“In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.”

“You have to defend your honor. And your family.”

“The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.”

“The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.”

“I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.”

“According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third.”

“The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.”

“I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.”

“Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.”

“The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?”

“When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.”

“A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.”

“I like being in kids' movies, and I like being in family movies.”

“There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.”

“I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.”

“It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.”

“For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money - it is transformative. It's about taking responsibility for yourself and your family.”

“All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way.”

“The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.”

“This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.”

“I am very lucky, I have a very tight group of friends and a very supportive family, and to this date no-one has ever sold a story on me.”