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.”
“My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.”
-- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
“The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.”
-- Charles Kuralt
“As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.”
-- Chanakya
“Growing up with my family gave me some of my best memories. I'd like to have a family of my own - slip away for a bit and do nothing but spend those early years with my children.”
-- Katherine Jenkins
“It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.”
-- Elizabeth Gilbert
“You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.”
-- Robert Benchley