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Family

The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched. – Henry Louis Gates

Seeing the family is a very important part of my weekend. – Susannah York

I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark. – Mario Batali

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general. – Novalis

The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family – my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid – to live in the apartment building. – Tom Morello

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family. – Peace Pilgrim

I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims. – Francesca Annis

Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements. – Queen Elizabeth II

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. – Francesca Annis

My family and I built my whole career from scratch. – Maria Sharapova

My family is awesome. – Miranda Lambert

I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns. – Jeff Bingaman

Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives. – Joe Baca

I grew up in a Navy family. – Elizabeth Edwards

We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot. – Elizabeth Edwards

Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it. – Elizabeth Edwards

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust? – Garrett Hardin

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else. – Garrett Hardin

I am very lucky, I have a very tight group of friends and a very supportive family, and to this date no-one has ever sold a story on me. – Sienna Miller

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family. – Clare Boothe Luce