashtun tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian Every large house is a real feudal fortress ... Eve ry family cultivates its vendetta; every clan, its feud ... Nothing is ever forgotten and very few debts are left unpaid.

Winston Churchill

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#62. I was one of those fortunate individuals who grew up in a large, passionate, demonstrative Italian family where we were taught to love as naturally as we breathed and ate giant bowls of pasta!

Leo Buscaglia

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#63. I come from a family of Russian immigrant Jews who were all big storytellers, who would get together, and one would try to top the others' stories, and stories would get bigger and bigger. And the lying aspect, the exaggeration, would get large.

Philip Schultz

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#64. We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed.

Henry David Thoreau

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#65. The most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it.

Margaret Sanger

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#66. I have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful.

Sarah Jessica Parker

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#67. He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Benjamin Franklin

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#68. Children's lives are not shaped solely by their families or immediate surroundings at large. That is why we must avoid the false dichotomy that says only government or only family is responsible ... Personal values and national policies must both play a role.

Hillary Clinton

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#69. My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education.

Ronnie James Dio

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#70. The U.K. is one of the places that has always been an advocate of my music and I spend a lot of time touring here. I've got family and friends over here, but more than that, there's a large Jamaican community and the Jamaican culture is very widespread in the U.K. which I love.

Damian Marley

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#71. But when you come from a large, wonderful family, there's always a way to achieve your goals.

Wilma Rudolph

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#72. We can have a large impact on the prevention and amelioration of abuse, drug problems, violence, mental health problems, and dysfunction in families.

Steven C. Hayes

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#73. I am simply the most conspicuous part of a large, thoroughly dedicated and professional staff that extends from just behind these cameras, across this country and around the world, in too many instances, in places of grave danger and personal hardship. They're family to me.

Tom Brokaw

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#74. Am I alone in this mother-food connection or does being with your mom trigger the sudden and voracious need for large amounts of mac & cheese, rice pudding, and the scraps along the side of a bowl of cookie dough?

April Paine

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#75. Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.

Henry David Thoreau

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#76. A large portion of the weekend effects is explained by differences in the amount of time spent with friends or family between weekends and weekdays.

Daniel Kahneman

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#77. Recognize that you are a spiritual being who is part of a large cosmic family of spiritual beings. You have the power, strength, and talent to fulfill your own individual earthly destiny.

James Van Praagh

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#78. Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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#79. I was motivated to join in large part because my family needed the money. I would like to say how patriotic we were, but really what motivated me was the excitement my mother would get in receiving a check for my older brother.

Charles Rangel

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#80. Family is in essence a small nation, and the nation a large family. In treating his own family with dignity, a ruler learns to govern his nation with dignity

Gene Luen Yang

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#81. Coming from a large family makes you feel protected - you have friends and allies.

Paul McGann

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#82. You men never change. Is that all you can see? Proud grandfathers of a large ... Mrs. Werner smacked her husband upside the head and took the pictures away.

Melisa M. Hamling

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#83. Do you have a large family? You seem like someone who suffered through a great deal of sisters."
"I've suffered through a great many people, but none of them sisters. I'm an only child."
That explains a few things, Ceony thought.

Charlie N. Holmberg

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#84. I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.

Laura Innes

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#85. Financial security is crucial for your family, and I have a large family. Money does matter when you don't have it. When you need it, you realise the value of it. In that sense, money will always have value.

Katrina Kaif

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#86. When we lived in a society where we had large families that lived together, especially in agricultural societies like my grandfather and father grew up in, the result is you always had family around to take care of you.

Atul Gawande

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