3 December 2020 Emma Thompson Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn’t listening.
3 December 2020 Rob Sheffield ‘American Horror’ is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.
3 December 2020 Christopher Lasch The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.
3 December 2020 Robert Cormier Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt ‘safe’ there.
3 December 2020 Dave Obey Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care.
3 December 2020 Cat Cora To me, money is the ability to create lifelong experiences for my family and myself, to educate my children and a way to give back to humanity.
3 December 2020 Dana Carvey I know it’s a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we’re all out of our minds. They’re the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I’ve ever met, my siblings.
3 December 2020 Charles Eastman The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.
3 December 2020 Maureen O'Hara I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.
3 December 2020 Bernice Weissbourd Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.
3 December 2020 Christopher Lasch The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.
3 December 2020 Barbara Bush You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
3 December 2020 Aung San Suu Kyi A family is very special. So when a family splits up, it’s not good, it’s never good.
3 December 2020 Nick Carter I don’t believe in being mean to anyone. I’m a really peaceful person. That’s something I get from my family.
3 December 2020 James Taylor People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don’t get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don’t start a family before you’re ready to settle down.
3 December 2020 Salma Hayek At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I’m still involved, but now I have a family and it’s important to me.
3 December 2020 Li Na I would prefer to have no money but to have a nice family and good friends around.
3 December 2020 Nik Wallenda 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.
3 December 2020 Jeff Bingaman I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.
3 December 2020 Toni Morrison I don’t think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It’s perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.
3 December 2020 Charles Dudley Warner Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
3 December 2020 Francesca Annis I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family… they are nearly always seen as victims.
3 December 2020 Richard M. Daley I’ve given it my all. I’ve done my best. Now, I’m ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.
3 December 2020 LaToya Jackson I can’t say it’s not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.
3 December 2020 Nathaniel Hawthorne The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing second, the gratification of one’s family and friends and lastly, the solid cash.
