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.”
“The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.”
-- H. Rap Brown
“Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.”
-- Hans-Georg Gadamer
“Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.”
-- George Bernard Shaw
“My parents did a great job raising me and my two sisters. We all graduated from high school and we all graduated from college. So, to be a good representative of my family is probably my greatest accomplishment thus far.”
-- Robert Griffin III
“I am blessed to have so many great things in my life - family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.”
-- Lil' Kim
“I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.”
-- Francesca Annis