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.”
“In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.”
-- Monica Bellucci
“I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project.”
-- Sylvester Stallone
“When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.”
-- Alex Haley
“That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.”
-- Peter Singer
“What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.”
-- Harlan Coben