Family Quotes

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

Family means too much, Friends are too valuable, And life is too short, To put - Off sharing with people, How much they really mean to you, And pursuing whatever it is that makes you happy.

Unknown

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

Anthony Brandt

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Warren Gamaliel Harding

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

Jerry Seinfeld

If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family.

Ruby Manikan

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

Erma Bombeck

Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

Martin Mull

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

Henri - Frederic Amiel

Happy families are all alike every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy

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 family is the country of the heart.

Giuseppe Mazzini

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.

Buddha

Some things you do because you want to. Some things you do because of the needs of others in your family.

Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 10 - 06 - 05

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

A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.

Gray Davis

Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.

Jewish Prove

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

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

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

Elizabeth II

The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors.

Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, February 23, 1775

The family seems to have two predominant functions to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.

Donald G. Smith

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

William James Durant

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 place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

Bertrand Russell

Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994.

Gene Hackman

Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality - - Do whatever makes the most money.

Barry Schwartz

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

Jerry Seinfeld

A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

Alexander Pope

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

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

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

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family fued.

Helen Kelle

It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.

Vartan Gregorian

A healthy family is sacred territory.

Unknown

It is about a socialist, anti - Family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

Pat Robertson, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993