Family Quotes
“What people don't understand is joining a gang ain't bad, it's cool, it's fine. When you in the hood, joining a gang it's cool because all your friends are in the gang, all your family's in the gang. We're not just killing people every night, we're just hanging out, having a good time.”
“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