- Success
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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
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our sister Alma was the best hitter in the family. We used to soak corn cobs in water so they wouldn't fly so far when we hit 'em. Alma was the first to hit one far enough to break a window in the barn.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Goonies' is classic. That's, like, the movie I bring with me if I go out of town for a long time, because it just makes me think of the best times I've seen it with my friends growing up. Dude, everybody knows that movie, everybody watches that film. Best family film ever made.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My whole family is in orthotics and prosthetics, so I grew up having to check for scoliosis every week. 'Come over. Let me feel your spine.'
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a family that has grown their own food from well into times of slavery, provided for themselves and people around them. So I found, through conversations about the earth and about the house with my neighbors, a lot of common ground.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The women and the men are teachers and preachers in my family, and a little bit of both those fell on me.
- Style
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family will be disappointed only if I'm disappointed, and hopefully that won't be the case. I'm trying to view the Olympics like any other race and I think the London course will suit my style.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
A family is something that I definitely want, but I'm 26, so I have plenty of time, and I try not to kind of confuse the two because, if I'm lucky enough, I want to make having a baby a personal decision rather than a career-defined one.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honestly, I had no idea I was different from other kids until I started kindergarten. To my family, I was just Lizzie.
- Motivational
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- Nov 07, 2020
I told myself that I wanted to be a motivational speaker, I wanted to write a book, graduate college, have my own family, and have my own career.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am two different people. What you see on the court is just natural for me. I wear my heart on my sleeve. I have always said 'C'mon' purely to fire myself up. Off the court, I am a lot shyer. I stick to my team and my family and people I trust.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
- Support
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- Nov 07, 2020