- Mother
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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
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to break with my family. I wasn't about to make waves. But I had this feeling I wanted to do something that I liked to do. Acting's what I liked to do most. There must have been a moment when I felt, 'Oh, my God, I like this and what am I going to do about it?'
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spend so much of my time working away, but I love being here. My family is in Somerset, and this is where my heart is.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded by one Spirit. We are all baptized into one Spirit so as to become, says the apostle, on body.
- Able
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- Nov 07, 2020
Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.
- Champion
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- Nov 07, 2020
We Liberal Democrats don't believe we should use the tax structure to champion just one type of family.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
New Labour needs to realise that family life and the way we raise our children are private matters.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things my family taught me - I think very important in religion and science - is that you must be ready to stand up for what you think. Decide what you really think is best, and stick with it.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
- Electricity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Charles Wyly was born Oct 13, 1933, in Lake Providence, La., and for a period lived with his family in a shack without electricity or plumbing.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Times were poor. I wore hand-me-downs. And because the kids just older than me in the family were girls, sometimes I had to wear my sisters' hand-me-downs.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020