Family Quotes

I believe that to meet the challenge of the next century, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama, speech? in 1994
Sir v pritchett - there is nothing like a coup de foudre and...
A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
Alexander Pope
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
Pope John Paul II
The family is the country of the heart.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Friedrich wilhelm nietzsche - family love is messy, clinging, and of an...
The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
George Eliot, Middlemarch
I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
Erma Bombeck
Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.
Ruth Nanda Anshen
We are totally opposed to abortion under any circumstances. We are also opposed to abortifacient drugs and chemicals like the Pill and the IUD, and we are also opposed to all forms of birth control with the exception of natural family planning.
Judie Brown, President, American Life Lobby
The presidency is temporary - But the family is permanent.
Yvonne De Gaulle
To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have lived well.
Author Unknown
The bonds that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
Richard Bach
There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.
Tom Robbins
Ivy baker priest - any woman who has a career and a family...
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw
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 story of my boyhood and that of my brothers is important only because it could happen in any American family. It did, and will again.
Earl Eisenhowe
If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family.
Ruby Manikan
Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994.
Gene Hackman
All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Bertrand Russell
I wonder if the polite thing to do is always the right thing to do. When I met the family from Japan, they all bowed. I pretended like I was going to bow, but then I just kept going and flipped over on my back. I did this five times. I think they got the point.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
Martin Mull
Happy families are all alike every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy
Many men can make a fortune by very few can build a family.
J. S. Bryan
A family, although not a necessity, is the ultimate luxury.
Eric Pio
Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.
Vartan Gregorian
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
If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.
Unknown
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
The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other.
Andrew H. Malcolm
Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.
Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Let... others call me a hypocrite because I fired a gun in a moment of personal peril. I shall still be for strict gun control. But as long as authorities leave this society awash in drugs and guns, I will protect my family.
Carl T. Rowan, Jr.
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Chapter 1, first line
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Ogden Nash
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. Fishe
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 Lerne
A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by mother, who sees that the others get it.
Marcelene Cox