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From the time they hit middle school, they start moving away from home. They are not doing anything wrong; it's just the way they are made. They are becoming independent, and they begin redefining themselves through the eyes other people who are not in their immediate family. The older they get, the more important it is to have other voices in their lies saying the same things but in a different way. ~ Reggie Joiner
Immediate Family quotes by Reggie Joiner
My sister is going to have a simple wedding. Just immediate family. And whoever the hell would want to marry her. ~ Anthony Jeselnik
Immediate Family quotes by Anthony Jeselnik
My identity has always been confused. Born in Edinburgh of a Scottish/Russian/Jewish mother and an English/Irish/Catholic father, there is no form of guilt to which I was not subjected in my childhood. Members of my immediate family live all over the world - a diaspora of cousins, aunts, uncles and more in a dizzying mix. ~ Sara Sheridan
Immediate Family quotes by Sara Sheridan
I come from a huge family and out of all 34 of my immediate family members, my heavier influences were women. Between my grandmothers, aunts, older female cousins, and of course my mother, I was pretty much predominantly raised by women, as they make up most of my family anyway. ~ Aeriel Miranda
Immediate Family quotes by Aeriel Miranda
There is a difficult discussion that rarely happens among American funeral directors: viewing the embalmed body is often an unpleasant experience for the family. THere are exceptions to this rule, but the immediate family is given almost no meaningful time with the body. Before the family has time to be with their dead person and process the loss, coworkers and distant cousins arrive, and everyone is forced into a public performance of grief and humility.

