- Comic Relief
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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
My uncle is a hemophiliac, and my brother is one as well. I am a carrier, and it's a disease that my kids also deal with. It's something that has affected my family and I for so long, and I think it's actually what drove me to comedy as a means to cope during tough times.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're a big community, a big family here in Houston.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life, in some ways, has been a half-measure. I didn't commit myself all the way to my marriage and family, because I would have given up more. And I didn't go all the way with just being completely selfish. I always wonder where my career would be if I was more selfish.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm going to stop giving too much money to charity - the charity is going to become my family. I'm only half-kidding.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything has to do with education: If you educate the girls, you educate the family, the community, and society, in general.
- Nov 07, 2020
War tore my family apart.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family is the most important thing to me.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life was filled with family in South Sudan. I am the seventh of nine children, and we grew up in what would be considered a middle-class family. We did not have a lot, but we did have more than a lot of other people.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Going back to South Sudan after the independence took place was deeply emotional for me because I had gone through the civil war with my family just before going to seek refuge in London.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020