Family Quotes
“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.”
“But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!”
-- Stephen Covey
“The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.”
-- Martin Scorsese
“My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'”
-- Henry Louis Gates
“The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.”
-- Charles Eastman
“All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.”
-- Henry David Thoreau
“A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.”
-- Katharine Butler Hathaway