Family Quotes

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

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 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

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".

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

Jewish Prove

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

Ruth Nanda Anshen

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

A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

Alexander Pope

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

Gene Hackman

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

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