Quote by Alex Haley
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are t

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. – Alex Haley

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My fondest hope is that Roots may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall. – Alex Haley

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Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. – Alex Haley

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What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life — to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories. – George Eliot

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I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family – and I dont think I could ask for anything more than that, actually. – Frank Sinatra

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For me, its about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. Its where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and thats very important to me. – Beyonce Knowles

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No matter what youve done for yourself or for humanity, if you cant look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished? – Lee Iacocca

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The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book. – Ron Reagan

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