I wondered what it would be like if there were places like Lastel in every major city. Spaces outside the stiff, ceremonial norm, where the family can just be with the body, free from the performance required at a formal viewing. Spaces that are safe, comfortable, like home. ~ Caitlin Doughty
Immediate Family quotes by Caitlin Doughty
We all have our own purpose in life and I feel very strongly that I have a bigger purpose than giving to just my immediate family and friends. ~ Natalia Vodianova
Immediate Family quotes by Natalia Vodianova
With my busy schedule, my friends consist of my immediate family and the people I work with! ~ Heather Hemmens
Immediate Family quotes by Heather Hemmens
I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well. ~ Wayne Dyer
Immediate Family quotes by Wayne Dyer
Ann Whitby had a secret and this was a secret no one outside the immediate family could ever know. ~ Anthony Jay Cleveland
Immediate Family quotes by Anthony Jay Cleveland
Perhaps the most important Stoic legacy to the history of moral thought was the concept of universal humanity. In his famous Elements of Ethics, the second-century Stoic philosopher Hierocles imagines every individual as standing at the centre of a series of concentric circles. The first circle is the individual, next comes the immediate family, followed by the extended family, the local community, the country, and finally the entire human race. To be virtuous, Hierocles suggested, is to draw these circles together, constantly to transfer people from the outer circles to the inner circles, to treat strangers as cousins and cousins as brothers and sisters, making all human beings part of our concern. The Stoics called this process of drawing the circles together oikeiosis, a word that is almost untranslatable but means something like the process by which everything is made into your home. ~ Kenan Malik
Immediate Family quotes by Kenan Malik
For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity. ~ Sidney Altman
Immediate Family quotes by Sidney Altman
We ought to care for those closest to us in terms of relatedness. After our immediate family, we ought to pursue our calling diligently as employees and provide just incentives (perhaps through profit-sharing) and reasonable care for our workers as employers. We should seek the wisdom of teachers and elders in society and look to them for leadership, while rejecting their folly when it is discerned. We must put our children and their education, both at home and in school, before our own entertainment, pleasure, and success. We ought not to tolerate insolence or haughtiness in them; nor ought we to punish them too severely, but should lead them as good teachers, by example and patient instruction. ~ Michael S. Horton
Immediate Family quotes by Michael S. Horton
Each survivor chooses how secrecy is going to fit into their healing. Some share with their immediate family, but not their childhood family and friends. ~ Jeanne McElvaney
Immediate Family quotes by Jeanne McElvaney
My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude ... ~ Albert Einstein
Immediate Family quotes by Albert Einstein
There's no real nationalism in this county. If you're poor in America, that's a criminal offense. You're not only a criminal for being poor, but you're also stupid and deficient. We don't have this national feeling of fraternity. We live in an individualist state where everyone hates everyone else, except your immediate family. We live in a mafia state. ~ Ian Svenonius
Immediate Family quotes by Ian Svenonius
Tallent notes that the days surrounding the death are marked not by keening or weeping but instead by a dignified, almost majestical, sense of quiet and contemplation. The deceased's immediate family continues to go about their daily rituals, but their silence, their lack of chatter in this busy, intimate community, is a ritual in itself, and the other villagers give them peace until the bereaved signal their intention to return to the life of the community. Sometimes this silent mourning takes only days; sometimes it takes months. But it is a remarkable demonstration of being absent in a place so intensely present, of being granted solitude while surrounded by many ~ Hanya Yanagihara
Immediate Family quotes by Hanya Yanagihara
The Jinmoti of Bozlen Two kill the hereditary ritual assassins of the new Yearking's immediate family by drowning them in the tears of the Continental Empathaur in its Sadness Season. ~ Iain M. Banks
Immediate Family quotes by Iain M. Banks
Every gay person must come out. As difficult as it is, you must tell your immediate family. You must tell your relatives. You must tell your friends if indeed they are your friends. You must tell the people you work with. You must tell the people in the stores you shop in. Once they realize that we are indeed their children, that we are indeed everywhere, every myth, every lie, every innuendo will be destroyed once and all. And once you do, you will feel so much better ~ Harvey Milk
Immediate Family quotes by Harvey Milk
Sometimes I live in fear. But when I have to take chances about people I love, relationships, my daughter and immediate family, those decisions are easy. ~ Paul Walker
Immediate Family quotes by Paul Walker
Shortly after her feeding tube is removed, Terri Schiavo receives the Catholic ceremony of last rites. Michael Schiavo stays in a room down the hall. He remains at his wife's side throughout the day, except when her immediate family comes to see Terri. ~ Mark Fuhrman
Immediate Family quotes by Mark Fuhrman
Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library. ~ Anthony Horowitz
Immediate Family quotes by Anthony Horowitz
I'm the least-educated person in my immediate family. My two other brothers have multiple advanced degrees, and I only have one. [ ... ] Actually, now that I've got a Nobel Prize, I feel equal. ~ Steven Chu
Immediate Family quotes by Steven Chu
Dr. Nicole Martin." Riker felt Myne's eyes boring into him. "She's alive?"
"Apparently." A shiver of hatred slithered up Riker's spine.

Until last week, when he'd seen a newspaper article glorifying the return of the Martin heir, he'd believed only one member of the godforsaken immediate family, Charles, was alive. "After the rest of the Martins were slaughtered in the rebellion, she was sent to Paris to live with her mother's relatives until she was old enough to work in Daedalus's French division as a vampire physiologist."

The mere mention of the infamous Seattle Slave Rebellion made Myne's voice degenerate into gravel. "And she's here now?" Riker nodded at the female in the window. "Right there and all grown up. And if you're done jacking off your dagger, we'll go have a chat with her."

