Family Quotes
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.Ogden Nash
The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.Mary Catherine Bateson
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
Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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
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
Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.Vartan Gregorian
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
Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college.Tom Masson
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
Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.Ruth Nanda Anshen
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
All writers - All people - Have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half - Forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.Sir V Pritchett
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.Bertrand Russell
Europe is spreading its wings. In freedom. In prosperity. And in peace. It is a truly proud moment for the European Union. It is a triumph for liberty and democracy. To our new members I say: ? Warmly welcome to our family?. Our new Europe is born.Anders Fogh Rasmussen, (Prime Minister of Denmark) Family photo after the European Council meeting in Copenhagen, 13 December 20
Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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
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".
A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.Gray Davis
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
That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities - That sense of a family being like a kitchen midden layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one - Dimensional.Laurie E. Colwin
Having a place to go - Is a home. Having someone to love - Is a family. Having both - Is a blessing.Donna Hedges
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
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
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
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
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
The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.George Eliot, Middlemarch
The family - That dear octopus from whese tentacles we never quite escape nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.Dodie Smith
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
It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.Confucius
There is nothing like a coup de foudre and absorption in family responsibility for maturing the male and pulling his scattered wits together.Sir V Pritchett
Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.J. S. Bryan
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 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
Happy families are all alike every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.Leo Tolstoy
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
