- People
- |
- 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
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
She's not forgiven me, but we have a wonderful life from our family and that's the nature and quality of that woman that she can say that.
- Fear
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Changing our consumer behaviour is similar to quitting smoking. Unless people are shocked into doing it, either by social disapproval or family disapproval or fear of the medical consequences, they'll just keep on smoking.
- Great
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.
- Race
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The bloodline of Jesus is thicker, deeper, stronger than the bloodline of race, ethnicity and family.
- Happiness
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Though I have drawn my sword in the present generous struggle for the rights of men, yet I am not in arms as an American, nor am I in pursuit of riches. My fortune is liberal enough, having no wife nor family, and having lived long enough to know that riches cannot ensure happiness.
- More
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a family of piano players. Both my sisters were serious players, and they both, as they became more accomplished, aspired to buy a Steinway and asked my dad to buy a Steinway.
- Language
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.
- Friends
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I have a legion of friends and the best ones are my immediate family, which is very cliched but true.
- Never
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were not at all backstage parents. We had none of that in the family. It was just very clear right away that I was an actor, even from 4 years old. I've never waited a table. I taught some - I'll teach classes in improv or Shakespeare, but there's some motor in me that needs to do that.
- My Life
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The events of my life are too unimportant, and have too little interest for any person not of my immediate family, to render them worth communicating or preserving.
- Born
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020