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.”
“I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.”
-- T. Boone Pickens
“A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.”
-- Christopher Lasch
“I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.”
-- Adam Sandler
“I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.”
-- George Clooney
“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.”
-- Richard Bach
“There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.”
-- Shirley Knight
“The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.”
-- Henry Louis Gates