FAMILY in Classic Quotes

1  But the family would look down on her.

Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE

2  I was afraid, man, she'd get in the family way.

Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In TWO GALLANTS

3  Many of her pupils belonged to the better-class families on the Kingstown and Dalkey line.

Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD

4  They're all right so long as he has money in his pocket to keep him out from his wife and family.

Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In GRACE

5  It was she who had chosen the name of her sons for she was very sensible of the dignity of family life.

Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD

6  It was strange that his mother had had no musical talent though Aunt Kate used to call her the brains carrier of the Morkan family.

Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD

7  We bought some biscuits and chocolate which we ate sedulously as we wandered through the squalid streets where the families of the fishermen live.

Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In AN ENCOUNTER

8  On special Sundays, when Mr. Kearney went with his family to the pro-cathedral, a little crowd of people would assemble after mass at the corner of Cathedral Street.

Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A MOTHER

9  Everybody who knew them came to it, members of the family, old friends of the family, the members of Julia's choir, any of Kate's pupils that were grown up enough, and even some of Mary Jane's pupils too.

Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD