Family Quotes

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

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

Henri - Frederic Amiel

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

Helen Kelle

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

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

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

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

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

Erma Bombeck

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close - Knit family in another city.

George Burns

It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.

Confucius

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

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

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

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

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

A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

Alexander Pope

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Martin Mull

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

Vartan Gregorian

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

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

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

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

Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.

Ruth Nanda Anshen

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

Ruby Manikan

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

A married man with a family will do anything for money.

Charles De Talleyrand

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

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

Ogden Nash