- Movement
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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
- Grow Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do think culture is an argument, and that was part of the way I was brought up. People at a social occasion in Ireland will start shouting and arguing. When the Yeats family lived in Bedford Park, they had to go round to the neighbours to say, 'You might think we are fighting, but this is the way we talk to each other.'
- Technology
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything has changed in recent decades - the economy, technology, cultural attitudes, the demographics of the workforce, the role of women in society and the structure of the American family. It's about time our laws caught up. We watch 'Modern Family' on television, but we're still living by 'Leave It To Beaver' rules.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Full-time workers earning the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 only earn about $14,500 a year in wages - below the poverty line for a family of two. That's unacceptable.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first big one-person show was basically a combination of my family, me during puberty, embarrassing newspaper articles that were written about me in high school, my first modeling photos, and terrible things that people said about me on the Internet.
- Try
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of times, you try and please your biological family, and you can't please them.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I served my country; I did that. I was in the C.I.A., and I served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and I love this country with every part of my body, and I was willing to risk my body and my family for it. But I wake up in a country I don't understand anymore.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't see myself racing at 50 years old. I enjoy racing, and that has been my whole life. But one day I will take time to look at other things. I know that everything has an end date, even life, and I also have a family and there are other things to enjoy than trying to be first into the corner and fastest out.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at the literature of the 19th century, you get things like Kafka and Dostoevsky, who basically write about feeling bored and alienated. That's because we lost contact with the important things in life like work that you enjoy, or the garden, nature, your family and friends.
- Nov 07, 2020
The Transportation Empowerment Act paves the way for better roads, easier commutes, and more family time.
- Mom And Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music was around in my family in two ways. My mother would occasionally sing to me, but I was mostly stimulated by the classical music my father had left behind. I had an ear for music, I suppose, so that's what began my interest in music.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like millions of others, I have been plagued by the devastating effects of cancer hitting not one, but multiple members of my family.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020