- Happy
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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
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I watch so much TV, it's sad. I watch 'Happy Endings', '30 Rock', 'Parks and Rec', 'The Office', 'Eagleheart', 'Children's Hospital'. 'Modern Family' I guess I'm still kinda watching.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will probably only give birth to two and then the rest will come to our family however it happens. I can only hold two, but you never know. I really want a boy because boys love their mamas!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family couldn't be more supportive. They're worried and they're always in my business, and my mother does send me grad-school applications every now and again.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think New York is a really wonderful place to raise a child. There's so much available, and so much diversity and culture, lots of things to see and do. My whole family is here.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Discretion is the most important thing for a banker. That is the philosophy of the family... I mean, of the bank.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we live in a world where the most important thing is daily life: sharing a space with your family, making meals, being with your people. It's not only the idea of privacy, it's the beauty of the moment, at a time in the world when everything goes really fast - too fast.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
For our family, learning was everything. Homework came first; books, being sacred, were never to be left on the floor.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a teenager growing up in the suburbs of Washington, I ritually watched the Sunday-morning political talk shows with my family. We parsed and argued and jeered at the screen as national figures delivered careful, poll-tested talking points.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2012, I received a phone call from the family of Arsala Rahmani, the Afghan senator with whom I'd become friendly. That morning, a gunman had pulled up alongside Rahmani's vehicle, idling in a crowded intersection, and shot him point blank.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'You have chickens?' That's what nearly everyone asks next, after they find out about our family pets. They just need to make sure they heard me correctly. Perhaps it's because I don't come across to most as a rural-loving farm girl.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't a cliquey person, and I think that's because I came from a large family. I got along with everybody, and I usually got along with the people that people didn't like.
- Directive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art was not a thing for my family and is still not a thing for my family. My family will not go to a museum unless I say we have to go there. That's why I really feel like it was something I was supposed to do because there was no directive that pushed me in that direction.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Families can be the most detrimental things to have in your life. They are sometimes the most poisonous relationships that people have. Sometimes family is the thing that keeps you from ever achieving what you want to achieve, and yet people hold it and hold it and grab it and try to fix it and twist it and turn it.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.
- Encouragement
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.
- Hers
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- Nov 07, 2020