"You think she'll cooperate?" Hell no. She was a Martin, after all, current CEO of the company that had revolutionized vampire slavery and used vampires like lab rodents to advance human medicine. Daedalus went through vampires like a slaughterhouse went through cattle, and Riker doubted the company held to any kind of "humane" standards. "For her sake," Riker said slowly, "I hope so. ~ Larissa Ione
Immediate Family quotes by Larissa Ione
No one who has not had the responsibility can really understand what it is like to be President, not even his closest aides or members of his immediate family. There is no end to the chain of responsibility that binds him, and he is never allowed to forget that he is President. ~ Harry S. Truman
Immediate Family quotes by Harry S. Truman
Until I was five, my immediate family lived near my grandfather's farm where my mother had grown up and, with the exception of a few modern conveniences, had not changed a lot over the years. ~ Kary Mullis
Immediate Family quotes by Kary Mullis
Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it. ~ Lynne Cheney
Immediate Family quotes by Lynne Cheney
I am truly a "lone traveler" and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart. ~ Albert Einstein
Immediate Family quotes by Albert Einstein
Any man that puts other family first before his own immediate family is sure heading for a future disaster because; family is everything". ~ Abdulazeez Henry Musa
Immediate Family quotes by Abdulazeez Henry Musa
I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn't know. ~ Ishmael Beah
Immediate Family quotes by Ishmael Beah
Ordinary people do not question the commonly accepted version of reality. They conform to the standard values of subduing enemies and cherishing friends and family. Materialism, ambition and mundane achievements are the worldly hallmarks of success. We experience the phenomenal world and our minds as solid and truly existent. Very few people doubt these assertions and question their solidity. Yet, the process of disbelief is the first step on the spiritual path. ~ Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Immediate Family quotes by Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
I'm a family man. I personally started 3 or 4 families last year. ~ David Lee Roth
Immediate Family quotes by David Lee Roth
Different people define "the good life" in different ways. To me, the good life includes active participation in family, church and community. It means making time for playing with kids, teaching them important religious and moral principles in the home, going to church with them and spending enough time with them that they know you care. It requires being a partner with your spouse, allowing him or her to grow in her own right, to spread her wings and fly. It includes participating in the community -- committees, service, voting, perhaps public office. It means having enough financial base that there is some flexibility in life, without which the previous activities just described are very limited. ~ Kenneth Ross French
Immediate Family quotes by Kenneth Ross French
One family
we dwell in Him,
One church above, beneath,
Though now divided by the stream,
The narrow stream of death. ~ Charles Wesley
Immediate Family quotes by Charles Wesley
Your life have to be filled with interesting tales that it should not bore your grandchildren, when you tell them someday. ~ Pradeepa Pandiyan
Immediate Family quotes by Pradeepa Pandiyan
The way Disney characters move, they're very kind of slow and fluid and flowing; one pose kind of eases into the next. If you look at a show like 'The Simpsons' and subsequently a show like 'Family Guy' - the characters will jerk from pose to pose a lot, a bit more snappy. Which sort of goes along with the writing tone of the show. ~ Seth MacFarlane
Immediate Family quotes by Seth MacFarlane
The idea that the family is this locus of support but can also hold you back and keep you down makes for good drama. ~ James Gray
Immediate Family quotes by James Gray
If you hate the poor,
do not ask The Divine One for wealth.
If you hate the despised,
do not ask The Divine One for honor.
If you hate the oppressed,
do not ask The Divine One for freedom.
If you hate the lowly,
do not ask The Divine One for influence.

If you hate the fatherless,
do not ask The Divine One for children.
If you hate the lonely,
do not ask The Divine One for friends.
If you hate the orphaned,
do not ask The Divine One for parents.
If you hate the divorced,
do not ask The Divine One for a family.

If you hate the weak,
do not ask The Divine One for strength.
If you hate the helpless,
do not ask The Divine One for might.
If you hate the timid,
do not ask The Divine One for courage.
If you hate the helpless,
do not ask The Divine One for power.

If you hate the avarage,
do not ask The Divine One for excellence.
If you hate the common,
do not ask The Divine One for nobility.
If you hate the meek,
do not ask The Divine One for authority.
If you hate the gentle,
do not ask The Divine One for fortitude.

