- 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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Win or lose, I always like to get back to my friends and family. They keep me grounded. When I'm home with my friends, I'm always the same Gabriel. I'm no better or worse in their eyes because of my results. It's good to be with your true friends. It always reminds me of where I'm from and who I am.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'Ms. Marvel' mantle has passed to 'Kamala Khan,' a high school student from Jersey City who struggles to reconcile being an American teenager with the conservative customs of her Pakistani Muslim family.
- Butterfly
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Butterfly Mosque' came out of the emails I wrote to family and friends back home after moving to Egypt.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's definitely important to have your mom and family there to back you up and cheering from the stands. You'd love them to come to every big dance and every big game, but sometimes that's not possible.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to watch 'Coming to America' every day after school. I have full-on long-running inside jokes with friends and family about different scenes in that movie alone. Also, my brother and I loved 'The Golden Child,' so, yeah: I was a huge fan of Eddie Murphy growing up.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.
- Alone
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's that Dungeon Family ethos: being able to reinvent yourself, stand out and stand alone. Having your own character and having your own image, no matter what they say about you. I want to show my versatility and how diverse I am, how I approach the track, my rhythm, my melodies. It's something different.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the best thing about being with an indie label, it feels like a family. If it's a major label, they put so much pressure on every single.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020