Family Quotes
“I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.”
“It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.”
-- Christopher Lasch
“As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up.”
-- Janet Jackson
“Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.”
-- James Brown
“Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.”
-- Christopher Lasch
“In my family, we let our boys have a say in what veggie side they want for dinner that night. We list off a handful of options and get them excited about helping to plan the dinner menu. They're much more inclined to finish their plates when they've helped decide what goes on them.”
-- Cat Cora