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.”
“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