- Me
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to watch my father play the guitar and sing when I was a little boy. By the time I was 11, I knew what I wanted to do. My father really couldn't afford to spend $12 for a guitar for me, but he did. It was like an ordinary family spending $500 for a kid's gift.
- Beautiful Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had an ambition to be somebody since I was 13 years old because I wanted to help my family. I wanted to hurry and grow up so I could make enough money to buy my father a big car and my mother a beautiful home with an electric washing machine and all those things she used to see in the newspapers.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've got so many different cultural groups in my family that I've had to learn to accommodate them in different ways. My father speaks different to my mum. My mum speaks different to my grandmother. Everybody speaks different, so you find you start tweaking your language to be more accessible to people.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in South Africa during apartheid, a system of laws that made it illegal for people to mix in South Africa. And this was obviously awkward because I grew up in a mixed family. My mother's a black woman, South African Xhosa woman... and my father's Swiss, from Switzerland.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the first in my family to board an airplane. I was the first in my family to get kicked off an airplane.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have a family. I'd like to have one. I just haven't somehow gotten around to it yet.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.
- Family History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India.
- Technology
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like technology and all that. I'm a farm boy. I would rather live in that time when you had to provide for your family. I don't know. I'm a country kid, so I don't like modern technology.
- Did
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always supported Liverpool. My whole family did!
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Shimon Peres has embodied a commitment to the mutual values shared by the United States and Israel - values that include the preservation of life, faith, family and freedom.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm around my kids every day. I'm regular. We're a regular family. My wife cooks, she washes clothes, I read books, I pump my own gas, I get my own hair cut.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
A stand-up's job is to hold the mirror up to society and to look at what we're afraid of. That's why we had shows like 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons.' We made fun of ourselves then.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family absolutely comes first, and I don't mean that in a Pollyanna way. It's the focus of my life because it's what makes me happy.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When something's got to give, family always wins. I couldn't live with myself if it was the other way.
- Kansas
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- Nov 07, 2020