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Best Quotes About Family (Top 100)
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A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard -
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'
Stephen King -
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle -
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
Brigham Young -
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain -
The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.
Abigail Van Buren -
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.
Jim Butcher -
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns -
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank -
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
Charles Dickens -
Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
Benjamin Spock -
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
William Shakespeare -
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw -
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
Harper Lee -
If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.
Johnny Depp -
Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas
Paula Poundstone -
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.
Washington Irving -
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
Robert Frost -
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie -
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde -
[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
Jim Henson -
One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
Jonathan Safran Foer -
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
Mae West -
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
Lois Wyse -
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Albert Einstein -
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
Richard Bach -
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.
Frederick Buechner -
A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.
Mary Karr -
I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.
Thomas Jefferson -
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
Earl Nightingale -
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Euripides -
This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.
Mitch Albom -
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
Indira Gandhi -
Your success as a family... our success as a nation... depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.
Barbara Bush -
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
Alexander the Great -
There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.
Jerry Seinfeld -
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
Rachel Carson -
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
Ambrose Bierce -
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Calvin Trillin -
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Phyllis Diller -
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Groucho Marx -
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
Dorothy Parker -
Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.
Sam Levenson -
A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.
Emily Giffin -
We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.
Maya Angelou -
Parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.
Bill Cosby -
Writers will happen in the best of families.
Rita Mae Brown -
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau -
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
Alex Haley -
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
Anne Sexton -
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Kofi Annan -
All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.
Brigitte Nielsen -
Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
Black Elk -
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.
Frank Sinatra -
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
Desmond Tutu -
I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. And Mother. And God.
Johnny Cash -
In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.
Antonin Scalia -
You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.
Elizabeth Berg -
Smile at each other. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other- it doesn't matter who it is- and that will help to grow up in greater love for each other.
Mother Teresa -
The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.
Mencius -
No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
Lee Iacocca -
Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey.
Jack Layton -
The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.
Mario Puzo -
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby -
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke -
When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.
Erma Bombeck -
Laughter is an instant vacation.
Milton Berle -
Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.
Robert Frost -
A man should never neglect his family for business.
Walt Disney -
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Sam Levenson -
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus -
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
Confucius -
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
Harmon Killebrew -
No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.
J. Edgar Hoover -
Never exalt people because they're in your family; never exalt people because they're your color; never exalt people because they're your kinfolk. Exalt them because they're worthy.
Louis Farrakhan -
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
Erma Bombeck -
Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
Victor Borge -
Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.
Barbara Bush -
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Sophia Loren -
If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'
Jeff Foxworthy -
Other things may change us, but we start and end with family
Anthony Brandt -
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.
Jim Bishop -
Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.
Joanne Woodward -
I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.
Joan Rivers -
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Richard Bach -
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
Fran Lebowitz -
I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
Peter Marshall -
Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
Cary Grant -
Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.
Kate Douglas Wiggin -
The greatest work we will ever do will be within the walls of our home.
David O. McKay -
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
Francesco Guicciardini -
If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
Abigail Van Buren -
There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
Anwar Sadat -
The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.
Dodie Smith -
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
Washington Irving
Even More Family Quotes
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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Zig Ziglar -
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
Agatha Christie -
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Abigail Van Buren -
Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.
Woody Allen -
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher -
As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
Buddy Hackett -
Babies are such a nice way to start people.
Don Herold -
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
Charles Kuralt -
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
Charles R. Swindoll -
Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.
Bill Cosby -
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Honore de Balzac -
We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
John Sculley -
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.
Bill Richardson -
In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.
Eva Burrows -
And my parents finally realize I'm kidnapped and they snap into action immediately: They rent out my room.
Woody Allen -
I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
Dean Acheson -
My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.
Casey Affleck -
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Buddha -
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
Niels Bohr -
What's done to children, they will do to society.
Karl A. Menninger -
Faith is a choice like any other. If you're picking a career or a husband - or deciding whether to have a baby - there are feelings and reasons pro and con out the wazoo. But thinking it through is - at the final hour - horse dookey. You can only try out.
Mary Karr -
The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.
Pearl S. Buck -
I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
Erma Bombeck -
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Erma Bombeck -
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
Ken Dodd -
Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.
James Brown -
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Samuel Johnson -
The family is a haven in a heartless world.
Christopher Lasch -
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.
Ulysses S. Grant -
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
Sam Levenson -
Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
Jane Austen -
The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
Lee Iacocca -
To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
Marilyn French -
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Walter Winchell -
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
Alex Haley -
So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
Haniel Long -
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
Jessamyn West -
July 4 is the perfect day to relax. It also provides a very good chance to spend quality time with friends and family since everyone is able to get away from the hassles of every day life, such as work.
Colin Chapman -
Total commitment to family and total commitment to career is possible, but fatiguing.
Muriel Fox -
In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
Robert Benchley -
It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross -
What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique . . . You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.
