American family Quote by Margaret Halsey

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish,…

— Colin Firth

The Huxtables laughed and bonded and debated and lip-synced. They were glamorous and simple and extraordinarily human. And affluent. And educated. And so many…

— Wesley Morris

Why, on my mother's birthday, am I thinking about 'Father Knows Best?' At our house, mother knew best at least as often as father…

— Tom Shales

American family life has never been particularly idyllic. In the nineteenth century, nearly a quarter of all children experienced the death of one of…

— Richard Louv

the psychological attitudes which are indispensable in the American market place are disastrous to family life. Family life ... requires yieldingness, generosity, sympathy, altruism,…

— Margaret Halsey

Women want a family life that glitters and is stable. They don't want some lump spouse watching ice hockey in the late hours of…

— Carolyn See

I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to…

— Regina King

“...when President Clinton, on the anniversary of his election, spoke in the church in Tennessee where Martin Luther King, Jr., had delivered his last…

— Gertrude Himmelfarb

I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched…

— Frances McDormand

Now we have black and white elected officials working together. Today, we have gone beyond just passing laws. Now we have to create a…

— John Lewis

“We are taken through the pursuit of the American dream, the establishment of the American family, and a smattering of suspense and intrigue.”

— Nikita Allgire

To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children.

— Erma Bombeck

“At the very same time that we witnessed the explosion of white celebrity moms, and the outpouring of advice to a surveillance of middle-class…

— Susan J. Douglas

We want American families to feel more confident in life. We want the next generation to know that yes, the best days of this…

— Paul Ryan

In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that…

— P. J. O'Rourke