Family Quotes

In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.

Isaac Rosenfeld

The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - They have preservatives.

Calvin Trillin

The presidency is temporary - But the family is permanent.

Yvonne De Gaulle

Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.

J. S. Bryan

The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

Thomas Jefferson

Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.

Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003

Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.

Mother Teresa, in her Nobel lecture

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!

Joachim Du Bellay, Sonnet de Regrets

We falsely attribute to men a determined character - Putting together all their yesterdays - And averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - It is worse than a large family - He is the silent poor indeed.

Henry David Thoreau

A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by mother, who sees that the others get it.

Marcelene Cox

Having a place to go - Is a home. Having someone to love - Is a family. Having both - Is a blessing.

Donna Hedges