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.”
“If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'”
-- Jeff Foxworthy
“Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.”
-- Elizabeth Edwards
“I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.”
-- Francis Ford Coppola
“Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.”
-- P. J. O'Rourke