Family Quotes
“Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.”
“Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day.”
-- Emo Philips
“A family is very special. So when a family splits up, it's not good, it's never good.”
-- Aung San Suu Kyi
“I'm not ready to get married, but I have a pretty great family and I'd like that too, someday.”
-- Kristen Stewart
“My mom always said I was the peacemaker in the family. My older brother, Eric, was the leader, the creative one. I was just his puppet.”
-- Gwen Stefani
“My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay.”
-- Harvey Fierstein