- Mind
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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
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the very beginning we were a real tight family but now it's different. You know, toward the end, we had separate limos, stuff like that. It's hard to get six giant egos in the same place.
- Devote
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come personally from a broken family, divorced very early in my childhood, a family with its own share of troubles, so I think that was very influential in both me believing that someday I would consistently devote myself to my own family that I created, but I think it also really affects my view of the world.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
While this has been a private part of my family's life, it is now clear a media story will soon emerge. My father tragically ended his life while battling terminal cancer in 1979.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the family.
- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020
My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family.
- Nov 07, 2020
Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
My goal is for 'The Bill Engvall Show' to be a show the networks look at and say, 'Ooh, maybe we should get back to the family sitcom.'
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know as well as I do that the family sitcom was the stalwart of TV for God knows how many decades.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Healthy marriages are the ones between a man and a woman because they can have a healthy family, and they can raise children in a way that's best for their future, not only socially but psychologically, economically, from a health perspective.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often say that I inherited the family's recessive gene for adult-onset political activism.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a very athletic family. But I didn't have the typical Jewish sports heroes. I mean, like lots of Jewish kids I admired Sandy Koufax. But I didn't look up to him as the one person who gave me the desire to push on and succeed. My brothers did that for me.
- Every Single Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do every single thing you can to protect yourself, your family, and your country.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020