- I Am
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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
- Farmer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our father was a farmer and an entrepreneur as well as a musician, and we're pleased to deliver the fine taste of Jamaican coffee and our family's heritage to people everywhere through Marley's One Drop.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.K. was extremely important to my father and continues to be a place of tremendous goodwill for my family and I.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Much like my father instilled in us many of the values and traditions that my brothers and sisters and I still carry forward, P.C. Richard and Son is a family run business - now with four generations having worked toward providing customers with honesty, integrity and reliability. We are proud to be associated with such a beautiful family business.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is obviously a huge part of the Marley family identity. But that music is part of a larger idea - love.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
People know the Marley family for music.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marley Coffee is dedicated to my father's dream to return to the farmlands, to offer our family treasures to the world.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I write, I keep the family audience in mind. I ensure there's no vulgarity, as families are coming into the theatres, and there's no blood and gore because of the kids. There is a set of people who doesn't like my cinema, but there's a bigger group that likes the kind of movies I make.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know my audience, and they, in turn, know my cinema. When I pick a subject, it's for a family audience. I shoot and edit my films keeping them in mind. I'm dead sure about the product that bears my name.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was surrounded by music in my family, surrounded by people who sang songs - every single person I knew as a child growing up had one, two, three songs they knew from start to finish.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not what you would call a musical family, but my father used to play saxophone, and I discovered many genres of music when I was a child.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came from a very poor family. And I was able to rise up and actually win an Academy Award. And if I can do it, then any kid can do it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The establishment wants to connect with people who are like them, and I wasn't. I'm a black gay man from a poor working-class family. Most of the people who look like me are in prison.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of having proper qualifications had been very much ingrained in me. My father had a steady job for the Potato Marketing Board, and the family emphasis was on getting to university.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father came from a Quaker family. His father was a professional artist who did portraits - very traditional, a lot of religious subjects.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020