- Life
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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
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the third or fourth generation of actor in my family; I'm sure if they were butchers, I'd be a butcher, too.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, I am scared of prison. It's the last thing if you are after building up a business over 38 years and you are approaching your 66th birthday and you never owed a man a penny and you feel hard done by and you try to protect yourself and your family and go to prison - if that is the society we are living in, I am happy to accept that.
- Great Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a total loser, in every aspect of my life. I rarely go out. I have a great family and we spend all our time together. I work hard and play hard with them.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum and dad teach, and all my brothers and sisters have been in 'Riverdance' and so forth. So I was forced to become a dancer; it's part of my family history.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have these beautiful children and this extraordinary family, and to think in any way shape or form that that's wrong or that there's shame in that or that there's something to hide actually turns my stomach.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why wasn't Michelle Obama, on October 1st, at the computer with her family signing up for Obamacare, or Jay Carney? They have their own gold-plated health care plan.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've dealt with many challenges in my life, with my family.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gaelic hill-fort. His side of the family, and the houses I associate with his side of the family, belonged to a traditional rural Ireland.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
My interactions with my family members are all one-to-one. We don't all get together for Thanksgiving dinner. But I can sit and tell any one of them about a conversation that I just had with the other one, and they're all curious and interested and respectful.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
My personal missteps - how many Americans have died as a result of that? None. Other than my family, how many victims were there? None. And yet, in refusing to engage in a responsible debate about Iraq, how many Americans died? Thousands. And America seems to have no problem with that.
- Patriotism
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- Nov 07, 2020
One, if you attack my integrity, I will defend myself. If you attack my patriotism, I will defend myself. If you come after my family, I will counter-attack viciously, I will destroy you.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020