- Music
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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
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marriage in our Constitution is very clear that it's a man marrying a woman, largely with a view to having a natural family, and if they are unable to do that, obviously then they can adopt.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have enormous respect for people who come from a strong family background in Fine Gael.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always think that friends and family are off-bounds. I went into politics; they didn't.
- Farmer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mum is from West Waterford, Dungarvan. She's a farmer's daughter. She's a nurse. She left home very young - I think she was 18 - and went off to train as a nurse in England. My dad is from India, just south of Mumbai. He was one of the first in his family to go to college, and he went to England in the '70s; he emigrated there.
- Finance
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- Nov 07, 2020
After my father died, we were pretty much wiped out financially as a family, so I decided to give finance a try.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing like meeting someone's family to get a true sense of them and a reflection of their ethics and personality. It just makes them a more rounded person.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved 'The Wizard Of Oz.' It was, like, you know how some kids, they're crying, and they put on - people put on 'Frozen' to get them to chill and just be quiet? For my family, it was 'The Wizard Of Oz.' They would literally tell babysitters, if she gets - like, if she starts misbehaving or she starts acting crazy, just put 'The Wizard Of Oz' on.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My foster mother wanted to create a family home. For me, she had made a place that I felt I could always go back to, and that was what she was trying to do for these kids.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family is from a tiny town in Alabama. So all I wanted to do was get out of this town.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.
- Great Believer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is precious and relationships are precious. I'm a great believer in family.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know what happens when a woman earns money. She is far more likely than a man to spend her earnings on the health and education of her children and to invest in improving her family's standard of living.
- Great Example
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- Nov 07, 2020