- Grow
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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
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Hindu marriage may be described as the union of two families. In this union, there is no room for petty ambitions and personal ego-trips. What is involved is love for the entire family that one is marrying into.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody, no family, is above the law.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was practically born in Cameroon; my family moved there when I was two weeks old.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing that's likely: How you look as you age is hereditary. Some of my family members, for example, look younger than their real age. And people have mistaken me for 30, even 25.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite season was when I wrote every morning for three or four hours, then I would go and teach my classes at school, come home to my family and hang out with them, have dinner, and then, after everyone was tucked in, I would prepare for my classes the next day.
- Silence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know you are going to be embarrassed. We're all embarrassed by it, but to hide the embarrassment... silence has never protected women or helped them. We need to talk about it more with our, you know - whoever - our friends, our family.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came from a practical family. The idea of being a writer seemed impossible to me.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if it's unique, but I know many Korean American people of my generation who want to know about their grandparents' lives in Korea, but their family members won't tell them because it's too painful. But my grandmother is just a natural storyteller, and she very openly spoke about really difficult times in her life.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, it was really difficult for me to get acting jobs, because you're a kid and you don't fit in the typical family.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't hide my feelings, but when it comes to illness, I guess I don't panic. My father was the same way. I'm the provider for the family and the caretaker. If I panic, who is anybody going to run to?
- Gaming
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- Nov 07, 2020