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.”
“Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction.”
-- Christopher Lasch
“The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.”
-- Christopher Lasch
“I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything. Everything in moderation. I know that's really hard for people to understand, but I grew up in an Italian family where we didn't overdo anything. We ate pasta, yes, but not a lot of it.”
-- Giada De Laurentiis
“Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very, very good. Spending $1,000 for a ham sandwich would feel very, very bad. Spending $19,000 for a small family car would feel, well, more or less right. But as with physical pain, fiscal pain can depend on the individual, and everyone has a different threshold.”
-- Jeffrey Kluger
“When you live on the road, going home is a place to escape and just be with your family to unwind.”
-- Jonathan Davis
“It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.”
-- Caroline Kennedy
“As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.”
-- Pope John Paul II