Pablo Casals -
There are not seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.
Walt Streightiff -
The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.
Nancy Mitford -
To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.
Peter McWilliams -
When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.
Joyce Brothers -
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
Doug Larson -
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
Lee Iacocca -
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
Margaret Mead -
My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother was a great example for me. She was a working mother with a good career.
Andrea Jung -
I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Pearl S. Buck -
No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Florida Scott-Maxwell -
In truth a family is what you make it. It is made strong, not by number of heads counted at the dinner table, but by the rituals you help family members create, by the memories you share, by the commitment of time, caring, and love you show to one another, and by the hopes for the future you have as individuals and as a unit.
Marge Kennedy -
In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.
Margaret Laurence -
If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin -
Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.
Bob Ehrlich -
You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.
Bill Cosby -
To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
Barbara Bush -
My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?
Anthony Edwards -
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Ogden Nash -
Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
Margaret Drabble -
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
Jonathan Swift -
The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.
Barbara Bush -
Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
Charles Dudley Warner -
Avon is a unique place to work; we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company; 46 percent of our officers are women.
Andrea Jung -
Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.
Doug Larson -
One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
Randall Jarrell -
I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage, so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi, Pavarotti, DiMaggio, Valentino, De Niro, Giuliani. . .
Susan Lucci -
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
Jane Howard -
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Dr. Seuss -
A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.
Frank A. Clark -
With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.
Wyndham Lewis -
Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
Vince Lombardi -
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
Joseph Joubert -
So, if you have a grandma, thank the good Lord above, and give your grandmamma hugs and kisses, for grandmothers are to love.
Lois Wyse -
Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.
Evan Esar -
The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.
Christopher Lasch -
If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.
Lois Wyse -
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Albert Schweitzer -
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
Sigmund Freud -
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Brigham Young -
I am very adamant about keeping my private life private. I don't prefer to talk about my family.
Luis Miguel -
What God is to the world, parents are to their children.
Philo -
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
Robert Orben -
I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family.
Steven Adler -
I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.
Victor Borge -
A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.
Joe DiMaggio -
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard Shaw -
In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.
Woody Allen -
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
Cyril Connolly -
There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.
Jill Churchill -
I'm the only Red in our family! You know my father, my brother, my brother-in-law, my 14-year-old niece and two of my uncles are all City season ticket holders. So I'm gonna say 5-0 to United!
Ian Brown -
A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
Charles R. Swindoll -
The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.
Kim Jong Il -
Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.
Bo Bennett -
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow -
A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.
Hugh Sidey -
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
Robert Frost -
Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.
Robert Orben -
The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.
Malcolm de Chazal -
Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
Amos Bronson Alcott -
My family background was deeply Christian.
Abbe Pierre -
It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.
Homer -
Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.
John F. Kennedy -
Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
Golda Meir -
As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
John Donne -
Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.
Benjamin Rush -
I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it.
Christina Applegate -
Friends are God's apology for relations.
Hugh Kingsmill -
When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.
John Cheever -
Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.
Alex Haley -
We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.
George Will -
A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
Erma Bombeck -
To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home.
Hal Borland -
I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
Robert Orben -
The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
Felix Adler -
I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.
Trey Parker -
A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.
Katharine Butler Hathaway -
I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents. I've always known what is and isn't reality. Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference. I was moving about with my own gang, the skinheads, wearing steel-toed army boots and kicking in shop windows.
Andy Gibb -
Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other.
Ivy Baker Priest -
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
Lydia M. Child -
In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.
Douglas Engelbart -
Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
Bel Kaufman -
Relaxation means releasing all concern and tension and letting the natural order of life flow through one's being.
Donald Curtis -
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
Robert Frost -
This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.
Patrick Henry -
To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.
John Irving -
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
Niccolo Machiavelli -
The family is the American fascism.
Paul Goodman -
I had a dozen years to act before starting a family, then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.
Sissy Spacek -
My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.
Fred Allen -
God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.
Frank Knox -
I would argue that television and particularly the BBC were instrumental in puffing up the Royal Family to a level where they were inflated out of all, all proportion to their relevance on the national scene.
Andrew Morton -
Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.
Max Lerner -
Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.
Vartan Gregorian -
Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.
John Selden -
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.
Louisa May Alcott -
A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
Susan Sontag -
I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.
Al Roker -
For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.
Gao Xingjian -
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
Lewis Mumford -
I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.
Billy Sherwood -
Those who think the family has had its day should think again.
Eva Burrows -
Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.
Stella Benson -
The last step in parental love involves the release of the beloved; the willing cutting of the cord that would otherwise keep the child in a state of emotional dependence.
Lewis Mumford -
Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.
M. F. K. Fisher -
Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.
Benjamin Spock -
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
George Herbert -
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
Thomas Jefferson -
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
Reinhold Niebuhr -
I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year.
