Family Quotes
“All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.”
“If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'”
-- Jeff Foxworthy
“Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.”
-- Elizabeth Edwards
“I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.”
-- Francis Ford Coppola
“Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.”
-- P. J. O'Rourke