Family
Collins married Diana Clavering Elliot (1917–2003) in 1939; they had four sons. Diana Collins was knighted in 1999 as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
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Famous quotes containing the word family:
“As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.”
—John Paul II [Karol Wojtyla] (b. 1920)
“Some [adolescent] girls are depressed because they have lost their warm, open relationship with their parents. They have loved and been loved by people whom they now must betray to fit into peer culture. Furthermore, they are discouraged by peers from expressing sadness at the loss of family relationships—even to say they are sad is to admit weakness and dependency.”
—Mary Pipher (20th century)
“When one family builds a wall, two families benefit from it.”
—Chinese proverb.