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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
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone who's fake is someone who acts one way around their family and their close friends, but once they get out in the public, they're this whole different person.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very lucky with my family. They've always been very encouraging, and they never thought that anything would hold me back. I'm very fortunate to have had that.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we lived in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, my sister and I did a local play. My whole family got involved. My mom did the makeup. My sister and I were being homeschooled, and my parents wanted us to be socialized. We had a lot of fun with the other kids hanging out backstage.
- Insult
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know how only you can insult your own family? That's how I feel about Florida.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the World Cup, I carried my mum's Caribbean sauce around with me. She makes her own, and I brought it to Brazil - I needed to have it there. We're very down-to-earth; it's the nature of my family. We came from nothing.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family prayed a lot, but we didn't really go to church. On Sunday, my mum and dad used to always tell me to read the Bible. That was important for me growing up, and I still do that every morning. It's something that is part of my routine, and I do it every day, whether it's a normal game or a big one.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really like to pay attention too much to what is being said about me, only because the people closest to me - my parents, family, and friends - know me best. So I feel like their opinions mean more to me than anyone else's.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family supported me. I wasn't hot-housed at all as a young child; I didn't go to any kind of gifted school. They didn't exist in the very poor parts of England when I grew up in the 1980s. I had a great time to learn, had access to libraries and teachers who were patient and enthusiastic when I showed ability in some subjects.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was thinking of my father's family. I can find their graves, but not that much about them. They didn't do anything notable enough to be in the records of newspapers.
- Family Structure
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- Nov 07, 2020
The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The richest inheritance any child can have is a stable, loving, disciplined family life.
- Nov 07, 2020