- Observant
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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.
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- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family believed I could do no wrong. That's probably why I have utter confidence in myself even when I shouldn't have.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my father passed away, I learned to be unattached to physical things. At a very young age, I was able to roam the world and be emotionally connected but physically disconnected. I'll get homesick in that I miss my mom. My grounding rock is her and my family.
- Speak
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- Nov 07, 2020
I speak Italian and a little bit of French. I moved to Trento, Italy, when I was around 10 to learn Italian. I have family there. I'm trying to restart my French. And then I want to get into Mandarin.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that New York liberated me in the sense that I moved here when I was 18, so it was a fresh perspective on life. I had been living in L.A. my whole life and I had never lived anywhere else, so being away from family and really making a name for myself was huge for me.
- Nov 07, 2020
After I got all the love and support from my family then I knew I could go out and conquer the world, I guess.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you depict one home and the drama moving around one family, people love it because the characters become identifiable.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
It gets lonely. I miss my family on stage. This might change one day. I'm certainly not going to say I'm not going to work with them again.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never far from my thoughts are memories of being a little girl in Queens, N.Y., our family of five crowded in a small one-bedroom apartment, struggling to learn English and survive a new life in a new country, America. We humbly and gratefully still recall the kindnesses shown by strangers and neighbors who became new friends.
- Healthy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a vegetarian, but my family isn't. If I can keep everything in my house healthy, I don't have to worry as much when I eat out.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can make the family life and the music work together that's wonderful. If you can make it work.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel that everyone has something different that moves them or that appeals to them. Maybe something in your family or maybe something in your life that happened that really pushes you for a specific cause - as long as there is something that you're doing.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter what you're doing. I feel that everyone has something different that moves them or that appeals to them. Maybe something in your family or maybe something in your life that happened that really pushes you for a specific cause - as long as there is something that you're doing.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grammar school caught on to the fact that the reason I was falling asleep in class was that I was doing working men's clubs till 10 or 11 at nights. My mother was told I shouldn't do it anymore. Of course, I was bringing in money to the family, so nobody liked hearing that.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020