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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

Family Quotes

A little more than kin, and less than kind.

– William Shakespeare

Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 2. These are Hamlet’s first words in the play where he uses an ironic pun. His play on words is a withering assessment of his relationship with the new king of Denmark, his uncle Claudius. Claudius is twice related to him, as uncle and stepfather, but he sees him as neither his kin or kind.

My mother instilled in my sister, Maya, and me the values that would chart the course of our lives. She raised us to be proud, strong Black women. And she raised us to know and be proud of our Indian heritage. She taught us to put family first – the family you’re born into and the family you choose.

– Kamala Harris

People who work for me know that family comes first. And I’m fortunate to have a family that is very supportive of the work I do, so I don’t have to live two separate lives.

– Kamala Harris

You really just want to give people a hug.

– Prince Charles

On missing family during coronavirus lockdown.

Everything out there is the cyclone. And then there’s the solid thing at the center of it all. The solid star is my family.

– Daisy Ridley

Describing her tattoo, swirling winds around a star.

I think money’s for the safety of your family and friends, and you can’t take it with you.

– Ricky Gervais

Brothers and sisters should never be in the same family.

– Charles M. Schulz

Peanuts, Linus van Pelt.

It was my father who – after, at age 15, I had attempted unsuccessfully to drive the family car using a ‘borrowed’ key and knocked down a wall of the garage – convinced me over the telephone not to run away from home and who then came home from work not to punish me but rather to console and comfort me.

– H. Robert Horvitz

I have never wanted a family. I don’t believe in marriage, though I obviously believe it should be legal for everyone who wants to do it. But it is not something I believe in, nor do the characters in my book, nor do any of my friends.

– Hanya Yanagihara

In my family, we were Americans, we were Republicans and we were Methodists.

– Hillary Clinton

We’ve all been affected by divorce in one way or another, whether we’ve experienced it personally, or witnessed family or friends go through it.

– Heather Burns

My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That’s what I mean by respectability.

– Hanif Kureishi

Iraq… has also had contacts with al-Qaida. Their ties may be limited by divergent ideologies, but the two sides’ mutual antipathy toward the United States and the Saudi royal family suggests that tactical cooperation between them is possible.

– George Tenet

People are going to like 3-D in their family photos.

– Howard Stringer

Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.

– Herbert Hoover

‘White Collar’ is really a unique family where people kind of all get each other, and they’re all on the same page. I was really fortunate because when I got there, I kind of just immediately fit right in with everybody.

– Gloria Votsis

I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family.

– Guy Kawasaki

You can say I had a severe case of ‘Roots’ envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to… do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.

– Henry Louis Gates

After God and my family, it’s surf. I don’t imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.

– Gabriel Medina

I grew up on a farm in Lexington, Oklahoma, a rural community south of Norman. My family moved to Enid, Oklahoma, in 1962, when I was a junior in high school. This cast me into a totally different environment. Enid was a company town for Champlin Petroleum, and there was an oil boom going on.

– Harold Hamm

I’m lucky that I have my family, I’m lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.

– Hailey Baldwin

I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school.

– Harmony Korine

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they’re eating sandwiches.

– Jim Carrey

I come from a very big family, and I grew up in restaurants.

– Gloria Votsis

A lot of people in this business are born with money or family connections.

– Greta Van Susteren

It’s impossible to be someone you’re not, so quit trying. I am as passionate about my hobbies as I am about my work and my family. All three are equally important to me at all times.

– Gautam Singhania

I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.

– Heidi Klum

We know that if you educate a girl, as the saying goes, you educate a nation. That girl will get married later, she will have fewer children, she’s more likely to earn an income, and that income is more likely to be plowed back into the family so that the family benefits.

– Helene D. Gayle

It doesn’t matter what your pedigree is, who your family is or what degrees you have. What really matters is how you perform your job and how you produce results. Whoever could do the best job, that’s who the focus is on – and it definitely doesn’t matter if I am a woman or a man.

– Gracia Martore

When I came first to Dortmund, Jurgen Klopp said, ‘Listen, Mkhitaryan, it’s your family name – it’s too long. So Henrikh, it’s too long. Let’s call you Micki. Are you okay?’ I said, ‘Okay, no problem.’ And since that day, they started calling me Micki.

– Henrikh Mkhitaryan

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