- Favorite Thing
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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
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family is my foundation. My sisters are awesome; they probably taught me everything I ever need to know about girls.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I refused to learn English for two years when we moved to London, hoping to send my family back home. It was tough, but at the same time, it has given me a sense of displacement that actually really suits the life that I'm living now.
- Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I just really understand what it is to feel like you don't fit in, within your society, within your world, within your family, within whatever. I've always felt like an odd duck so I really understood that.
- Peas
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Black Eyed Peas is a family.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
In every Filipino family, the children always want to help the parents… that was my goal.
- Nov 07, 2020
Coming from the Philippines, my whole goal was to support my family and have a better living situation.
- Patriotism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world, so the idea of patriotism is not very strong in me. My country is the country of Chekhov, Beethoven, Velasquez - writers I like, painters and artists I admire.
- Better Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have decided not to run for the U.S. Senate and instead continue my efforts to make California a better place to live, work, and raise a family. We have come a long way, but our work is not done, and neither am I.
- Service
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- Nov 07, 2020
My kids and I are spending time together. And we're enjoying that. Family is important; I was gone a lot in the 20 years of public service.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that my heart and my family are here in California, not in Washington, D.C.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in family values, and I believe that we all ought to be able to have a family and marry if you want to. I don't think the government should be in that business of denying people the fundamental right to marry.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: 'Why not try writing a novel?' partly out of youthful arrogance and partly because there had been a long line of writers in my mother's family.
- Extended
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because we had no other relatives living in the U.K., me, my parents and my siblings continuously journeyed abroad to bond with our extended family.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!
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- Nov 07, 2020