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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have so many e-mails from people who are like, 'I never knew a family could be happy like this... My parents hate each other. I hate my brother. We fight all the time. I never wanted to have kids before I saw your family.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Manchester in a big Irish family - there are seven of us in all - so my life has always been about role-playing, about doing anything for a laugh. I'm always joking about; that's the way I am.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I said to my family is, 'Our history is our own. Let people write what they want, we know who we are.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life hands us a lot of hard choices, and other people can help us more than we might realize. We often think we should make important decisions using just our own internal resources. What are the pros and cons? What does my gut tell me? But often we have friends and family who know us in ways we don't know ourselves.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are times when I'm super-overwhelmed, and everything feels like it's hitting me in the face at once, but I think what's keeping me calm, and who I am by staying true to myself, is my whole family being so supportive and keeping me grounded. They treat me the exact same way they treated me years and years ago.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm appearing on 'Raw,' then I'm usually there to help sell tickets to something, and that's when you see the 'HBK' Shawn Michaels come out. At panels, I can be more open and honest and show some more humility. They don't want me talking about my family on TV, but I can in a panel setting.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My faith and family has helped me a great deal in that it helps me to live to a different standard.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always nice to be able to show your friends and family what it is that you do. I've had their support from the beginning and wouldn't be here without it, so yeah, I do whatever I can to be there with them when they go to see it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My friends ask me why I still live with my family, but I feel comfortable there. We've all been through so much together.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in Iowa I could have had it a lot worse. My family was more worried about my education and my health than the fact that I wore my sister's dresses.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a very turbulent and painful childhood, like many people. I left for college when I was 16 years old and up until that point I'd lived in five different family configurations. Each one ended or changed through a death or some terrible loss.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The nature of the government's surveillance on me and my family is forensically proven and not subject to legitimate question.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parents should be told that if they invest in the education and upbringing of a girl child, she will also make contributions for the family and society.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up in a Bengali family. We were three girls and never made to feel any lesser than men.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't remember titles of books or authors from when I was young. I remember the title of only one book, which was 'The Timber Toes.' I remember it was a family of little wooden people who lived in the woods, and for some reason that stayed with me.
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- Nov 07, 2020