7,080 Quotes About Family

  • Author Micah Perks
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    When I ask my mother if I can tape-record her for a memoir, she says, If I'm going to be betrayed it might as well be by my own daughter.

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  • Author Paul Theroux
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    I often had the feeling that it was the old immemorial Confucian family that had kept China orderly. Mao had attacked the family-the Cultural Revolution was intentionally an assault on the family system, when children were told to rat on their bourgeois parents. But that had faltered and failed. The family had endured

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  • Author Elizabeth Acevedo
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    ...and then there's a tapon my shoulderand I turn to see Papi,holding his hand out to me,reaching for my arm,asking me to dance."I should have taught youa long time ago,Dancing is a good way to tell someone you love them.

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