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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christmas is a huge thing in my family. We usually start decorating the day after Thanksgiving. We spend Christmas Eve with one set of grandparents, and Christmas Day with the other grandparents and our family.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am the first one to go to university in my family. I am the first writer as well. My dad is a retired policeman, and my mom works for a glass-processing company. She is health-and-safety manager, and my stepfather is a plumber. I have four half siblings, one from my mom's marriage and three from my dad's marriage, so we are kind of scattered.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were both musicians and so I'm a musician. It was just natural that I should be a musician 'cause I was born into the family.
- Hour
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hour after hour, they shouted at me, accused me, insulted me and members of my family.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our family had been shattered, but we now are more united, and the remains of my family and the majority of my mother's family are glad to know the truth about a horrible crime.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is, I have more money than I'm interested in spending. Everyone in my family is taken care of.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to think about what I'm doing in 20 years. All I want is I want to be happy, and I hope my family are healthy. And that's all, really.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really the only artist in my family. I have one cousin who is a painter. I think I developed all of that from television and books - from being, essentially, an only child. I'm my mom's only child and my dad's fourth child, but separated by 14 years.
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- Nov 07, 2020