- Everybody
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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
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not many people remember this, but in the first 'Death Wish' film, Charles Bronson doesn't actually go after the people that hurt his family: he just goes after every punk. He just blows them all away.
- Lunch
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're a really close family. And actually, we see each other and speak on the phone all the time... the odd Sunday lunch, or pop in for coffee or something like that.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother and father have been fantastic help and a huge support for me. Like any other family, though, we have our moments, living and working together.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
For Mum and Dad... work and home is family, so work is family and home is family. We grew up with that.
- Family And Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family and friends and career are very important to me, but running allows me to be a better friend, a better family member, and makes me better at my career.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a family that does not believe in art to this day. They think art is vanity.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.
- Singing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum was a big fan of E.L.O. and Elvis Costello. She used to play that, consistently, all the time when we were kids. And my dad, he would claim to be a singer... You know, he loves singing, and he used to sing a lot when he was a kid and at parties and stuff like that. So I come from a very party-musical family.
- Fine Arts
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and Symphony Hall and going to the Common, walking around. My whole family at different times lived and worked in Boston.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I don't need the money, I don't work. I'm going to spend time with my family and friends, and I'm going to travel and read and listen to music and try to learn a little bit more about how to be a human being, as opposed to learning how to be somebody else.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.
- Adverse
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- Nov 07, 2020
The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with no adverse effect on children from strong educational backgrounds.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020