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.”
“The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.”
-- Bertrand Russell
“Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.”
-- Ang Lee
“I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.”
-- Chris Martin
“I have a mother that's very strong and family that surround me and constantly tell me they love me.”
-- Whitney Houston
“My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.”
-- Laura Schlessinger
“When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.”
-- John Cheever