Family Quotes
“As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up.”
“The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?”
-- Terry Pratchett
“When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.”
-- Sachin Tendulkar
“A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.”
-- Igor Stravinsky
“There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.”
-- Michel de Montaigne
“I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.”
-- Patrick Henry
“It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.”
-- Christopher Lasch