Family Quotes

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

Jerry Seinfeld

Happy families are all alike every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy

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

A married man with a family will do anything for money.

Charles De Talleyrand

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

Henri - Frederic Amiel

Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. ... Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other.

Ivy Baker Priest

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 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

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