Family Quotes
“I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.”
“Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.”
-- Thomas Mann
“In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.”
-- Billie Joe Armstrong
“Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers.”
-- Les Brown
“In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.”
-- Marlo Thomas
“I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.”
-- Harry Houdini
“Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.”
-- Margaret Drabble