- Morning
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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
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never had a strategy about my life. I didn't have enough information to have a strategy. I'm the first person in my family to go to college. I had no family mentors.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.
- Fieldwork
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- Nov 07, 2020
Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful.
- Immigrant
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes my biography is interpreted as the upbringing of a French aristocrat. It was very, very different. We were a family of mercantile, immigrant Jews.
- First Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nurturing an inclusive culture begins in the family. Home is the first place to foster openness and a culture of inclusion.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
In France, Christmas is a family holiday. You stay home. New Year's Eve is when you go out.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a painter. There was a lot of singing. We hung around with a lot of folk musicians. My family knew a lot of great folk musicians of the time, like Woody Guthrie, Paul Robeson, Leadbelly. They were all people we knew.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.
- First One
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's hands, but we were all artists, I suppose, really. But I was the first one who had the urge to express myself on paper rather than at the coalface.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020