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.”
“My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.”
-- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
“The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.”
-- Charles Kuralt
“As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.”
-- Chanakya
“Growing up with my family gave me some of my best memories. I'd like to have a family of my own - slip away for a bit and do nothing but spend those early years with my children.”
-- Katherine Jenkins
“It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.”
-- Elizabeth Gilbert
“You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.”
-- Robert Benchley