- 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
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised in a family where cinema was a way of life. It was not only about making films, it was relationship, passion, love, everything at the same time.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I hit 16, I got a scooter to ride to school. It was bright pink, and I saw on the ownership papers that Jonathan Ross once owned it. My friends slated me for it because of the colour, but it was cool. My father used to ride, and my mother's boyfriend has a bike, so we're a bit of a biker family.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Loyalty to the family must be merged into loyalty to the community, loyalty to the community into loyalty to the nation, and loyalty to the nation into loyalty to mankind. The citizen of the future must be a citizen of the world.
- Read
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a family of bankers and lawyers, and they joked that they can't believe I'm the one that gets to go to the White House.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My feeling is that my body and all my things inside me - when I move, when I do everything - are Brazilian because my family is Brazilian, and my mother language is Brazilian Portuguese. But all the thinking in my life, all the treatment with people, I think I'm more from Spain. That's how I grew up.
- World
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 20 or 21, I didn't... I won't say care about anything, but you're like in your own world - you made something that you always wanted to do, and then you kind of think only about your family and yourself.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are going to be living quite soon for 100 years. Our idea of how a family works no longer applies. It's no good saying you're going to have children for 15 years and then you're going to retire and have hobbies, because you've got 40 more years to go after 60 and you're in good health until 90 or something.
- Class Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020