- 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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very fortunate. I have a wonderful family, lots of hobbies and athletic pursuits. I always wanted to have a very well-rounded life.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a very active imagination as a kid, and I was constantly performing, whether I was making money doing it or not, whether it was on a stage in front of 1,000 people or in the living room in front of my family.
- Funny Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a funny thing when you know someone and you meet their siblings - you get so much a sense of who they are because when you can recognize similar traits in the family, you understand exactly why they are the way they are.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Outlander' is filmed mostly around Glasgow and the central belt of Scotland, so it's lovely for me because I get to go up and spend time in the place that I lived for three years. I've got a bunch of friends in the cast because a lot of them studied at the same college as I did, and I get to see my family, most of whom now live in Scotland.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
- Plan
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.
- I Wish
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I've done, but it was right for me.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of my family on both sides have worked in education and nursing, and my grandmother was a nurse; my sister is a nurse, and her - my other sister's daughter is going into nursing. There's a lot of that in the family.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
The imperfections in my family made me learn to deal with things on my own and solve problems for myself.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.
- Nov 07, 2020