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Family Quotes


"Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice."



"A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though."


"A wholesome mother knows the software to delete, download, upgrade and upload for the best results."



"Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy."



"Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, "A house guest," you're wrong because I have just described my kids."



"We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle."


"An increasing number of Canadians must juggle the demands of work with the need to care for children, or for family members who are ill or too frail to care for themselves. Our programs have simply not kept pace with these societal changes."


"My whole family's been in the business. My whole family is crazy."


"I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values."


"Your children need your presence more than your presents."


"Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice."



"It's more than just high quality food for the family table; it's growing the food in a way that does not harm the environment. That gives me emotional well-being that is important to me."


"One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults."



"What do you say to your sister who poses in the nude? It's not like you are really itching to see photographs of your sister naked. I mean, it's just something that is not too exciting."


"For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood."


"We have to be thankful considering our number as a family we enjoy very good health generally but you may be sure me and my partner have quite enough to exercise our minds and occupy our attention."


"Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme."


"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.'"


"My parents always seemed less like lovebirds than like amiable business partners, for whom I'm the sole product."


"The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family."
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