Quotes on Family

My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.

The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale the community itself is crippled.

All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race - racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic - what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.

If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.

I sustain myself with the love of family.

[T]he "home" represents the most precious human treasures, that of encounter, that of relations among people, different in age, culture and history, but who live together and together help one another to grow. For this reason, the "home" is a crucial place in life, where life grows and can be fulfilled, because it is a place in which every person learns to receive love and to give love.

I felt like I needed to come to terms with the decision I'd made to let go of my family. What do you do when you want to be loyal to your family but you feel that loyalty to them is in conflict somehow with loyalty to yourself?

When my mother left home, her family sat shivah for her, more because my father was not Jewish than because he was black.

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.

Reading was a huge part of my life as a child - we were a family of storytellers.

Our favorite teams bring people together, keep family members close, bond people from different generations. Some of the happiest moments of my life involve something that happened with one of my teams. Some of the best relationships I ever had were with Boston athletes that I never even met.

I'm an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my fans.

We support each other in the Coppola family. We love the idea of everyone getting his place in the sun.

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think that their children are naive.

The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

When I was 10 years old, my neighbor died in front of me of an asthma attack, because he and his family were undocumented immigrants and his grandmother was afraid of what would happen if they called an ambulance for help.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.