Famous Quotes

"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."

Toni Morrison on Family

More quotes about Family

• "I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future."

  LaToya Jackson on Family

• "If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher."

  Abdul Kalam on Family

• "Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten."

  David Ogden Stiers on Family

• "The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege."

  Charles Kuralt on Family

• "Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship."

  Margaret Mead on Family

More quotes by Toni Morrison

• "You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone."

• "Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form."

• "At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough."

• "There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people."

• "Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us it is also about me and you. Just the two of us."