- Father
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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm 100 years old, if I make it that long, when I die, probably the first tag line will be John McCain's daughter, and I'm so proud of him and proud of my family's legacy and our life, so I don't have a problem with it.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Family is everything to me. Family and health are the two most important things to me.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Turkey, you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were so many different labels coming to me and they just didn't seem right, but 300... they wanted me bad. It felt like a family.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really love Scrabble. I played it with my mother growing up. We took it everywhere with us. We didn't know then about the two letter words. Who knew that AA, or more controversially, ZA, or QI were words? We were a games family generally.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a family of readers. Our house smelled of book.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you were there behind every family's closed doors, everyone's a little wacko. Chances are that your family is no weirder than the next family or than the other girl at school's family. Everyone can be quirky at times, and I embrace that, personally.
- Blessing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad's family is part British and Austrian, and my mother's family is from Goa, which is in the south of India. I looked different from everyone else, which now is such a blessing. It was harder at the beginning of my career.
- Nov 07, 2020
In the Buddhist scriptures, it said many births cause suffering, so Buddhism is not against family planning.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family, they're story tellers. My mom is Irish, and my dad is Italian. In my family, we weren't allowed to watch TV while we ate - we had to sit around the table and tell stories about our day.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were a very funny family. Humour was the tool with which my brother and I tried to get attention. We were always trying to be the funniest.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sleeping with your child, wearing your child in a sling as opposed to pushing them around in expensive strollers, those are things that matter biologically and sociologically for the structure of a family.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020