- Great
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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 Aug 01, 2026
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always felt a bit of a nerd, but my family gets me and my oddities. My kids and partner are way cooler than I am, but they let me in the room with them.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
London does two things for me: it makes me feel connected, and it also makes me feel very isolated and quite lonely at times, and that's someone with two children in their family.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can understand a family that's imploding. I have experience of that in my own life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the grace of God, my parents were fantastic. We were a very normal family, and we have had a very middle-class Indian upbringing. We were never made to realise who we were or that my father and mother were huge stars - it was a very normal house, and I'd like my daughter to have the same thing.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mythologicals and historicals have always found takers in India. The audience identifies with them and they make for good family viewing.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very much a family person.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were not poor, I mean we were a very average middle-class family of academics, but my grandfather happened to have built house literally next to one of Kolkata's largest slum.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very lucky to be born into a very academic family. I was well-read, well-trained in mathematics. I had lots of advantages to start with.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.
- Different Places
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see my future with my family, with my grandsons and daughters, and I want to look after some welfare institutions I had set up at different places in the country with the help of expatriate Pakistanis.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, sometimes if I go out to dinner with my family, people will come up to me and put their hand across my plate for me to shake, sometimes when I have a bite of food in my mouth. I find this a bit disturbing.
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020
For any athlete growing up, the Olympics is the one thing you watch with your family, and it's the one thing you dream about. Seeing your country's flag go up as you get a gold medal is the best thing you can achieve.
- Family Planning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Natural Family Planning works and is as effective, and sometimes more effective, than the birth control methods out there.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I am a single-issue voter, I certainly don't live a single-issue existence. Many causes affect my family and me, and I intend to be a voice for those as well.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020