- Evening
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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
- Sports
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family was heavily into sports.
- Family Unit
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that the family unit has fundamentally been the most positive thing for society, and I don't believe that any minority has the right to create changes that impact on the majority.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always saw myself working for the family business.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write out my schedule for the week ahead on a white board. I step back. I take a second to look at it - to evaluate what each commitment means to me and my family. I ask myself, 'Will my participation have an impact? Is my attendance essential to the success of the event or to the person I'm supporting, even if I know I won't be present?'
- Nov 07, 2020
Birthdays are just weird! I like to have something simple like a dinner with friends and family if possible.
- Farmers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a family of farmers.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just like to think of everyone as a happy family but in football that just doesn't exist.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a young woman, with a regional accent, from a working class family, who has had a pretty standard education. So far, so ordinary. But in the places I've worked, one or more of these things would put me in the minority.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got obsessed with impersonations: impersonating people that I knew - people, not famous people but people like my family. At first, it was just fun; it's always been just fun. But I sort of got to a point in maybe seventh or eighth grade where I started getting heavily involved in drama programs via programs in my high school.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe the bar is low, but most of the strips that are 50, 60, 70 years old that are on their second or third generation of artists, the humor is pretty bland. There are others by people that were raised on 'Family Guy' or 'South Park' that are edgier. Mine's not as edgy as those, but it's edgier than 'Beetle Bailey.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The growing diversity of family life comes with new possibilities as well as new challenges.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
In personal life, the warm glow of nostalgia amplifies good memories and minimizes bad ones about experiences and relationships, encouraging us to revisit and renew our ties with friends and family. It always involves a little harmless self-deception, like forgetting the pain of childbirth.
- Bond
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- Nov 07, 2020