- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Family Quotes
On heritage, closeness and the pull of family.
These quotes touch on family in different forms: a sports club described as having a family feel, and personal reflections on growing up within a close, sometimes insular, family circle. For devotional lines on family, see our Prayers.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
The family is the first essential cell of human society.
- Nov 07, 2020
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time me and A Boogie connect in the studio, it's just always good vibes. It's like me being with one of my brothers or me being with one of my cousins or my family members.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime.
- Mama
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- Nov 07, 2020
What little family I got is in Mississippi. A whole lot of them died before I left, and my sister died a long time ago, before my mama did.
- Loyalty
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- Nov 07, 2020
As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still went to church regularly every Sunday; that is we all went there together. I reverenced the family pew where we had assembled for so many years; and apart from that reason I hold it dear because it is associated in my memory with my mother.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Barbara Broccoli was a great friend of my late wife's and continues to be someone who is very gracious with me, my family, and our life.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy, and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family have been wool merchants since the 19th century. My first job, aged 18, was buying fabric from my father to produce and sell ties. But I was also at university in Milan.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020