If you hate the confused,
do not ask The Divine One for understanding.
If you hate the perplexed,
do not ask The Divine One for insight.
If you hate the ignorant,
do not ask The Divine One for knowledge.
If you hate the senseless,
do not ask The Divine One ~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Immediate Family quotes by Matshona Dhliwayo
For me, success is being able to give back to your friends, your family, your community, those in need and the world entire. ~ Richie Sambora
Immediate Family quotes by Richie Sambora
Taking care of those you love should never feel like a burden to you. It should never be a burden to you. If it is, you don't have the right heart about it, and you're taking all those beautiful things around you for granted. Sure, everything won't always be roses, but a family is one of the most precious things you can have.

You might have to work your fingers to the bone. You might struggle. You might have to get up and smile, even when you don't feel like smiling. You may have to tell your family that things will be okay, even if you feel like you are falling apart. However, you're not the only one who sees what you're going through. You are never alone, and happiness is something you can choose even when things are going in the opposite direction of where you thing you need to be headed. Choose to see the blessings around you, instead of the bad things. It's a privilege, and something you may not always have, so treasure it. Cherish every moment like the gift it is, and work with a generous and privileged heart.

(Note: Inspired by the quote in the movie 'Me Again' that says, "It's not a burden, but a privilege.") ~ Jennifer Megan Varnadore
Immediate Family quotes by Jennifer Megan Varnadore
The immediate issue here is whether the Pooh animals realise they constitute a de facto nudist colony. ~ Frederick C. Crews
Immediate Family quotes by Frederick C. Crews
When I was going on auditions, it was nerve-racking. I'd always say to my mom that it would be awesome if I could get a series. When Modern Family came along, I said, 'You know what, Mom? I believe I'm going to get this role.' ~ Rico Rodriguez
Immediate Family quotes by Rico Rodriguez
I seem to have to make my characters family before I can access their hearts in any way that matters. ~ Junot Diaz
Immediate Family quotes by Junot Diaz
The more money you take away from families is the less power that family has. And that's a basic power. ~ Rick Santorum
Immediate Family quotes by Rick Santorum
It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed. ~ Charles Dickens
Immediate Family quotes by Charles Dickens
I come from a family of servants. My father's father was a servant, and my father's father's father was a slave. ~ Lee Daniels
Immediate Family quotes by Lee Daniels
I was into third guesses with Theo and Maddy. Anyway, that's one of the reasons I opted to buy
the van and drive cross-country instead of dumping us all in a plane. It gave us some time. Nothing
like a three-thousand-mile drive in an enclosed vehicle to cement a family unit - if you live through
it."
"It was very brave of you."
"You want to talk courage?" He drove easily up the lane to the villa. "I've been chief taste-tester
on this wine experiment Maddy's conducting. It's brut ~ Nora Roberts
Immediate Family quotes by Nora Roberts
True blues ain't no new news about who's been abused
For the blues is as old as my stolen soul
I sang the blues when the missionaries came
Passing out bibles in Jesus' name
I sang the blues in the hull of the ship
Beneath the sting of the slavemaster's whip
I sang the blues when the ship anchored the dark
My family being sold on a slave block
I sang the blues being torn from my first born
And hung my head and cried when my wife took his life
And then committed suicide.
I sang the blues on the slavemaster's plantation helping
Him build his free nation
I sang the blues in the cottonfield, hustlin' to make the daily yield
I sang the blues when he forced my woman to beg
Lord knows how I wished he was dead
I sang the blues on the run, ducking the dogs and dodging the gun
I sang the blues hanging from the tree in a desperate attempt to break free
I sang the blues when the sun went down, cursing the master when he wasn't around
I sang the blues in all these wars dying for some unknown cause
I sang the blues in a high tone, low moan, loud groan, soft grunt, hard funk
I sang the blues in land sea and air, about who when why and where
I sang the blues in church on sunday, slaving on monday, misused on tuesday, abused on wednesday, accused on thursday, fried alive on friday, and died on saturday.
Sho nuff singing the blues
I sang the blues in the summer, fall winter ~ Jalal Mansur Nuriddin
Immediate Family quotes by Jalal Mansur Nuriddin
I tell my kids and my grandkids, 'Never forget where you came from. Never forget your roots.' My grandkids, they didn't go through the hard times as much as other ones in our family did. One thing is to just never forget where you came from and you never forget that nothing is more important than your relationship with Jesus Christ. ~ Kay Robertson
Immediate Family quotes by Kay Robertson
The Sewing Machine Charm

