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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
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever the changes, from one era to the next, Pocono has maintained its character and significance to me, and it always will. My family shares this sentiment.
- Knife
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- Nov 07, 2020
As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with the giant vat and drainer, label them, and give them as Christmas presents.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a chance to go on the Supreme Court of the United States, and my whole family was more disappointed in my deciding not to do that than in my deciding not to run for president - much more.
- Intuition
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family was pious and Presbyterian mainly because my grandfather was pious and Presbyterian, but that was more of an inherited intuition than an actual fact.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There has been a lot of movement in my family, but in a way, it has been great. It has made me adaptable. I can plonk myself anywhere.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a huge family history with Singapore because we have the duty-free shops in the airports. It's a very industrious city. It's beautiful, and Singaporeans have this wonderful desire for, and love of, luxury goods. You can see how well thought out and planned the city is with the best boutiques.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's very important to have the stewardship of a company by a family member.
- Embedded
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- Nov 07, 2020
The paradigm of the 'Aquarian Conspiracy' sees humankind embedded in nature. It promotes the autonomous individual in a decentralized society... The new perspective respects the ecology of everything: birth, death, learning, health, family, work, science, spirituality, the arts, the community, relationships, politics.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was strict and always taught me, no matter who it is, everybody is an uncle. To me, everybody was someone I respect like family. I grew up with that.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I pity my brother Ferdinand, knowing by my own feelings how sad a thing it is to live apart from one's family.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.
- Nov 07, 2020