Famous quotes containing the words close and/or relationship:
“No. We haven’t seen the end of them. We’ve only had a close view of the beginning of what may be the end of us.”
—Ted Sherdeman. Gordon Douglas. Dr. Medford (Edmund Gwenn)
“Christianity as an organized religion has not always had a harmonious relationship with the family. Unlike Judaism, it kept almost no rituals that took place in private homes. The esteem that monasticism and priestly celibacy enjoyed implied a denigration of marriage and parenthood.”
—Beatrice Gottlieb, U.S. historian. The Family in the Western World from the Black Death to the Industrial Age, ch. 12, Oxford University Press (1993)