Family Quotes
“God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.”
-- Jerry Falwell
“My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.”
-- Mike Honda
“Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand!”
-- Oscar Pistorius
“My dad's whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we didn't have that big Indian community. I don't really have anything interesting to say about it. When I talk about it people are like, 'meh, let's talk about something else.'”
-- Mindy Kaling
“Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.”
-- Jerry B. Jenkins
“In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.”
-- Alfred Adler
“I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.”
-- Joseph Stiglitz
“I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.”
-- Sidney Poitier
“In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.”
-- Anna Quindlen
“I've been to all 50 states, and traveled this whole country, and 90 percent of the people are good folks. The rest of them take after the other side of the family.”
-- Jeff Foxworthy
“The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.”
-- C. J. Cherryh
“My grandfather's family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door selling their pasta. So his love of food came from his parents, which was then passed down to my mother and then again to me.”
-- Giada De Laurentiis
“One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.”
-- Ben Kingsley