“My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'”

“The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.”

“All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.”

“A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.”

“If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.”

“I love my family.”

“The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.”

“It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.”

“I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.”

“Seeing the family is a very important part of my weekend.”

“Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.”

“No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.”

“Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.”

“Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.”

“Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.”

“Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day.”

“A family is very special. So when a family splits up, it's not good, it's never good.”

“I'm not ready to get married, but I have a pretty great family and I'd like that too, someday.”

“My whole family is very sarcastic and constantly making jokes.”

“My mom always said I was the peacemaker in the family. My older brother, Eric, was the leader, the creative one. I was just his puppet.”

“My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay.”