Family Quotes

"People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own."

"America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home."

"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."

"A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center."

"Family is not an important thing. It's everything."

"Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship."

"You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined."

"My father respected and admired my mother and was a person who was always standing by my side, encouraging me to do more and believed in my capacity. So in that sense, my own experience was very good in becoming an empowered woman. From early on, I carried that strong message: 'You can do it.' So I never had any doubt that women can do a lot."

"So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship."

"Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action."

"Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother."

"My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics."

"I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father."

"See, that's why Barack's running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly - to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American - and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college."

"The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced."

"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time."

"In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled."

"My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much."

"Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life."

"I've just got crap hair. Although I inherited a lot of stuff from my dad, including giant knees, I didn't get his good, thick hair. I got my mother's thin, wispy, non-event hair instead."