- 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
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing's worse than telling your family you got a pilot, hearing the pilot got picked up, and then finding out it's not in the fall lineup.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nobody that's ever going to fill Ted Kennedy's shoes, and that's a tall order for somebody in the family to try to live up to.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody trusted Cronkite because he reminded them of their favorite uncle or trusted family physician. Being square in the age of the Beatles made Cronkite retro cool.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I inherited the old family turkey farm, and I'm turning it into a fun place to go for my kids.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scotland and England may sometimes be rivals, but by geography, we are also neighbours. By history, allies. By economics, partners. And by fate and fortune, comrades, friends and family.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I look back on the day I signed my professional contract in 1973, I've never gone to sleep wondering if I could pay the bills or take care of my family. That's what basketball has done for me. It's given me the greatest of thrills from high school to college to the Olympics to coaching to broadcasting.
- Gatherings
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- Nov 07, 2020
Father's Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother's death. Maybe it's me, because I am a wimp. We would get together, but there was someone missing!
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lost my mother, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and we had to relocate my dad after 58 years in the family home. That was tough.
- Tell
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- Nov 07, 2020