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.”
“If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'”
-- Jeff Foxworthy
“Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.”
-- Elizabeth Edwards
“I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.”
-- Francis Ford Coppola
“Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.”
-- P. J. O'Rourke