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.”
“Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.”
-- Barbara Bush
“I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.”
-- Jackie Chan
“By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.”
-- Lawrence Welk
“I'm thankful for all the things that this job has given me and my family. But probably the thing that I am most proud of throughout my career is that, not only myself, but my family and the people around me have just been regular people, which we are.”
-- Brett Favre
“My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.”
-- Julie Andrews
“Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.”
-- Ulysses S. Grant
“My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.”
-- Mitt Romney