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.”
“So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.”
-- Henry Louis Gates
“I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.”
-- Theodore Bikel
“The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.”
-- Steven Patrick Morrissey
“In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I'm enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.”
-- Brett Favre
“A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.”
-- Joseph Smith, Jr.
“The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.”
-- Robert Frost
“I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been.”
-- Tom Hardy
“Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account.”
-- Chris Christie