Family Quote by Red Skelton

Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.

— Roland Barthes

The American house has been TV-centered for three generations. It is the focus of family life, and the life of the house correspondingly turns…

— James Howard Kunstler

If you turn on the TV, you're going to get a certain palate, and if you go looking underneath the surface, there's a whole…

— Ani DiFranco

And I don't mean that the storytelling that's out there shouldn't be happening. I just feel like that there's this huge imbalance with it…

— Michael Landon, Jr

After meeting the family, they really felt like a sitcom family, ... I thought it would be cool if we did a reality show,…

— Tony DiSanto

That TV set in your home has the power to destroy your family.

— Anita Bryant

You know this old style of American family series? Well, I sit there and cry.

— Graham Kennedy

I think, with TV, you create kind of a family to work with.

— Miranda Otto

We do a very family oriented show.

— Eddie Rabbitt

I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire.

— John Updike

There is a great degree of comfort with your family when you're on a TV show.

— Gillian Jacobs

Where there is television, the people perish.

— Anonymous