- 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
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's almost embarrassing how much support I have. I mean, I always tell people I feel like I'm perfectly set up to have cancer. I have great health insurance, I have a savings account. I have work lined up. I have friends and family. I have the best doctors I can get.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, the family that I had and the love I had from my two parents allowed me to go ahead and be more aggressive, to search and to take risks knowing that, if I failed, I could always come home to a family of love and support.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart.
- Nov 07, 2020
My mom was an opera singer, and she gave up her career to raise a family. But she also taught my sisters how to sing.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was on 'One Life to Live,' I always wanted to delve into my character, Layla, to find out why she was the black sheep of the family. I so wanted to have some edge. I have no idea why there was a reluctance to do that or why we so rarely see it.
- Best Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the best part in going to the movies is you feel something and you relate whether it's to family struggles or dimming your light for someone. I would say to never dim your light and to really, truly follow your dreams.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're single, you're very independent. Very independent women raised me. We didn't have a lot of male figures as the head of our household, so I got, and took on, a lot of that strong spirit from the matriarchs in my family.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
A long time ago, when I was married, in the beginning it was bliss. I eloped after one month, and I married for security. I thought, 'I finally met a man who loves God and comes from a great family. I'm working, I love God, and I'm out here in California by myself, and I've met this great man.' So, I said yes. And we eloped.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people who I enjoy cooking for the most are my family.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been called the black sheep. Everybody in my family had something weird about them, like, 'What's wrong with you?!' We all were black sheep.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020