- Life
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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
I don't necessarily want kids. A lot of our friends are having children and I don't know if it's for me. I haven't come down hardcore on either side of the argument. I think when people come from a stable family having children becomes a celebration and I'm not sure it would be that way for me.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
And the trajectory that our debt is taking now beyond $14 trillion is going to have an impact on our currency. It goes south, and our currency's going to have an impact on our standard of living and affect every family in this country, and over time, our international competitiveness.
- Relationship
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids leave us and go off on their own lives. Family members tell us what they think of us. Animals can't do that. They really are blank canvases, and we can project anything we want onto them. So the relationship is very pure and simple.
- Being Scared
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- Nov 07, 2020
Earliest musical memory is probably being scared stiff with my family's band as a youngster on stage playing the conga drums.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Batiste family is a large musical family in Louisiana, out in New Orleans. People go to New Orleans, and if they go to any club, four days out of the week I guarantee you that you will find a Batiste playing in the ensemble.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have seven uncles, and my dad played bass, they had a band together, that was the family band. And of course as the cousins got older, including myself, we joined a family band. All the cousins played. That's my heritage.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can fight for my honor, but fighting for my family is the most important thing. Making sure they get what they want. That's all that matters.
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first comic I read was a Spider-Man comic, and my introduction to it was through my family. My cousins are a lot older than me, and they've been huge comic book fans, from the jump.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm lucky to have a great support system in my friends and some of my family. If you have those people that you trust, go ahead and fall back into them and let them be your hammock and cocoon and let them embrace you.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always say that in any roomful of people, I could hive a novel out of any one person's family or life story.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My work's never been accepted by my family, but it's something I'll always carry on with.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family, the support of my friends, the amount of people that have written and come up to me on the street and said, 'Thank you for representing us,' and Adam Lambert, and Lady Gaga, that's been amazing.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020