Family Quotes

“I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.”

-- Al Sharpton

“The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.”

-- Ice Cube

“It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.”

-- Barbara Bush

“I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.”

-- Erma Bombeck

“Seeing the family is a very important part of my weekend.”

-- Susannah York

“Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.”

-- Bernice Weissbourd

“No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.”

-- Tom Hanks

“Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.”

-- Vartan Gregorian

“Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.”

-- Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.”

-- Bruce Barton