Family Quotes
“My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.”
“My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.”
-- Jim Carrey
“Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.”
-- Gertrude Stein
“The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.”
-- Jackie Kennedy
“Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's country such statements express.”
-- Julie Burchill
“One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live.”
-- Nik Wallenda