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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family members. If this happens to me, I vow to seek out the responsible parties and haunt them to the point of death.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forced to stay together.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do all the cooking in our family. I'm a utilitarian cook, rather than an adventurous one - I only have about 15 recipes in my repertoire that I rotate - but I love being able to go down to the river and catch a 30 lb. salmon, then grill it on the barbecue.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to play a regular guy in a family drama.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.
- Nov 07, 2020
A family is really a union of two separate entities. When you get married, you are marrying one family into another.
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.
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- Nov 07, 2020
But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't understand that, because I think that what people like most about the show is that they recognize themselves in the characters and their problems, so the more believable the family is, the more we can draw the audience in.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community's children.
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- Nov 07, 2020