- Love
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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
- Devote
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working long hours being single helps because your time is yours. Once you have a family your time isn't all yours anymore. Most of the Mac team, we were in our mid-20's, most of us were single, and we were able to essentially devote our lives to it.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the people in my family were pretty funny. Everyone had a good sense of humor. I came to California right after college, wanting to be a musician.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I would have loved to have had was a family that worked better together, although I love my mother and father to bits.
- Friends And Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Friends and family were convinced I was functioning just fine because I was efficient, productive and successful - who wouldn't be working twenty hour days? I had everybody fooled with my illness.
- Credit
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- Nov 07, 2020
My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding of unnecessary material goods and bizarre generosity with family, friends and even strangers.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money is a huge issue for manic depressives. Sometimes the problem is not nearly on the same scale as it has been for me, but nonetheless, it's difficult to deal with. Many get themselves into debt that can take years to clear up, write bad cheques, shoplift and borrow huge amounts from family and friends.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American lionization of the entrepreneur is to ignore its foibles - the narcissism, the workaholism, the neglect of family, the imbalance, the obsession. These are not universally good things, though they are frequently universal to building great companies.
- Good Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The youngest boy in an Indian family has a good life. Growing up in a matriarchal family where my Indian mom's culture was dominant, I experienced this first hand.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a traditional man. I'm a product of a traditional man. He sacrificed everything for his family.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every family is dysfunctional.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents. I've always known what is and isn't reality.
- Love Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love me some 'Family Guy.'
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not enough to make time for your children. There are certain stages in their lives when you have to give them the time when they want it. You can't run your family like a company. It doesn't work.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020