Family Quotes
“I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.”
“One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.”
-- Robert Byrd
“I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day.”
-- Mitch Albom
“As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.”
-- Ayelet Waldman
“My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.”
-- William Shatner
“I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.”
-- Patty Duke
“Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.”
-- Erma Bombeck