- 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
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the summer months of my high-school years, I befriended Dr. Robert Kough, a physician who cared for members of my family. Although he was practicing general medicine in a rural community when I met him, he was well equipped to arouse in me an interest not only in the life of a physician but in the fundaments of human biology.
- Depending
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Patterson, New Jersey, and raised pretty much all around the country. My family tended to move from place to place following economic prospects and jobs and looking for new opportunities, so we changed schools, colleges, grade schools, high schools every 6 months to a year - depending on the breaks.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had given myself a sort of early retirement when I left the scene in 1985. All of the people in my family worked until they dropped, including my father. I decided to take a little time to enjoy life. I traveled, built my dream house, rescued a few dogs. My return to music, and acting, was deliberate, part of my musical arc.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're graduating from high school, and you come from a lower income family, you're effectively given two options. One is get a four-year college degree; two is work at a low-wage job, potentially for the rest of your life. We've got to do better on that front. We have to provide more options.
- Nov 07, 2020
Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that my father set out on his own to build Hyatt - a business the family was not in and a business he was learning about as he was building it - is instructive.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how much wealth anybody has, family problems are about the same across the board.
- Film Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl's grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That's my real dream.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Diabetes is a disease that's had a deep impact on my family. My little brother has had type 1 diabetes since he was a baby and I have spent time learning about the disease and trying to bring attention to it so that one day soon we will reach a cure.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, family is first.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020