- 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
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
A person can be big, because of spirit. A person can be big because of their position in the family, the hierarchy in the family. That role has been played by women who are quite thin.
- Classic Rock
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- Nov 07, 2020
None of my family are musicians, but there was a lot of classic rock and country going on. I always wanted to sing. As soon as I expressed an interest my mom was super supportive of me.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know whether that comes from having a family - having something very important at home that needed to be protected.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there is something that needs to be done on my behalf back home, for example, my brothers take care of it for me. I share everything with my family; all my happiness and success is theirs.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a gap in my work from '84 to 2002, 18 years where I stopped writing. I was working at fiction and other things and starting a school and getting married and starting a family, but I wasn't writing poetry for the better part of 15 years.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sure it came as no surprise to my friends and family when I became an illustrator and then a writer because, from about the age of five, I was one of those children who always had his nose in a book.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Faith, family, and football is how I prioritize my life. And they all go together, but they go in that order.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father converted from being Southern Baptist when I was very young. He was determined that we get to Mass every Sunday, which served as the foundation for everything else. You simply do not miss Mass. Period. When the father of the family says we go, then we go.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know what I'm about. My teammates know, my family knows, everything else, I can't worry about.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Plays are a pretty big commitment. It takes a minimum of three months out of your life, really. And if you have family or kids, then at least during the rehearsal period for five or six weeks, you kind of say goodbye to everybody.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020