Family Quotes
“Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.”
“But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!”
-- Stephen Covey
“The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.”
-- Martin Scorsese
“My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'”
-- Henry Louis Gates
“The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.”
-- Charles Eastman
“All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.”
-- Henry David Thoreau
“A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.”
-- Katharine Butler Hathaway