Family Quotes

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

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

Douglas Noel Adams

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

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

Henri - Frederic Amiel

The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.

Malcolm De Chazal

It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion.

Dalai Lama, (in exile) Associated Press, 5/14/01

I am years gone from my family and miles away... but they raid by telephone with jarring suddenness they have the cyclic constancy of a mortgage and they are inevitable and relentless, like the erosion of my remaining youth. Like certain frightening dreams, my family returns.

Jerrold Mundis

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

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

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

Vartan Gregorian

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

Ruby Manikan