- My Life
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived on a farm with cows, and I lived in the city with rats. My family stayed in Colorado for a while, then went from Los Angeles to Arizona. People would ask me where I'm from, and I would have to say, 'I don't have a clear answer for you.'
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only things that are really permanent are love, family, friendship, and that is a lesson. At the end of the day, that's really what it boils down to. The rest of it is just stuff.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm so happy with my family, my career and my friends, and I'd like for them to be here forever, so I guess loss is what scares me the most.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like in the NFL, they preach loyalty and family and they have none for you. As a player, you see it's not a family during negotiations, how it becomes them versus me or me versus them. That's part of the NFL I believe the fans don't see.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my parents' divided attention.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own mother, my sister and nearly all the women in my family had full-time jobs as mothers. They were wonderful at it. They drove their children back and forth to soccer, skating lessons, piano lessons, private schools, but I sensed, even in my own mother, a kind of distant dissatisfaction.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
South Africa is a whole other world. I went to grade school there and high school in Johannesburg, and before that, my family lived in Kenya in Nairobi where my brother was actually born, and my sister was born in Capetown. I spent the first 10 years of my life in South Africa.
- Nov 07, 2020
And I think that that emphasis on keeping a family together, alike, I think it's important.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family, my mom in particular, got so much love and appreciation from the audience. As a consequence, I have also got some of that love. I now have to work doubly hard to prove that I deserve it, on my own, also.
- Hard Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think being a guest star on an ongoing TV show can be a nightmare, and I've done it a lot. You're walking into this family who's very comfortable where they are, and you have to jump on the train and be artificially comfortable. That's a very hard thing to do.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I've heard it play at weddings. I've heard it in graduation parties. It's a big idea and big song.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like I never would have been a success and gotten published without my family.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have people I love and trust on my team. And I'm lucky my family is incredibly talented in a variety of ways.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are a very close family, and I love them very much, but I'm definitely the odd one out. I live a completely different kind of life style. I always was different. I felt like a fish out of water; I really never knew who I was.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do mostly British projects, and for family reasons and life reasons Britain's my home, where I have a lovely garden.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
The gym of life has a free membership. Build powerful life-muscles through family gatherings from hell. Do you really want to be a happy, peaceful blob?
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020