- 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
- Creation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I set out to tell my story, which is based on my family. Dr. Cosby told his story in 'The Cosby Show.' The comparisons stop there in terms of my creation of the show. We just both happen to have black fathers at the center of it.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tried to do Kwanzaa with my family and was like, 'This sucks. What am I doing this for?' For me, I felt like I was doing it because I was trying to live up to someone else's idea of what 'black' was.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
Financing is always the hard part, especially if you don't have friends or family to back you, which was my case and the case for most designers.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of my family were teachers, so that's what I always thought I'd end up being.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother - who's from Iowa - owns and runs her own day-care centre, while my father's a developer. And my musical influences, I think, came from my father's side of the family.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
The industry should take comfort in knowing that WinStar is my main focus after my faith and family.
- Hospital
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- Nov 07, 2020
On Octover 16th, 2013, I moved to Liberia with my family to serve as a medical missionary at ELWA Hospital in the capital city of Morovia.
- Isolation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ebola is a humiliating disease that strips you of your dignity. You are removed from family and put into isolation where you cannot even see the faces of those caring for you due to the protective suits - you can only see their eyes.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, when you're poor and you have a bunch of kids in your family, you don't know that everybody's not poor.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
We busted a lot of family secrets with this. But to make a long story short, my parents relationship was built heavily on security issues for my Mom, and when my Dad couldn't provide security, the relationship unraveled.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
This country was founded on a core set of family values. These values should not be discouraged and blatantly undermined by the airing of offensive material on broadcast television and radio.
- Sports
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- Nov 07, 2020
It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll tell you what I'm grateful for, and that's the clarity of understanding that the most important things in life are health, family and friends, and the time to spend on them.
- Entire Time
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- Nov 07, 2020