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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
- Sky
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Power, that's one thing, but love of family and of siblings is more important, is more powerful than any other power - at least earthly power, at least earthly power.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think kids are in your temporary care, and that they probably arrive with pretty much the personalities they're going to have. I grew up in a perfectly traditional family and turned out how I did. I'm not sure there's much that the family can do except lots of love and lots of care and lots of chances for them to develop the best they can.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born gay, OK? I've always known. I don't think my family were the least bit surprised.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my life's watchwords is 'hyggelig.' It's an untranslatable Danish term for getting together with friends and family and sitting around in a cosy atmosphere with nice food and wine and candles.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mostly, I'm totally happy in my own space at home with the door closed with my family and friends.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, I love my homes, I love to travel, I love my family, and I love doting on my new grandchildren. But you can only do so much of that. I don't go to lunch with friends. I don't join clubs. I don't have any big hobbies. I work. I come up with stories. I can't even imagine a life where I'm not sitting around, worried about my next book.
- Mad
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- Nov 07, 2020
How we treat our invalids - our mad, our physically or mentally compromised family members - does tell you something about who we are politically, historically, culturally.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I've grown to admire Queen Elizabeth II more. I've always struggled with my feelings about the Royal Family. I am a supporter. I'm not someone who thinks we should get rid of them. But what I've struggled with is the lack of emotionality that the Queen seems to share.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked for my family's Polynesian dance troupe for my entire life up until I started wresting full time.
- Extended
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young, one Sunday every month or so, my mom would load my brothers and me into our station wagon and drive 80 miles north to Orange County, where we'd meet our extended family at a Persian restaurant for lunch.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020