Family Quotes

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

Children raised by mothers who do not keep their children sheltered from the wrath of their fathers, end up mistrusting women.

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.

A dog reflects the family life.

The first thing I look forward to when I am in Delhi is to spend some time with my family. It’s always lovely coming back here and playing in front of my own people. It’s just a special place.

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.

The most ironic thing is my grandfather has his master’s in music composition; he was a jazz composer. My dad was a musician, too. He played more, like, soul music.

Well, my mom was an Olympian, so we have some good genes on that front.

It is a moral outrage that the richest family in America pays workers at Walmart starvation wages.