Family Quotes
“There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.”
“Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it.”
-- Curt Schilling
“President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. My promise... is to help you and your family.”
-- Mitt Romney
“My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.”
-- Gwyneth Paltrow
“If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA.”
-- Henry Louis Gates
“It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.”
-- Lewis Thomas
“I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I've done, but it was right for me.”
-- LaToya Jackson