- Each Time
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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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love your family. Love your country. Never stop learning... And always look back and be grateful to where you came from.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we were kids, my favorite thing was coming to upstate New York where my family is from and hanging out with my grandparents' friends pre-Internet and them asking if we had stores or 'Do you have TV in Alaska?'
- Legacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique. It's my family. The fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes us closer.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the marriage of publishing and politics simply weaves together the two family businesses.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
We grew up in my family thinking that politics was a really fascinating way to spend one's career and a way to be involved in the issues of the day. And certainly, my father and my relatives really loved all that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America we believe that every child, no matter where they live, who their family is, or what the color of their skin, is entitled to as good an education as the richest parent in America can give to their children.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the summer of 1952, when I was 30, the Army assigned me to an infantry unit fighting in Korea. Meanwhile, though, there was other news in my family: My father had become the Republican presidential nominee. As an ambitious young major, I refused any offers for other assignments.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there is empirical evidence that if you look at family controlled businesses, they actually outperform in terms of results and also valuations, the broader market.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
We stayed there 24 hours a day. We lived and ate and slept that movie. We were enthusiastic, not just because of the movie, but because we had such a great collaborative team. We had a really good time. It was very much a family.
- Episcopal
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- Nov 07, 2020
My aunt Geraldine was the unofficial historian and storyteller. She had all the information about family members and the gossip that came out of the church because we were very much part of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. At family gatherings, the older folk had the floor, had pride of place, and it was their stories I remember.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020