- 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
Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand!
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have flown with British Airways since I was a very little child, so it feels quite special to have gone from family holidays flying around Europe to become a gold card holder and be spoiled enough to travel more than not in first class.
- Family Member
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anytime you have a family member getting out of prison, there's always drama.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, I returned to Europe... I annoyingly - looking back - turned down films like 007, 'For Your Eyes Only,' written specially for me.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I don't know what life would be like without my Chaplin connections, I work with them. I'm just really happy it's a family I can be proud of; it's not as if I'm related to some Z-list celebrity.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my own personal experience, I've had different family members who have been held in immigration detention because they've had some sort of challenge financially, and they were making difficult decisions, and that led to their immigration detention and, eventually, deportation.
- Chipping
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of the concessions that leading Democrats seem willing to make - from cutting diversity visas to chipping away at family visas - would be made on the backs of black immigrants, people from Africa and the Caribbean who deserve these policies to remain intact as some of the few legal tools they have to immigrate to this country.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm lucky that my family is musical. Music was encouraged. So when I saw Carlos Santana play and decided to really pursue the electric guitar in earnest, it was OK. My parents knew I was going to go for it.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020