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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Family, to me, is about surrounding yourself with loved ones and having them by your side, no matter what happens.
- Electric Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose I am a frustrated musician so I annoy my family by playing guitar in the house. I used to be into acoustic stuff but my son Joseph is learning drums, so now I have an electric guitar and we play Metallica. We have an amp and a PA in the garage with his drum kit.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thanksgiving is a big one for our family.
- Incredible
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be incredible to be a dad and raise a family.
- Chose
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- Nov 07, 2020
We chose to be a family, not a band.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Asia, it's customary to get together with your entire extended family on a regular basis, and it's all rife with politics.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remembered that my grandfather had spent his teenage years in Shanghai and that he went back after he finished medical school to work there in a hospital. So I went back into my family archives and was able to find out his exact address; it was a street that was in the French Concession.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would not call my family 'traditional Chinese.' We were more what I would term the Colonial Chinese.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's so much emphasis on the economic might of China, of Southeast Asia, Asian 'Super Tigers' and things like that. But nobody was really looking from the perspective of a family story, of these individuals.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every family is a crazy family.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're all fascinated by the way other people live their lives, how they cope with hardship and triumph, what they put in their home movies and family albums.
- Party
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family was not Republicans. I'm the youngest. I came to this party based upon choice.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first son Tony was born when I was only eighteen. I was a still a kid; I wasn't ready to be a dad, so he was put up for adoption and went off to live with a family that could care for him.
- Nov 07, 2020