- Handed
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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
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like I've been guarded since I was about three years old. I don't know why. I come from such a huge family, so maybe it's that. Maybe it comes from going to Christmas and having 30 people all in your face at once. I've always been a bit like, 'Aaargh!'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family celebrates both the navratras that come twice in a year. We also refrain from eating meat. I just enjoy that people come home, savour the variety of snacks and participate in our puja during this time.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there were things I felt the White House needed to be doing differently, I'd probably call them. I have a saying, and I had this in Michigan as chair, which is, 'We're a family.' When you have a difference of opinion in your family, you don't go on 'Jerry Springer'; you pick up the phone, and you call your family member.
- Childcare
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must use our seat at the table to be a voice every day for women and girls across the country who often do not have the same opportunity to have their voices heard. This means advocating for childcare and paid family leave, as first daughter Ivanka Trump has championed in this administration.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the family money is for philanthropy, except for living expenses for my mother. She is 94 and isn't a big spender.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a family where soccer has always been very present. My uncles, my father and my brother were all players.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing percussion very young, because I had some uncles who were musicians and all my aunts were singers.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football is a great love because I was born into a family of players and therefore born into football. I'm fortunate to have a style of play that a lot of people like. It's a privilege to be able to do what I like best and in my own way, but I'm fortunate that people like it, and that motivates me even more.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up as the youngest child in a big, noisy family, and there was always someone around to hang out with.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
You get more irrationality within the family and in consumer behavior than you get, say, in the behavior of firms in their purchases.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live in Cullowhee, North Carolina. That's where I teach, at Western Carolina University. That region is where my family has lived for a long time and that region is my landscape.
- Family And Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
The last thing I want is to die and then be put into the Hall of Fame. It's not because I won't be there to enjoy it, exactly. It's because I want to enjoy it with family and friends and fans. I want to see them enjoy it.
- Loving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Outside of his loving family, I'm sure that Andy Griffith was Don Knotts' greatest fan.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020