Family Quotes
“You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.”
“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