Family Quotes
“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.”
“It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.”
-- King Abdullah II
“I really have created a family. I work with the people I love, I travel with them, I make films with them, and I'm in an office with them. So in a weird way - I know I haven't birthed a child - I feel that I'm a part of creating a family. It's a tribe. I love that word.”
-- Drew Barrymore
“I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.”
-- Angie Stone
“If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who shows up for the funeral.”
-- Gregory Nunn
“The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.”
-- Lyndon B. Johnson