Anna Chlumsky -
Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin -
Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
Richard Bach -
I got caught kissing. Like by my parents. It was so horrible. It's so embarrassing, I'm blushing.
Katie Holmes -
Stay close to the young... and a little rubs off.
Alan Jay Lerner -
Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; The good, the true, the tender - these form the wealth of home.
Sarah Josepha Hale -
Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.
David Frost -
Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.
Kin Hubbard -
A 'good' family, it seems, is one that used to be better.
Cleveland Amory -
Your basic extended family today includes your ex-husband or -wife, your ex's new mate, your new mate, possibly your new mate's ex and any new mate that your new mate's ex has acquired.
Delia Ephron -
Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.
Diane Ackerman -
So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the familiy parrotto the town gossip
Will Rogers -
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth.
Avery Brundage -
Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.
Jacques Delille -
Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.
Elizabeth Fishel -
The government is becoming the family of last resort.
Jerry Brown -
Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.
Van Wyck Brooks -
A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!
Philip Roth -
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other
Freya Stark -
Adults are just children who earn money.
Kenneth Branagh -
The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.
Francis Picabia -
Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the bruised shins of the playground, the small fears that come with dusk, the streets and squares and monuments and shops that constitute one's first universe.
Henry Anatole Grunwald -
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.
Kenny Ausubel -
There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.
Hazel Scott -
I think if I weren't so beautiful, maybe, I'd have more character
Jerry Hall -
A man who envies our family is a man who needs help.
Yeardley Smith -
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
Benjamin Franklin -
The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.
M. Russell Ballard -
When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents.
Allan Sherman -
Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.
Stephen Carter -
As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
Josh Billings -
In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.
Alfred Adler -
That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
August Strindberg -
Today the family is being attacked and defended with equal vehemence.
Mark Poster -
And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families
Senator John Kerry -
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
George Santayana -
How do you survive Christmas? You drink a lot. And drink a lot, right. Drink a lot and drink a lot.
Christina Applegate -
There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.
Winston Churchill -
Friends are the family we choose for ourselves
Edna Buchanan -
I'm oftentimes called away from my family... it's rather hard for me to be away from them. We're very close.
Benjamin Bratt -
The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father.
Eleanor Roosevelt -
This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.
Aristotle -
A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life
Irish Sayings -
Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.
Earl Wilson -
The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them
Arnold Bennett -
The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family: We remain connected, even against our wills.
Anthony Brandt -
A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.
Latin Proverb -
My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.".
Jim Fox -
The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it
Margaret Sanger -
Family the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
August Strindberg -
In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions.
Nathaniel Branden -
We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
Barbra Streisand -
My father was often angry when I was most like him.
Lillian Hellman -
You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
Erma Bombeck -
The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.
Barbara de Angelis -
A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, "Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone".
Aesop -
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
Joseph Addison -
It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.
Confucius -
Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.
John Burroughs -
The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfilment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadnes
Giuseppe Mazzini -
We should realize that the average family in America spends five minutes a week on politics.
Celinda Lake -
A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.
Helen Keller -
Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.
Dennis Prager -
I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.
Helen Keller -
Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
Elizabeth II -
I was the first actress in the family, and I am still the only actress in the family. I shouldn't be saying it, but it slipped out!
Eva Gabor -
Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.
Robert Frost -
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
Robert Frost -
I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard, ... Just listening to my father . . . So just basically following that and following my heart.
Paris Hilton -
It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
Jean de La Fontaine -
American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.
Camille Paglia -
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
George Bernard Shaw -
Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hasten when you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.
Og Mandino -
An angry father is most cruel towards himself.
Publilius Syrus -
In a husband there is only a man; in a married woman there is a man, a father, and mother, and a woman.
Honore de Balzac -
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
Marcelene Cox -
Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
Marcelene Cox -
Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.
David Ogilvy -
They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
Anne Tyler -
Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.
Ruth Nanda Anshen -
I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.
William S. Burroughs -
My family is like a sanctuary to me. I always turn to them for support and strength. I take comfort in knowing no matter which path I choose, my family stands behind me.
Benjamin Bratt -
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
Margaret Mead -
Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have you declared legally insane in order to gain control of your estate.
Woody Allen -
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
Woody Allen -
By profession I am a Soldier & take pride in that fact, but I am prouder to be a father.
Douglas MacArthur -
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
George Burns -
A great part of the pleasure of travel lies in the fulfillment of early wishes to escape the family and especially the father
Sigmund Freud -
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
Bill Cosby -
Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light.
Jennie Jerome Churchill -
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
Victor Hugo -
The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothing to do with the family a woman is born to. It is a desire to know and be known by someone who shares blood and body, history and dreams.
Elizabeth Fishel -
The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
Lyndon B. Johnson -
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
Edgar Watson Howe -
The best way to relieve families from time to time is to let them keep some of their own money.
George Bush -
The presidency is temporary - but the family is permanent.
Yvonne de Gaulle