"The promise of America has always been that if you worked hard, had the right values, took some risks, that there was an opportunity to build a better life for your family and for your next generation." - Mitt RomneyTweet
"My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father." - Hugh LeonardTweet
"My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son." - Laura SchlessingerTweet
"At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame." - Barbara EhrenreichTweet
"As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live." - Pope John Paul IITweet
"The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship." - Havelock EllisTweet
"Anyone that has a job that takes them away from home, I think, can understand the difficulties in maintaining consistency, not only with your family and those you love but with your friends." - Heath LedgerTweet
"You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it." - Robert BenchleyTweet
"I don't think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family." - Reba McEntireTweet
"Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops." - Cary GrantTweet