- 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
- Dragged
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me.
- Dragged
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me. I never really wanted to do anything else.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm lucky to have been blessed with a great family and a wonderful Christian wife.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd never stop traveling, and I love bringing my family along with me. My children have points of reference everywhere, friends from Milan to Los Angeles. I think it's really fun for them.
- If I Could
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I could kidnap Bryan Doyle-Murray and force him to be in my family, I would. I love him; I really do.
- Nov 07, 2020
We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Barack's mother was very important to him, but he spent a great deal of his life living in a different place. So, as all kids do, you always have a fantasy of what perfection would be. And my guess is that Michelle's childhood was his idea of perfection. It allowed him to anchor himself with her and with her family.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came from a working-class family, but I was supported by a grant system and had my fees paid, so I came out of Oxford with a debt of something like £200.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020