"Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation"

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Source : "Queen's speech: William and Kate's wedding a reminder of value of loved ones, says Queen in Christmas message". www.mirror.co.uk. December 25, 2011.

Queen Elizabeth II

#Friendship Quotes #Relationship Quotes #Family Quotes

“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.”

Source : James Oppenheim (1916). “War and Laughter”
“How often you are irresistibly drawn to a plain, unassuming woman, whose soft silvery tones render her positively attractive! In the social circle, how pleasant it is to hear a woman talk in that low key which always characterizes the true lady. In the sanctuary of home, how such a voice soothes the fretful child and cheers the weary husband!”
“I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.”
“I think Australia has to be a country which has the 'Welcome' sign out.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear.”
“The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly absorbed by fictions, and thus the cry in the poem may come to sound louder, more urgent, more real than the cry in the street outside. The death in the novel may move us more potently than the death in the next room. Thus there may be a covert, betraying link between the cultivation of aesthetic response and the potential of personal inhumanity.”
“If you're lucky on a team, even if you're not sisters or brothers, you become such a family that you get that kind of open and honest relationship. Where the chemistry is great and even if tempers flare, you forgive each other. I was always looking for a sisterhood. You're not always lucky enough to get that magical chemistry, but you can't win without it.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“I don't want anyone writing in to point out that I spend too much money on books, many of which I will never read. I know that already. I certainly intend to read all of them, more or less. My intentions are good. Anyway, it's my money. And I'll bet you do it too.”

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