- Memories
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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
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I didn't know anybody who didn't have a miner in the family. Both of my grandfathers were miners.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother always taught me, 'If you don't have a home, family, and church, you don't have anything.'
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important thing to Ben and me was starting a family, so as soon as we got engaged, we booked Gurney's in Montauk - which is just a few miles down the beach from our summer home - as our wedding venue a full year and a half out, and then we immediately started trying to get pregnant.
- Cookies
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- Nov 07, 2020
For most of our young lives, my family was baffled by elementary school bake sales, to which we were told to bring in goodies to sell. While other kids arrived bearing brownies, chocolate chip cookies, and apple pies, Chinese families didn't bake.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments involving sticky-rice stuffing or newfangled basting techniques that we read about in magazines.
- Beam
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I made an announcement to my family at 8 that I wanted to be an actor, and I focused like a laser beam on it. I never had a fallback plan.
- Brook
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Westchester, NY. I grew up around the Rye Brook area, and then I moved to White Plains with my family.
- Death Tax
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- Nov 07, 2020
The death tax destroys family businesses and stifles investment that leads to increases in jobs and personal income. As a result, 70 percent of family-owned businesses are not passed on to the next generation and 87 percent do not make it to the third generation.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to feel my autonomy. Other than that brief gap, we have always been a very close family.
- Driveway
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to have a family and I'd like to live in a lovely big house, with a massive driveway and gates and loads of kids.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very close to my family. Not like these big stars - not mentioning any names - who lose the plot and don't know who they are.
- Pasta
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I'm Italian, but my family isn't stereotypical. I mean, I only have one sister and we don't yell or throw pasta at each other. My mother doesn't even have a secret spaghetti sauce recipe.
- Nov 07, 2020
It is rewarding beyond words to rescue a dog from the shelter and have that dog become part of your family.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I speak about family and adoption because it 100% changed my life and who I am. It definitely played a very large role into just learning how to be grateful for what you have and being fulfilled in a way that a lot of adopted kids don't feel.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of paranormal activity in my family. Whether it is more than most other families is hard to say, but we seem to have more than most.
- Best Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020