- 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
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm actually Cuban-born, born in 1956, the year Fidel Castro came into power, and my father moved my family to Miami a few years later when things were starting to look bad.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a daughter from a relationship I had in my late teens or early 20s. Because I felt it wasn't the kind of pukka behaviour my family or relatives would admit to, I denied it for many years.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
However, when my parents married in 1945, China was in turmoil and the possibility of returning grew increasingly remote, and they decided to begin their family in the United States.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
On its surface, the HBO documentary series 'Hard Knocks,' about the New York Jets' training camp, resembles another HBO series, 'The Sopranos.' Both star the stout patriarch of a New Jersey 'family' preoccupied with food, intimidation, and florid profanity.
- Nov 07, 2020
The real driver of my golf game is family. The family that plays together stays together, at least literally so.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, I didn't know that 'All in the Family' was satirizing male chauvinism or that Bobby Riggs was a self-promoting put-on. Many of us didn't get the irony and went on making fun of women and girls who wanted to play sports, especially the same sports that men and boys traditionally played.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way it worked was my mom came from a musical family, and my dad didn't - he was a pathologist.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My ideal day would be to get a good work out in, listen to music, talk to my family and friends on the phone, read and go to a good movie.
- Great Example
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leadership is possible in all different ways, and in all different areas of life. Whether it is with friends or family, I expect them to set a great example for me, and hopefully I will do the same for them. And that is all part of being a leader.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's an absolute honor to be taking part in the pageant for the Diamond Jubilee. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and will be a moment in history that will always be remembered. I'm really looking forward to being out on the river with friends and family. To mark this historic moment will be extremely special.
- England
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have English family in Northhampton and have been to England numerous times.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020