- Need
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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
- Grandfathers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think everyone in the band has had someone that's served in their family. I wouldn't say that anybody has a military family, but both of my grandfathers were in the military.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do think my childhood is one of the fundamental reasons that I'm able to do my job. We were raised in this totally nonjudgmental family. We never knew who was going to walk in the front door. And as a journalist and a photographer, you walk into so many different scenes that you have to be open to everything.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drag racing has played a big role in In-N-Out's history, and it is also an important part of my family history.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father is a Japanese Shotokan karate master, so I have been training karate with my family since I was three years old. I got my black belt in karate at 13 and got introduced to judo and sumo shortly after.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Believe me, I recognize the cultural and anatomical challenges and respect the sacrifices women make in order to balance family and a career, or family with no career, or career with no family.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my family history, there are generations of women who were abandoned by men. It's one of the themes of my family.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
And maybe that's being the third child, although my entire family are very resilient - very, very resilient.
- Moving Forward
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my husband Charles passed away in 2000, I took over as chair of our family's foundation. As I was mourning his loss, I also had to keep the foundation moving forward and to chart a course into what was then a very male-dominated philanthropic world.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our family was the most important part of Charlie's life. He loved us very much, and we adored him.
- Appreciation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been part of a family with a great appreciation for the arts.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family are very, very religious in Texas. They're Southern Baptists. I left to go to New York when I was 17 and I realised I wasn't Southern Baptist. That's not how I am inclined.
- Edgar
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- Nov 07, 2020
Epilepsy is a disease in the shadows. Patients are often reluctant to admit their condition - even to close family, friends or co-workers - because there's still a great deal of stigma and mystery surrounding the disease that plagued such historical figures as Julius Caesar, Edgar Allan Poe and Lewis Carroll.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020