- 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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As our company grew and we began growing our family stateside - with heritages ranging from Liberian and Sierra Leonean to Irish, Indian, Swedish, Filipino, German, and beyond - our different cultural influences and walks of life helped us even better understand the criticality of an inclusive point of view.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Akron, Ohio, on June 6, 1943, one year to the day before D-Day, the allied invasion at Normandy. The youngest of four children, I was brought up in a wonderfully stable, loving family of strong Midwestern values.
- Donor
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- Nov 07, 2020
There can be legal conflicts over whether registering intent is enough to qualify you as an organ donor or whether a doctor must still ask your family's permission.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
After he was assassinated, his family and the men who had served him continued the lying and began the destruction, censoring and hiding of JFK's medical records.
- Jewish
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a very big family, and that is my number one thing, and we go away for a month to see my cousins in Italy every year, but I need to work.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Family is everything, although I've been fortunate enough to have worked with some of the most amazing minds over the years, including Renzo Piano, John Young, Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.
- Support
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't take a coal miner making $95,000 a year, the only work in these parts where you can support a family without having to hold down three jobs at once... and tell them, 'You can make minimum wage,' or, 'We can give you job training for jobs that don't exist in West Virginia.'
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young, I had two older sisters, and since I was the youngest in my family, my mom took me around with her all the time. I was forever with her when she was having coffee in the middle of the afternoon with her three sisters. And they would talk about men. I absorbed a lot of that.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't ever feel close to my real family. I didn't feel validated; I never felt right because I was always wrong.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know what my sweet spot has been. It's personal stuff, dysfunction, fear of intimacy, family stuff, psychology stuff. I eviscerate myself onstage.
- Nov 07, 2020