Family Quotes
Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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 family is the nucleus of civilization.William James Durant
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 Warne
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
A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.Gray Davis
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.Martin Mull
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
Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.Jewish Prove
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
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.Ogden Nash
The presidency is temporary - But the family is permanent.Yvonne De Gaulle
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.Pope John Paul II
Love is this divine ingredient. It alone describes what can be our perfect relationship to our Heavenly Father and our family and neighbors, and the means by which we accomplish His work.David B. Haight
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - - The kind of atmosphere that is found in a nuturing family.Virginia Sati
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
It used to take courage - - Indeed, it was the act of courage par excellence - - To leave the comforts of home and family and go out into the world seeking adventure. Today there are fewer places to discover, and the real adventure is to stay at home.Alvaro de Solva
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
There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.Jerry Seinfeld
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
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
A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by mother, who sees that the others get it.Marcelene Cox
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
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
I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.Erma Bombeck
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
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
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.Henri - Frederic Amiel
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.George Bernard Shaw
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
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
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
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
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
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, "Families".
Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.Willa Cathe
