Family Quotes
“You go to a restaurant in the States and kids have these game boards at the table. You don't see that in Italy or Spain. It's not because they can't afford to buy them, it's because that's not what eating together as a family is about.”
“In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.”
-- Monica Bellucci
“I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project.”
-- Sylvester Stallone
“When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.”
-- Alex Haley
“That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.”
-- Peter Singer
“What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.”
-- Harlan Coben