- Life
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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
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother.
- Nov 07, 2020
You are a member of the British royal family. We are never tired, and we all love hospitals.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one in my family was a journalist, and it didn't seem like a real job. Part of me still doesn't think it is.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a journalist and longtime photographer, I love Instagram and the connection it gives me to my friends and family as I journey afar or for me to view their lives from my perch back home.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the old parts of Nice, the family tables are out in the cobbled streets so that you can't drive past. They insist you join them at midnight on a hot July evening. So that's just what you do, abandoning the car.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Between planning family vacations and running away for novel-writing retreats, I've spent much of my adult life questing for the perfect beach escape, renting cottages all along the Florida Gulf and up and down the Atlantic Coast - as far north as Nags Head, as far south as Key West.
- Nov 07, 2020
I started athletics in 1999, throwing discus and shot put. I didn't tell my family when I started boxing.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Manipur, mostly the top player's family background is very poor. I also come from a poor family, so we have to do more hard work to get money and a better life.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
We would be doing the children of South Asia a great disservice if we allowed ourselves to believe that the need of children to belong to a loving, permanent family was washed away by the waves of the tsunami.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family.
- Complicated
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I'm finding is there's an awful lot about adoption and relinquishment and the complicated nature of family that we, as human beings, haven't been able to have a real discussion about yet without a lot of censorship.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
If somebody in a family is in service, the whole family is in service. I didn't know that. I didn't know our veterans were being deployed seven, eight, nine, 10 times. It's inhumane.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020