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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”