Family Quotes
“You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.”
“But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!”
-- Stephen Covey
“The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.”
-- Martin Scorsese
“My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'”
-- Henry Louis Gates
“The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.”
-- Charles Eastman
“All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.”
-- Henry David Thoreau
“A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.”
-- Katharine Butler Hathaway