- Come
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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
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only black folks in town when I was growing up were me and my cousins and one other family.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Around 1969, my family had just bought a house in a lower-middle-class white neighborhood two blocks away from school. Then, all of a sudden, all the white people left the neighborhood and the school.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Family is funny, and so it was not an unnatural thing for me, growing up, not to know anything about my dad or about the Vance side of our family.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've tried very hard to stay grounded with my family, my ol' buddies, nature, music, and creativity.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just grateful. I'm grateful for my family, my wife, and our health. I'm grateful to be in a band of brothers that I love so, so, so much. I'm grateful that this magical combination of dudes makes music that people like and moves them.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
God Bless my mother and father for all the hard work they've done for our family.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live a life of creating, sharing music with wonderful musicians that I love like family, and spreading a message through music that life is yours to live wide open, and do it your way with love.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I basically am the only musician in my family. My aunt plays a little piano, but that's about it. My dad's mother painted and was actually good at it. I do not come from a long line of musicians, though.
- Nov 07, 2020
I surround myself with family. I have got the most incredible wife in the world and unbelievable kids.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was just a twenty-something, I came to Newark, and I found a connection to the city in a spiritual way. I found a connection here and people here that reminded me so much of my roots and my own family.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our nation was not founded because we all looked alike, or prayed alike, or descended from the same family tree. But our founders, in their genius, in this, the oldest constitutional democracy, put forth on this earth the idea that all are created equal; that we all have inalienable rights.
- Cry
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- Nov 07, 2020