- Growing Up
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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
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want events of that nature ever to happen again, and I have dedicated an important part of my life to ensuring that and to the reunion of all Chileans.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to the community, so when women have an income, everybody wins.
- Nov 07, 2020
It isn't that women are less ambitious, but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm going to miss the wind tunnel between Buildings 3 and 4. The ways in which the parking situation forced me to get 'creative.' Bob Ley and his snide comments. Trey Wingo and his snarky comments. Meeting so many people who I respect the hell out of. And the bizarre if not dysfunctional 'SportsNation' family.
- Downstairs
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite surprised to hear that, that I'm not actually posh.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family keeps me sane. I try to talk to my mum every other day. After I get off the phone, I have a renewed sense of clarity, so I guess a problem shared is a problem lost. It's important to me to keep them close.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
- Partner
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any MP has to have a proper family life, they have to have support of their partner.
- Genes
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are fashioned not by our genes, but by our environment - by the family and socio-historic conditions in which we evolve.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do not possess an official certificate of birth for worship of one God. But the family line is clear: the Jews invented it to endure the coherence, cohesion and existence of their small, threatened people.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a - a call for the federal constitutional amendment, because people want to make sure that this definition of marriage remains secure, because after all, the family is the fundamental unit of government.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, the idea that any kind of disaster helps create a nation seems a ridiculous one. There was no family in the house on the land next to me, and there might have been.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have known Boris Johnson since 2004. I wrote the first big profile about him in the American press. I've been edited by him when he ran the Spectator. I know his family.
- Family Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Donald Trump is a family man.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't come from a Hollywood family. I don't have Hollywood friends. I didn't have any connections.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's probably fair to say that there is a certain amount of pressure to deliver your next role when you do have a fan base as potent as the 'Battlestar Galactica' family. There was certainly a lot of curiosity to all of us on that show - what are you going to do next? Where can we see you next? That was a question we got more often than not.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020