- Life
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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
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
- Blood
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- Nov 07, 2020
For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
- Nov 07, 2020
My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
You may not know your complete family history, but the reality is everyone has something, and as you get older, you start to worry about these things more. Health is not sort of like a 6-month project. Health is a lifetime accumulation of behaviors.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't read it, you don't know. I mean, that's why I have a PR team. They read it and tell me if there's something, and that keeps you focused. I know my family and me well enough; why do I need to read about myself? I'm not going to change, I'm very stubborn in this way. I am what I am.
- Nov 07, 2020
My perfect weekend is going for a walk with my family in the park. I don't think there's anything better.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spend a lot of my spare time with my family. My sisters, parents, and in-laws all live nearby.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started drama school, theatre was the main draw. I never had any movie star notions. Not that there were family ties to the theatre, either.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Young men keep telling me they don't 'have it all' either. And they may have a point. But if you define 'having it all' as the opportunity to have a successful career and a family, I'd say this. When a man tells his coworkers he's going to have a child, no one asks him how he'll manage or if he'll be coming back to work.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I'm with friends is having a good time. I can't bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don't seem to be able to get any closer, and that's the problem.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the storms of life come, if they come to me personally, to my family or to the world, I want to be strong enough to stand and be a strength to somebody else, be shelter for somebody else.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Jesus says you must leave your family to follow Him, he doesn't necessarily mean physically. He means leave your dependence on them, make an emotional break with them.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children.
- Decadent
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with. And there's something wildy decadent about the young-star lifestyle, and I just don't really see the point.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised in a family where none of us ever raised a voice, so there was no room to express feelings of rage or even unabashed joy - a little bashed joy, here or there, or being mildly disgruntled.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020