- Happiness
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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
- Stretching
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, and I mean this sincerely, I was raised humbly. We were a lower middle income family and a household that was scrimping by at times. We were watching the dollar, stretching the dollar, and coupons. It was all those things.
- Found
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found out I was pregnant seven days after my wedding. I was on honeymoon with my family.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to safeguard the value of lunch. For me, it is sacred. My family and I always have lunch and dinner together. And we always sit down. Food does not taste the same if you are standing up!
- Patriotism
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I've had hard times in my life, the one thing about being in TV is that it's positive. I withdrew to 'Cheers,' it was familiar in that it was family. It had a kind of realistic positiveness to it.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.
- Decorate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to be an actor, but I always loved design, and growing up in New Orleans there was such great style, great architecture. I would decorate my little apartment in New York over and over again, because it only had a couple of rooms. And I did it for friends and family on the side just for fun.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family's business was actually an amusement park in New Orleans. My grandfather had started that, and my grandmother was a dance maven in New Orleans. It was just the theatricality and the Mardi Gras and the pageantry that I fell in love with at an early age.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a costume closet at home. My family will put on a costume for any excuse.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've talked through the fact that our family will be attacked. Our family will be dragged through the mud. My businesses that I've helped build and create will be attacked and dragged through the mud. That's politics. I don't spend a lot of time worrying about it or thinking about it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, my dad wasn't a photographer or filmmaker by profession, but on Sundays, he would take pictures of me and my family or his pals horseback riding, and it was a means of communication and affection, a means of not being so dysfunctional with each other.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody has heard that family dinner is great for kids. But unfortunately, it doesn't work in many of our lives.
- Alone
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increase the odds that your family will thrive for many generations to come.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps.
- Darkness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Celebrate your family's bleakest moments and how your relatives overcame them. In doing so, you will encounter darkness, but you'll give your children the confidence that they, too, shall overcome.
- Nov 07, 2020