- Attempting
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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
- Grew
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a dysfunctional family.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tune in to Kids and Family Week is perfect for me.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
We weren't your mainstream '50s family. Both my parents had wonderful, eccentric, artistic friends who treated us as friends as well. How your mind worked was considered important.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
'17 Again' was one of the best times of my life. The whole cast was really close. We were like a family. When we weren't working, we'd all hang out. It was a great group of people.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love all the holidays and getting to see my family a lot during the fall. I also love the weather and getting to wear sweaters and jackets.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather sold insurance to King Farouk of Egypt. And my savta's parents helped found the city of Tel Aviv in 1906. Our family name used to be Mizrahi, but they changed it to Mayron, which means 'happy water' in Hebrew.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like my children to learn that anything is possible if you put your mind to it, and that when you make a decision to do something like pursuing the Olympics, like I have, it needs to be a family affair.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of 'em, but I think mostly from my mother's side of the family.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, it comes from my mother's side of the family. She had seven sisters and one brother, and all of them could play instruments. I suppose I picked it up from that.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The election of the Jewish people is the result of God's falling in love with Abraham and founding a family with him.
- Class Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look, everything that you experience as a kid is the foundation of how you are today. I was brought up in a working class family in Leeds and when it comes to money both my parents worked hard and instilled the same attitude into me.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christmas traditions are important in my family. Being half English and half Polish-Lithuanian, we have two separate celebrations.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the youngest of four in a large, exhibitionist family. The only way to get attention was to throw yourself off the top of a ladder - as one of my cousins used to do - or make people laugh.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020