Family Quotes
The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family We remain connected, even against our wills.Anthony Brandt
The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.George Eliot, Middlemarch
Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.Ruth Nanda Anshen
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
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.Martin Mull
The family is the nucleus of civilization.William James Durant
Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.J. S. Bryan
I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.Erma Bombeck
Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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 family is the country of the heart.Giuseppe Mazzini
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
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
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
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
It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.Confucius
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
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 unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.Ogden Nash
Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.Charles Dudley Warne
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
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
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
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
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
Having a place to go - Is a home. Having someone to love - Is a family. Having both - Is a blessing.Donna Hedges
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
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
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.Anthony Brandt
It is about a socialist, anti - Family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.Pat Robertson, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
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
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - - The kind of atmosphere that is found in a nuturing family.Virginia Sati
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
There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.Jerry Seinfeld
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
