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.”
“It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.”
-- King Abdullah II
“I really have created a family. I work with the people I love, I travel with them, I make films with them, and I'm in an office with them. So in a weird way - I know I haven't birthed a child - I feel that I'm a part of creating a family. It's a tribe. I love that word.”
-- Drew Barrymore
“I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.”
-- Angie Stone
“If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who shows up for the funeral.”
-- Gregory Nunn
“The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.”
-- Lyndon B. Johnson