- 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
When I go back to family reunions everybody goes, 'Hey cousin! Hey Auntie!' And I'm like, 'Okay I don't know you, I have no idea who you are.' I am auntie and cousin for so many and even the ones in prison call me collect. And I'll be like, 'Which of my family members are giving you this phone number?'
- Market
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- Nov 07, 2020
The market is my church; it's my family.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
My truculent opponents are out to settle scores that have nothing to do with Sherpa, and I refuse to allow my enemies to drag my Sherpa family into their fight with me.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I care deeply about the long-term success of the firm and believe my decision to resign is the best decision in the interests of the Sherpa Capital family of team members, founders, and LPs.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am going to spend more time face-to-face with my friends and family. I am going to unplug more.
- Office
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family visits the office, and we have dinner together. We do this once or twice a week.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too many of the elderly do not have the family or the communal attachments necessary to feel valued; too many are widowed or otherwise alone; too many live in surroundings where they are essentially without the companionship necessary to stimulate a mind in danger of deteriorating.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being someone who had had a very difficult childhood, a very difficult adolescence - it had to do with not quite poverty, but close. It had to do with being brought up in a family where no one spoke English, no one could read or write English. It had to do with death and disease and lots of other things. I was a little prone to depression.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although I was raised in Canada and the U.K., my roots are in Egypt through my father, in a family line that stretches back generations and runs along the Nile, from the concrete of Cairo to the coast of Alexandria.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world. Just because we got rid of the father of the nation in Egypt or Tunisia, Mubarak or Ben Ali, and in a number of other countries, does not mean that the father of the family does not still hold sway.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother's family is Christian: her father was a Baptist lay preacher, and her brother, in a leap of Anglican upward mobility, became a vicar in the Church of Wales. But my mother converted to Islam on marrying my father. She was not obliged to; Muslim men are free to marry ahl al-kitab, or people of the Book - among them, Jews and Christians.
- Egyptian
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were the outliers: my mother was the only Western woman (khawagayya, in Egyptian Arabic) to have married into the family, and during my childhood, we were the only members living outside of Egypt. So between my father's prestige as the eldest son and my own exotic pedigree, I basked in the spotlight.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other. Thus, no marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose, respecting and relying upon each other's strengths.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I certainly never get above my station - my family would soon slap me back down to earth.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could describe my career in two words: who knew. I was on the path to becoming a professional baseball player, but I got injured in college. When I decided to move out to L.A. to try acting, nobody was betting on me, not even my family. But it's always been that way for me; nothing has come easy.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020