- Never
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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
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad is a big Outlaw country guy - Johnny Cash, Johnny Horton, Waylon, Willie. He loves Elvis and turned me onto Elvis. He was always playing me stuff. He and I would sing and entertain the family. We'd have a little skit on Thanksgiving or whatever.
- Financial Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm blessed enough to have financial freedom in this world, my family is the ones I owe thanks to first.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents have both done some music stuff. My family was very artist-friendly, so that was encouraging.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had no money. My family was in Southie; I was in affluent Brookline. I don't know if it's my personality or the circumstance, but it all kind of led to this feeling of being an observer on the outside.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The power of the 'Muppets,' and the popularity of these characters, is so iconic in people's lives that I had to distance myself from publicly. Not privately... Privately, hell, I'm with them for life, and I love these people. They're my second family.
- Daily Lives
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our extended family is an integral part of our daily lives and Connie and I welcome you with open arms.
- Flowery
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- Nov 07, 2020
God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a football family which has really helped.
- Family Unit
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to build a family very strongly because I lost my family when I was 15, 14, and I missed the family unit very much.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To imagine a better life for yourself and your family and to leave behind all that is familiar requires a special kind of courage.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family are big philanthropists, but not at putting big money into sport. Today sport is professional. It has to support itself or it won't exist. It cannot depend on a few wealthy people making donations.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.
- Components
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, conservatives have succeeded by adhering to a platform that rests firmly on three legs: smaller government, faith and family, and a strong national defense. These three legs do not merely represent a political coalition; they are three necessary components of a strong and secure America.
- Bad Guys
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- Nov 07, 2020