Family Quotes
“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.'”
“I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.”
-- T. Boone Pickens
“A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.”
-- Christopher Lasch
“I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.”
-- Adam Sandler
“I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.”
-- George Clooney
“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.”
-- Richard Bach
“There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.”
-- Shirley Knight
“The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.”
-- Henry Louis Gates