- Live Life
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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
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, William Beebe was my hero, and I used to read about him going down in the bathysphere, and I wanted to do that too. And I told my family, I said, 'I'd like to go down and be like William Beebe,' and they said, 'Well, maybe you can take up typing and get to be the secretary of William Beebe or somebody like him.'
- Good Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're in a big family you have to hustle all the time. But I think that's a good quality to instill in your children, for whatever they have to get.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my mother and father fell in love, my mother's family would never accept it.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up with three kids in the family, and it's definitely a little extra tricky having that third kid.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the first actress in the family, and I am still the only actress in the family. I shouldn't be saying it, but it slipped out!
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe God takes the things in our lives - family, background, education - and uses them as part of his calling. It might not be to become a pastor. But I don't think God wastes anything.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and my mother's family had fled the czars of Russia before that.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
9/11 revealed that those about to die do not seem afraid or plead for forgiveness for their sins, if they think about them at all. They all have one thing in mind - those they love - and they all do the same thing: They call them up - spouses, family or friends - to tell them they love them.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Facebook may not only propagate cyber-loneliness but exacerbate the pain of loss that estranged family members feel when they hear only indirectly, through a third-party posting, news of a child or parent with whom they have not spoken in years.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Catholicism actually resembles a family that survives because even as it aspires to holiness, it understands and can live with sin and imperfection.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Kennedys were very organized. Dinner was always served at 7:15, and if you were a minute late, it really wasn't worth it. In my family, you never knew when dinner was going to be. It could be at 7, or it could be at 10.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.
- Nov 07, 2020
My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020