Family Quotes
“Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.”
“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