- People
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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
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm inspired by my family's legacy of public service. It's something that I'm very proud of.
- Chicago
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
At my school, when kids went into the army at 16, they didn't do it in a gung-ho, Tom Cruise, 'Born on the Fourth of July' way. They were generally - and I hope this doesn't offend them - the more vulnerable members of the class. They enlisted seeking family, and they didn't always find it.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm totally grateful for the fans my family has and I have; they gave me a lot of support when I was in treatment. But it was just odd, you know? It's stressful. Just the whole fact of being someone in the public eye.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a little, little kid, my family got a new washing machine, and they had a big box that was left over. So I cut a big hole in the box, and I made it like a giant TV set. I brought it into the living room, and I did the news and the weather for my family.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War.
- Graduates
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have a student who graduates from college and they don't have a job, they are now able to stay on their family health plan.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find it slightly uncomfortable to see my face on a bus or a poster. I like just being known by my friends and family.
- Monkey
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- Nov 07, 2020
In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in an acting family. I was heavily discouraged from doing it myself when I was young, which is the only responsible route to take with any child, because it's not necessarily the easiest of lives.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can follow your favorite company or organization. You can also mix that in with your family and your social network and talk about all these interests in real time. That's the value, not the brand 'Twitter.' Twitter just provides the venue for it.
- Inclined
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- Nov 07, 2020