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Shortly after I was born he emigrated to Durban, where members of my mother's family had settled at the turn of the century, and the rest of the family followed soon thereafter.

Aaron Klug

Physicist · British · b. 1926

The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family farm in Kentucky has centered around one crop: tobacco.

Jim Bunning

Politician · American · b. 1931

If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.

Paul D. Boyer

Scientist · American · b. 1918

My family background was deeply Christian.

Abbe Pierre

Clergyman · French · 1912 – 2007

Since its enactment in the weeks following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tools in the Patriot Act have been used by law enforcement to stop more than 400 terrorist threats to our families and communities.

Jim Gerlach

Politician · American · b. 1955

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

William Gilbert

Composer · British · 1836 – 1911

Even the simplest wicker basket can become priceless when it is loved and cared for through the generations of a family.

Sister Parish

Designer · American

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

d. 1829

While the wealthiest families completely benefit from the tax cuts targeted towards the upper brackets, middle-income families were hit with the unwelcome surprise of higher taxes on tax day.

Tim Bishop

Politician · American · b. 1950

The man who bears my name, and who claims to be me, was born on July 15, 1865, the sixth in a family of seven. He was an ugly child, and remained ugly till his eighteenth year, when his looks gradually improved.

Laurence Housman

Playwright · English · 1865 – 1959

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.

Patrick Henry

Revolutionary · American · 1736 – 1799

The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.

Charles Eastman

Author · Sioux · 1858 – 1939

I have no intention of going back to France, except for yearly visits to meet my family.

Francois Gautier

Writer · French

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.

Henry Ellis

Psychologist · British · b. 1859

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

Valerie Solanas

Writer · American · 1936 – 1988

There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.

Sam Mendes

Director · British · b. 1965

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

Stella Benson

Writer · English

In fact, the Iraqi foreign minister admitted in March 2003 that Iraqi funds were sent to families of Palestinian suicide bombers who attacked and killed innocent Israeli citizens, and also 12 Americans in Israel in 2003.

Jim Gerlach

Politician · American · b. 1955

Thousands of Ohio families are going deeper and deeper in debt just trying to pay their heating bills, fill prescriptions, and buy groceries. The current minimum wage is simply not enough.

Sherrod Brown

Politician · American · b. 1952

Whatever he does should be seen as working at the Presidency and if he goes to Colorado for Christmas, it should be for a minimum amount of time, the family tradition and family get-together aspect emphasized, and it be seen as a working vacation.

Robert Teeter

Politician · American

Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.

Cotton Mather

Theologian · American · 1663 – 1728

Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.

Sister Parish

Designer · American

I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope.

Atom Egoyan

Director · Canadian · b. 1960

I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.

Asa Gray

Scientist · American · 1810 – 1888

I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue to farm the land that they have protected and lived on, often for generations.

Tom Allen

Politician · American · b. 1945

And the trajectory that our debt is taking now beyond $14 trillion is going to have an impact on our currency. It goes south, and our currency's going to have an impact on our standard of living and affect every family in this country, and over time, our international competitiveness.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

Politician · American · b. 1960

We are stronger because we recognize that government isn't the sole answer to the most important questions, and we welcome community and faith based organizations as partners to serve the needs of Florida families.

Jeb Bush

Politician · American · b. 1953

What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university.

Mark Shields

Journalist · American · b. 1937

It is important that Congress works to promote home ownership in Indian Country. These federal housing funds and programs will help young Native American families to stay on tribal lands in order to live, work and raise a family.

Rick Renzi

Politician · American · b. 1958

The buffalo is all gone, and an Indian can't catch enough jack rabbits to subsist himself and his family, and then, there aren't enough jack rabbits to catch. What are they to do?

George Crook

Soldier · American · 1828 – 1890

We all need to start making some changes to how our families eat. Now, everyone loves a good Sunday dinner. Me included. And there's nothing wrong with that. The problem is when we eat Sunday dinner Monday through Saturday.

Michelle Obama

First Lady · American · b. 1964

I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.

Abbe Pierre

Clergyman · French · 1912 – 2007

Hour after hour, they shouted at me, accused me, insulted me and members of my family.

Sam Sheppard

Scientist · American · 1923 – 1970

Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area?

Asa Gray

Scientist · American · 1810 – 1888

The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

Author · French · 1846 – 1870

One out of every 100 families in Vermont was a part owner of Ben and Jerry's.

Jerry Greenfield

Businessman · American · b. 1951

The President also talked at length about how well the American economy is doing. Apparently, he got his information on this topic from his millionaire supporters. For the average working family, these are trying economic times.

Jose Serrano

Politician · American · b. 1943

The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.

Dodie Smith

Dramatist · English · 1896 – 1990

I didn't have a very religious family.

Barbara Walters

Journalist · American · b. 1931

And I think one of the tasks that I always feel is how to get that vision out of them. Not exactly what they want, but what they want to accomplish for themselves or their community or their family.

Lawrence Halprin

Architect · American · b. 1916

We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let's-take-care-of-one-another. That's the creative challenge.

Jerry Brown

Politician · American · b. 1938

I am a great admirer of Sen. Frist, who is a nationally known heart surgeon and well known in Nashville as a great family man who has dedicated his life to helping others and, in that regard, he has followed in his father's footsteps.

John Jay Hooker

Businessman · American

You take care of you and your family first. Then you go to your neighborhood, and then you spread it on out within the community.

Al Smith

Politician · American · 1873 – 1944

I've heard about brothers making films, but I've never heard about whole families making films like this. We didn't intend to do it; it wasn't something that we planned - it just gradually happened.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Director · Iranian · b. 1957

I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

Dan Quayle

Vice President · American · b. 1947

Providing patients and consumers with solid information on the cost and quality of their healthcare options can literally make the difference between life or death; and play a decisive role in whether a family or employer can afford healthcare.

Timothy Murphy

Soldier · American

As winter weather settles in around the country, millions of American families are facing skyrocketing home heating prices with even greater impact if cold temperatures persist into the spring.

Russ Carnahan

Politician · American · b. 1958

Let me be clear - I want all Louisiana citizens to have choice - including the elderly and persons with disabilities - and their families - who rely on the state for their care.

Kathleen Blanco

Politician · American · b. 1942

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