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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
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened my wife and family away to Roanoke about 35 miles nearer in among the inhabitants, which I was informed of by an old man I met near the place.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
To give you an idea about how old I'm getting, we had some family living in Texas for a while, and we went to the Texas museum at the University of Texas in Austin, and they had this whole Texas Instruments section, and my Speak & Spell was an exhibit in the museum.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.
- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up singing in church. My family owned funeral homes so I would sing for the occasional funeral, as well.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my first public performances was singing hymns at a funeral for a friend of our family.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a part of the 'Hamilton' family has been the most thrilling and rewarding experience of my career.
- Brady
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Brady Bunch is a live action modern fairytale of family. In this context it's less odd that it's lasted for over thirty years; and why it may last in some respects as long as Mother Goose!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still enjoy what I'm doing, which is building businesses. I don't play golf. I don't have any particular passion apart from my business and my family, and that gives me all the pleasure that I want.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been able to work as an actor and support my family and did great jobs, and more often than not, I got to turn down jobs that I didn't really want to do for various reasons or refuse to work with people I didn't like - and there are quite a few.
- Gathered
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- Nov 07, 2020
We just weren't a family that gathered around the TV. I grew up in a town where everyone was outside all the time. I was mostly in Connecticut; I spent a lot of time in Tennessee in the summers, but I was in Stamford, Connecticut.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose that one of the reasons I wrote 'In Contempt' was because of the money. After the trial I came to realize that there were things that I needed to do if I was to protect myself and my family, so there were some selfish reasons for it.
- Grandchildren
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am surrounded by my family, my beloved grandchildren, and my pack of dogs.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have lived with extraordinary women, whether it was my grandmother, my mother. My father passed away when I was 16... I was witness to a woman who single handedly brought up the entire family and managed to do everything... She was an extraordinary role model for me.
- Debilitating
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father passed away after three years of debilitating disease, which transformed a very strong and bright man into a real wreck. And that is hard. You have to get out of that stronger, if you can, which I was lucky to be able to. I was the eldest of the family, and I had to support my mother and help my brothers.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I bought a house in England in 1990, shortly after my father died, hoping to come home to England and spend time with my family.
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- Nov 07, 2020