Family Quotes

“For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.”

-- Iain Duncan Smith

“For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.”

-- Sidney Altman

“My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.”

-- Jim Carrey

“Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.”

-- Gertrude Stein

“The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.”

-- Jackie Kennedy

“Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's country such statements express.”

-- Julie Burchill

“One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live.”

-- Nik Wallenda

“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.”

-- Alex Haley

“My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.”

-- Hugh Leonard

“I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.”

-- Nadia Giosia