Family Quotes
“It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.”
“If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'”
-- Jeff Foxworthy
“Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.”
-- Elizabeth Edwards
“I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.”
-- Francis Ford Coppola
“Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.”
-- P. J. O'Rourke