To A Life Bound by Family, The Thread That Ties Us All Together ~ Viola Shipman
Immediate Family quotes by Viola Shipman
You can read the best experts on child care. You can listen to those who have been there. You can take a whole childbirth and child-care course without missing a lesson. But you won't really know a thing about yourselves and each other as parents, or your baby as a child, until you have her in your arms. That's the moment when the lifelong process of bringing up a child into the fold of the family begins. ~ Stella Chess
Immediate Family quotes by Stella Chess
My father was a Jewish immigrant who settled in Argentina and was left to his own devices at the age of 15. My mother was a teacher, herself the daughter of a poor immigrant family. ~ Cesar Milstein
Immediate Family quotes by Cesar Milstein
I have been able to have a family and to dedicate quality time to my two sets of twins and my husband, as well as to serve on the boards of The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and Montefiore Medical Center. ~ Karen Finerman
Immediate Family quotes by Karen Finerman
The image of a teenage boy dressed in a black uniform, his babyish face partly obscured by an official looking cap, paralysed every muscle and nerve in her body. The pink telegram loomed large in her line of sight... ~ Michael J. Murphy
Immediate Family quotes by Michael J. Murphy
that kid may not carry my DNA, but by God, I don't care. I love that little shit like my own and I want to be his daddy. ~ Heather M. Orgeron
Immediate Family quotes by Heather M. Orgeron
Working with family is probably one of the hardest things in business, but it can also be one of the most rewarding. You have to be very, very careful that you don't overstep the boundaries that you wouldn't with anyone else. Sometimes, we think that the unconditional love they have for us makes overstepping boundaries alright. It's really not. You have to work harder to not damage the family dynamic. That lasts forever. ~ Paula Deen
Immediate Family quotes by Paula Deen
Here was a monument, in fieldstone, to the art of family life. ~ Judith Thurman
Immediate Family quotes by Judith Thurman
So I guess I'm ready to ... start dating. I want to get married again. Have a family." Ethan leans forward, causing Fat Mikey to jump off his lap. "I see," he says. I look at the floor for a second. "Right." Risking a peek at Ethan, I add, "So we should probably stop sleeping together. ~ Kristan Higgins
Immediate Family quotes by Kristan Higgins
Wes is Wes," Alastair said. "One in every family. I love him, but I think of him as a sarcastic pet. ~ John Scalzi
Immediate Family quotes by John Scalzi
The fact is that life is like the river: endlessly moving on, ever seeking, exploring, pushing, overflowing its banks, penetrating every crevice with its water. But you see, the mind won't allow that to happen to itself. The mind sees that it is dangerous, risky to live in a state of impermanency, insecurity, so it builds a wall around itself; the wall of tradition, of organized religion, of political and social theories. Family, name,property,the littel virtues that we have cultivated - these are all within the walls, away from life. Life is moving, impermanent, and it ceaselessly tries to penetrate, to break down these walls, behind which there is a confusion an misery. The gods within the walls are false gods, and their writings and philosophies have no meaning because life is beyond
Think on these things chap. 17 ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Immediate Family quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti
Our shadow is on the outside. And we can see in the dark: we can see you, we see you turn away, but one day we finally understand that you turn away not from our faces but from your own fears. From those things inside you that you think mark you as someone unlovable to your family, and society, and even to God. ~ Anne Lamott
Immediate Family quotes by Anne Lamott
One night a flock of red-tailed black cockatoos break the quiet as they charge up from the creek, right over the homestead, then down the hill towards Clem's house.
'They're my favourite, you know, of all the birds, they're the best,' comes Tom's raspy whisper.
'I know Dad,' says Clem. 'You always say.'
'They're majestic, dramatic. You wouldn't argue with one. ~ Nicole Sinclair
Immediate Family quotes by Nicole Sinclair
Why am I always apologizing? They should be apologizing to me! I didn't do anything wrong! I just wanted their love!
