- Big Family
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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
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of me looks forward to a time when I have a family and a partner and I take less of my nourishment from social occasions. Having a little unit around me will make my working life easier, because it is quite lonely otherwise.
- Fiance
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Holiday drinking in my family happens about as often as Sarah Palin is spotted reading the 'New York Times.' Neither of my parents are big drinkers, probably because they each had a parent that was.
- Forgive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know if I would ever reconcile with my family, and I needed to believe that I could forgive, regardless.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent my summers bottling peaches and my winters rotating supplies. When the World of Men failed, my family would continue on, unaffected.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family always spent the warm months bottling fruit for storage, which Dad said we'd need in the Days of Abomination.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents would say to me, 'You can teach yourself anything better than someone else can teach it to you.' That was the whole ethos of my family.
- Busy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a very good family and my upbringing was good, everyone knows that.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020