- Me
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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
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know I'm British. I haven't spent much time in the U.K., but my parents are British, my family heritage is British, so if I wasn't British, what would I be? I am British.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had never gone to college. I was not from a politically connected family. I had no money of my own. Who is going to do business with you?
- Grass
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cut grass, I did yard work, I did roofing, I cleaned basements to take care of my family.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel that I was chosen to do it. It's taken me all over the world and given me opportunities to take care of my family and give me experiences that I would not have had. I think about those things and what I owe to the game.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're an athlete in this game, you have to protect your own interests, and you have to protect your body and your family.
- Go Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born into a middle class family in New Jersey. My dad came home from serving in the Army after having lost his father, worked in the Breyers ice cream plant in Newark, New Jersey. Was the first person to graduate from college.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad is in the music business in Nashville. I was the third child born in my family, and there are three notes in a chord, so that's how they came up with my name.
- Chord
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- Nov 07, 2020
My real name is Chord Overstreet. I actually got my name because my dad is in the music business as a songwriter. I was the third one in my family born, and there are three notes in a chord, so that's how they came up with my name.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every successful artist comes from a family - parents or siblings or both - who, although equally gifted, chose not to pursue the treacherous and difficult path of the artist.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there the Friday before Labor Day weekend.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
People seem to read so much more nonfiction than fiction, and so it always gives me great pleasure to introduce a friend or family member to a novel I believe they'll cherish but might not otherwise have thought to pick up and read.
- Every Sunday
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- Nov 07, 2020
The host of 'Face The Nation,' Bob Schieffer, was an important figure in my childhood years. Every Sunday in the fall, he occupied my family's time after church and before the NFL pregame shows.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020