- Never
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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
- Farm
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
- Houston
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family is all from the Southwest. My great-great-grandfather was at the Battle of San Jacinto with Sam Houston.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The two things that I wanted in my life were to have a movie career and to be married, to have a family. And it's an embarrassment of riches that I've got both.
- Drought
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up on a family farm, I know firsthand the challenges of running a small business... challenges that only seem to be growing for today's entrepreneurs.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a popular class called Family Living, the precursor to Sociology, which he eventually taught. My grandmother was a beloved one-room school teacher at Knob School, near Sonora in Larue County, Ky.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do realize that God has given me so many blessings in my life. I mean, not only with football, but with the family that He's blessed me with and the opportunity He's given me to grow up in a home that embraces God.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unborn children do not have a voice, but they are young members of the human family. It is time to look at the unborn child, and recognize that it is really a young human, who can feel pain and should be treated with care.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Colbys aren't a dynasty yet, but since the show is not called 'Dynasties,' just 'Dynasty,' we thought that was really interesting that it's about how this other family is going to become competition for the Carringtons.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
My background wasn't an issue for her or for her family. But if someone had said to my parents back in the 1970s that one of their children would have a mixed marriage, I think they'd have thought that was very unusual.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she had a college degree, but after my father left, she took the first secretarial job she could find and never looked for other employment again.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020