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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
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My neighborhood was normal. I had a neighborhood where everyone knew everyone. Typical American upbringing. Sometimes we got into trouble, but everyone watched after each other, so if my parents didn't see me making trouble, another family would tell them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to go home to Missouri every couple of months. I do that because I like my family, of course, but my mom doesn't know who Carine Roitfeld is. And as much as that horrifies me, it's a good way to keep your feet on the ground.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had all these smiley family pictures all over the walls of my house, but I always found those pictures to be odd because we weren't smiling all the time. I don't want to paint the picture of a total dysfunctional house, but there were a lot of arguments in that house. A lot of pain.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really collect anything. I grew up in a family that collected things, and then they'd get sick, and people die, and then they have their basements full of stuff that goes from one box to the next, so I try not to get sentimental with stuff. I just try to collect memories; I guess that would be it.
- Construction
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would venture to guess that if I was a construction worker... who requested a transfer to another department for the betterment of his family, I would be commended for it. But because it's sports, there's just so much passion added to it.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Jersey City State College to please a family member. I wasn't prepared for school. To say I failed out is putting it nicely.
- Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020