- People
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to live my life like my father lives his. He always takes care of everyone else first. He won't even start eating until he's sure everyone else in the family has started eating. Another thing: My dad never judges me by whether I win or lose.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
A family's desire to be able to keep its health insurance when changing jobs or geography (a problem that Obamacare doesn't make any better, by the way) is perfectly reasonable.
- Royal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Matt Damon's anti-fracking diatribe was funded by the royal family of the United Arab Emirates.
- First Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conservatives are routinely pilloried on television. A&E likely greenlit 'Duck Dynasty' in the first place because executives believed Americans would laugh at the redneck antics of the self-described 'white trash' family.
- Grocery Shopping
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy.
- Greatest Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom is proud of me. I just want to keep working hard so one day I can help my family. I am going to get a big house one day, and we all can stay in it and eat.
- Complicated
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know that it exists, the perfect family. It's always complicated.
- Clowning
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was always clowning around. It was a huge influence on me. In my family, everything is turned into a joke.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I very much wanted the perfect nuclear family, and I came from the perfect nuclear family, but like so many people, that isn't the way things have worked out.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My enthusiasm for L.A. stems from my father, who was a lecturer in American literature at the University of Birmingham. Through his work, our family did several house swaps with L.A. families. It was a dreadfully daring thing to do in the early 1980s; there was no Internet, so you had no idea of what you were getting into.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020