Family Quotes
“I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.”
“In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.”
-- Antonin Scalia
“The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.”
-- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
“The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.”
-- Max Muller
“According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third.”
-- Kit Bond
“The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.”
-- Ashley Montagu