- Friends
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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
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a private guy, and at the end of the day, I only really do care about my family. That's the most important thing: my way of life, my family. Whoever is in front of that is going to get hurt.
- Grasping
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't treat my family any differently because they're on television. I've always had a problem grasping fame. I don't think I understand fame, and I don't think I ever will. I think that anybody who thinks that they understand fame, they're doing it for the wrong reasons.
- Nov 07, 2020
Be yourself. And if you're not accepted by your family, there will be people who will accept you.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have spent a very long time in Cate's shadow - she casts a pretty big one. I have always had the support of my family and coach, and they have always stressed we are completely different people and will achieve things in our own time. They stressed I would get my moment. I just had to be patient.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
I normally fly under the radar, and I'm normally not the best in my family, even though I'm sort of second or third best in the world.
- Grandfather
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up knowing my grandfather had served our country for decades in the Navy, buried in his whites in Arlington; I have family members who are veterans.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll never forget coming home after covering Sandy Hook. Seeing the faces of family members. The firefighters who could never unsee the unthinkable. Those tiny caskets. I came home, sat in my dark apartment because I didn't even bother to turn the lights on, and wept.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've covered a lot of ground geographically and emotionally and for years I lost my connection with my family. But the best comfort you can have, whether you are on the phone or sitting there in the living room with them, is with your parents, and to me family has always meant protection. When you smile you get a smile back, unconditionally.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
GamerGate has had an almost indescribable toll on my family.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My son has two loving parents and an extended family, whether it's cousins or stepmothers or boyfriends. My son is surrounded by love.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020