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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
- Extended
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- Nov 07, 2020
Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've spent a great deal of time over the past decade as a caregiver for various family members. It gives me a perspective on the struggles that many New Yorkers face with illness, disability, health care, insurance difficulties, and trying to work with and also take care of family members.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very pleased with being a part of the Bean Pole family. It's a relationship that makes sense to me. I'm very pleased to have my name associated with Bean Pole Jeans.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family put a lot of emphasis on homework, so there weren't too many comic books or video games for me, when I was growing up.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.
- Clever
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't necessarily the brightest in my family. I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in China, but I live in the U.S. and I want my children to understand what's going on over there. They ask me sometimes, 'Are we Chinese or Australians?' My family are in L.A., New York and China, and they have the freedom to go back and forth, which is really, really nice.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?'
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.
- Great Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, I think having a great family like I do. You know, I tend to want to give it all I have when I'm at the golf course, and then when I leave I don't want to think about golf at all. And I just remind myself almost daily that golf's just my job, it's not who I am.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents' No. 1 priority is the kids' education.
- Enough Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
For some reason, I don't spend enough time getting to see my family because I'm always touring or working or whatnot.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Isn't that the great thing about Christmas? You get a lot of respite, time to recharge your batteries, time with family without too much else happening anywhere else in the world, time to focus on the people you love and the activities that you enjoy, time to exercise, to read.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
The word 'cancer' carries with it enormous fear, fear for the future, fear for family.
- Firearms
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- Nov 07, 2020