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.”
“In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.”
-- Alfred Adler
“I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.”
-- Joseph Stiglitz
“I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.”
-- Sidney Poitier
“In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.”
-- Anna Quindlen
“I've been to all 50 states, and traveled this whole country, and 90 percent of the people are good folks. The rest of them take after the other side of the family.”
-- Jeff Foxworthy