Family Quotes
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
Many men can make a fortune by very few can build a family.J. S. Bryan
I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family fued.Helen Kelle
All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.Leo Tolstoy
Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.J. S. Bryan
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
Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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, Sonnet de Regrets
A married man with a family will do anything for money.Charles De Talleyrand
If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family.Ruby Manikan
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.Vartan Gregorian
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
There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.Jerry Seinfeld
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 family is the nucleus of civilization.William James Durant
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
A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by mother, who sees that the others get it.Marcelene Cox
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
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.Bertrand Russell
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".
Happy families are all alike every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.Leo Tolstoy
The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.Mary Catherine Bateson
The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.Thomas Jefferson
Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.Elias Boudinot
The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.Malcolm De Chazal
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
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
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separate.Ulysses S. Grant
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
