- 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
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am running for the U.S. Senate so that your kids and mine can continue to live in the kind of country that gave my family the blessings of liberty and freedom that only America offers.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am just a normal person, and it is normal to have quality time with my family.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me and my family all like Shanghai, and I'm slowly getting used to the city and the atmosphere.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do feel I'm responsible to carrying on the music. That's what I was charged with as a kid. When I was a little girl, I was told, 'When we are gone' - when you're a kid, you never think they'll ever be gone - 'you have to keep the music alive, the Carter Family songs, and add your own songs.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always had wanderlust to try and do different things, but I always return to the music of the Carter family.
- Rules
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s into pop songs.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eccentricity has never been discouraged in our family.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I've not known what to do, I've always gone back to the Carter Family because there was nothing like singing with my aunts and my mom to my grandma.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020