Family Quotes
“We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.”
-- Jerry Falwell
“You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.”
-- John le Carre
“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.”
-- Kofi Annan
“Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.”
-- Katherine Heigl
“The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.”
-- Elton John
“I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.”
-- Eliot Spitzer
“If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.”
-- Rachael Ray
“Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.”
-- Clare Boothe Luce
“I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.”
-- LaToya Jackson
“I have lived in Mumbai for more than 20 years, have my domicile here, my home and family here.”
-- Shahrukh Khan
“Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.”
-- Barbara Bush
“When I go back to family reunions everybody goes, 'Hey cousin! Hey Auntie!' And I'm like, 'Okay I don't know you, I have no idea who you are.' I am auntie and cousin for so many and even the ones in prison call me collect. And I'll be like, 'Which of my family members are giving you this phone number?'”
-- Sherri Shepherd
“We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60 years: the transformation of Britain into a multi-ethnic, multi-faith society. No one does interfaith better than the Royal family, and it starts with the Queen herself.”
-- Jonathan Sacks