- Love
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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
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am of the view that the Affordable Care Act will be a transformative piece of legislation that can lower the cost of health care in the United States - perhaps our greatest fiscal obstacle - and help all Americans lead healthy and productive lives, free from worry that a single illness could mean ruin for an entire family.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do come from a very close family. And I'm fascinated, in particular, with family relationships and the relationships that we all form with friends who feel as close, if not closer, than family.
- Family And Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family and friends have been monumentally supportive from well before I was a published author.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm known for value for money. I was brought up to be frugal, and it's definitely a factor in my success. I was born in the Fifties, which was a frugal era, and my family had to be very careful with money out of necessity.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
My objective is to leave my family adequately catered for, but I want my children to make their own way. I want them to have pride in their own achievements.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was only 21 when I bought a five-bedroom detached house in Stoke-on-Trent that was way outside of my financial status in life. I did it by borrowing money from my family and the bank, taking out a huge mortgage.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hang out with a lot of the people I did when I was in high school, when I was in college, and I have a strong unit of people around me, whether it be friends or family, and if my head gets too big, they will definitely check me immediately.
- Leaving
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents allowed their two sons to be individuals. My family was a wild and wonderful place, with lots of friends and neighbors visiting and talking loud and eating loud and nobody telling the children to be quiet or putting them down.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Southeast Asia the world is understood to be a vast, complex network of interdependent relationships. So when global capitalism makes it impossible for small-time rice farmers to feed their families and make a living, it is a natural thing for anyone in the family who can find an alternative source of income to do so.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a couple of years at the end of the 1970s, Dustin Hoffman was a fixture in our family. My father was his lawyer and friend.
- Boarding
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1986, when I was 21, I lived in Tokyo for four months, boarding with a Japanese family and working for an American company.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020