I won't compromise or apologize for something I didn't know. ~ Charlena E. Jackson
Immediate Family quotes by Charlena E.  Jackson
My entire life had been this long, pressured conversation about the family I represented. 'When you walk out the door, you represent us. You have to dress well and make sure your hair is combed.' ~ Armie Hammer
Immediate Family quotes by Armie Hammer
At the same time I grew increasingly dissatisfied and irritable with what we are prone to call normal life. Except for wine, music, and books, I disliked shopping. Television grated on my nerves, the commercials in particular, so I got rid of the television. I found it harder and harder to rouse any interest in sports, celebrities, electronic gadgets, the chatter of the culture, the latest this or that. Nor did I have any desire to own a house, or get rich, or start a family. I wanted to keep traveling and see the world, live an eventful, unpredictable life with as much personal freedom as possible, and have a few adventures along the way. ~ Richard Grant
Immediate Family quotes by Richard Grant
I've been protecting you since I joined the Mauricio family. You were why I joined them in the first place. ~ Tijan
Immediate Family quotes by Tijan
Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible-from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of our soil to the genius [of] our scientists ... ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Immediate Family quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is no home as comfortable as your father's arms and no bed as soft as your mother's lap. ~ Faraaz Kazi
Immediate Family quotes by Faraaz Kazi
I come from a very expressive family, so it's really not surprising that we became actors. There was a lot of real-life drama in our house. Some of it was drama, some of it was comedy and some of it was comic-tragedy. ~ John Turturro
Immediate Family quotes by John Turturro
That's what you're after? Establishing new case
precedence? Never going to happen. Not on this point. You
want to turn Dani. Assuming she's ever Dani again."
"Nobody's turning my fucking honey," Lor muttered
darkly.
"You took the Highlander, as your test case," Barrons
said.
Ryodan said nothing.
"Kas doesn't speak. X is half mad on a good day,
bugfuck crazy on a bad one. You're tired of it. You want your
family back. You want a full house, like the old days. ~ Karen Marie Moning
Immediate Family quotes by Karen Marie Moning
Me? Robin Goodfellow, a family man? He, not likely, ice-boy. I mean, think of what that would do to my reputation." Glamour shimmered around him, and he gave us a wink. "Later, lovebirds. Gimme a heads up when the kid arrives. 'Uncle Puck' will be waiting. ~ Julie Kagawa
Immediate Family quotes by Julie Kagawa
The peculiar predicament of the present-day self surely came to pass as a consequence of the disappointment of the high expectations of the self as it entered the age of science and technology. Dazzled by the overwhelming credentials of science, the beauty and elegance of the scientific method, the triumph of modern medicine over physical ailments, and the technological transformation of the very world itself, the self finds itself in the end disappointed by the failure of science and technique in those very sectors of life which had been its main source of ordinary satisfaction in past ages.

As John Cheever said, the main emotion of the adult Northeastern American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment.

Work is disappointing. In spite of all the talk about making work more creative and self-fulfilling, most people hate their jobs, and with good reason. Most work in modern technological societies is intolerably dull and repetitive.

Marriage and family life are disappointing. Even among defenders of traditional family values, e.g., Christians and Jews, a certain dreariness must be inferred, if only from the average time of TV viewing. Dreary as TV is, it is evidently not as dreary as Mom talking to Dad or the kids talking to either.

School is disappointing. If science is exciting and art is exhilarating, the schools and universities have achieved the not inconsiderable feat of rendering bot ~ Walker Percy
Immediate Family quotes by Walker Percy
I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen. Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy and family. Patriotic to a fault and allergic to cruelty, ignorance and bad music. ~ Bernie Taupin
Immediate Family quotes by Bernie Taupin
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