Quote: A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative. Author: George Ade 1866-1944, American Humorist, Playwright
Quote: The family is the school of duties... founded on love. Author: Felix Adler 1851-1933, American Educator, Social Critic
Quote: A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone. Author: Aesop 620-560 BC, Greek Fabulist
Quote: Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture. Author: Amos Bronson Alcott 1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer
Quote: Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from others. As long as its spell lasts, the only in-between which can insert itself between two lovers is the child, love's own product. The child, this in-between to which the lovers now are related and which they hold in common, is representative of the world in that it also separates them; it is an indication that they will insert a new world into the existing world. Through the child, it is as though the lovers return to the world from which their love had expelled them. But this new worldliness, the possible result and the only possibly happy ending of a love affair, is, in a sense, the end of love, which must either overcome the partners anew or be transformed into another mode of belonging together. Author: Hannah Arendt 1906-1975, German-born American Political Philosopher
Quote: Cruel is the strife of brothers. Author: Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher
Quote: Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof. Author: Richard Bach 1936-, American Author
Quote: He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
Quote: You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family. Author: Anita Baker American Singer, Entertainer
Quote: The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart. Author: Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer
Quote: There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. Author: Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer
Quote: Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive. Author: Stella Benson 1892-1933, British Actor
Quote: A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. [Proverbs 18:19] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates. Author: Erma Bombeck 1927-, American Author, Humorist
Quote: Other things may change us, but we start and end with family. Author: Anthony Brandt American Composer, Editor
Quote: The government is becoming the family of last resort. Author: Jerry Brown
Quote: A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. Author: Buddha 568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism
Quote: Never did I think that I became family entertainment. Author: Jimmy Buffet American Songwriter, Singer
Quote: Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. Author: George Burns 1896-1996, American Comedy Actor
Quote: I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous. Author: William S. Burroughs 1914-1997, American Writer
Quote: The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself. Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton 1874-1936, British Author
Quote: The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values. Author: Charles Caleb Colton 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer
Quote: It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family. Author: Confucius BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher
Quote: The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety. Author: Confucius BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher
Quote: The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. Author: Confucius BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher
Quote: Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best. Author: Joseph Cook
Quote: Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time wondering when a child will turn in. Author: Ted Cook
Quote: If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family. Author: Quentin Crisp 1908-, British Author
Quote: Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends. Author: Jacques Delille 1738-1813, French Poet
Quote: Family is the most important thing in the world. Author: Princess of Wales Diana 1961-1997, Wife of Charles, Prince of Wales
Quote: Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy. Author: Charles Dickens 1812-1870, British Novelist
Quote: The family is the nucleus of civilization. Author: William J. Durant 1885-1981, American Historian, Essayist
Quote: He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Quote: The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology. Author: James G. Frazer 1854-1941, Scottish Classicist, Anthropologist
Quote: The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended -- and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended. Author: Robert Frost 1875-1963, American Poet
Quote: What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap. Author: Clarissa Graves
Quote: The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and insecurity, but the wordless commitment of families, which takes as its model mother-love. This is not to say that fathers have no place, for father-love, with its driving for self-improvement and discipline, is also essential to survival, but that uncorrected father-love, father-love as it were practiced by both parents, is a way to annihilation. Author: Germaine Greer 1939-, Australian Feminist Writer
Quote: Where can a person be better than in the bosom of their family. Author: Marmontel Gretry
Quote: Families are about love overcoming emotional torture. Author: Matt Groening 1954-, American Writer, Cartoonist, Animator, Producer, Screenwriter
Quote: Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender- these form the wealth of home. Author: Sarah J. Hale 1788-1879, American Author
Quote: Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people. Author: Alex Haley 1921-1992, American Writer
Quote: 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. Author: Jane Howard
Quote: The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way. Author: Louise Kapp Howe 1934-, American Author, Editor
Quote: My family begins with me, your family ends with you. Author: Iphicrates
Quote: Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections? Author: Elizabeth Janeway 1913-, American Author, Critic
Quote: The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. Author: Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826, Third President of the USA
Quote: As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. Author: John Paul II 1920, Polish-Born Italian Pope
Quote: The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family. Author: Paul Johnson 1928-, British Journalist
Quote: Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness. Author: John Keats 1795-1821, British Poet
Quote: The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmother. A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt and Helpists know it. They have jumped into the void left by the disappearance of morbid old ladies from the bosom of the American family. Author: Florence King 1936-, American Author, Critic
Quote: When I do something in my family because I really enjoy it, then my duty has become my pleasure. And it is a pleasure for all the people around me. Author: Dr. Jess Lair American Professor, Counselor
Quote: A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock. Author: Charles Lamb 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic
Quote: The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have. Author: Ring Lardner 1885-1933, American Writer
Quote: With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping ''homeliness'' entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all ''sentiment'' is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called ''the Public,'' the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state. Author: Wyndham Lewis 1882-1957, British Author, Painter
Quote: All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother. Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
Quote: So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it. Author: Haniel Long 1888-1956, American Author, Poet, Journalist
Quote: Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family. Author: Clare Boothe Luce 1903-1987, American Diplomat, Writer
Quote: As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all. A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal? Author: Rose Macaulay 1881-1958, British Novelist, Essayist
Quote: I would rather start a family than finish one. Author: Don Marquis 1878-1937, American Humorist, Journalist
Quote: The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness which it is given to man to taste upon earth are, thanks to this angel, the joys of the Family. Author: Giuseppe Mazzini 1805-1872, Italian Patriot, Writer
Quote: Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone. Author: Phyllis Mcginley 1905-1978, American Poet, Author
Quote: Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation. Author: Margaret Mead 1901-1978, American Anthropologist
Quote: Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself. Author: H. L. Mencken 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist
Quote: There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom. Author: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist
Quote: There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state. Author: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist
Quote: A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know. Author: Dwight L. Moody 1837-1899, American Evangelist
Quote: Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. Author: Martin Mull
Quote: Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice. Author: Reinhold Niebuhr 1892-1971, American Theologian, Historian
Quote: Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty. Author: Ann Oakley 1944-, British Sociologist, Author
Quote: The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come. Author: Sandra Day O'connor 1930-, First American Woman Supreme Court Judge
Quote: A brother is a friend provided by nature. Author: Legouve Pere
Quote: The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous. Author: Francis Picabia 1878-1953, French Painter, Poet
Quote: In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth. Author: V. S. Pritchett 1900-, British Author, Critic
Quote: None but a mule denies his family. Author: Arabian Proverb Sayings of Arabian Origin
Quote: All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them. Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin
Quote: Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently. Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin
Quote: In a broken nest there are few whole eggs. Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin
Quote: Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin
Quote: A small family is soon provided for. Author: English Proverb Sayings of British Origin
Quote: Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family. Author: Jewish Proverb Sayings of Jewish Origin
Quote: One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. Author: Jewish Proverb Sayings of Jewish Origin
Quote: When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. Author: Jewish Proverb Sayings of Jewish Origin
Quote: One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We have been taught to accept the myth not as an heroic ideal, something good, brave, and nearly impossible to fulfil, but as the very fiber of normal life. Given most families and most marriages, the belief seems admirable but foolhardily. Author: Jonathan Raban 1942-, British Author, Critic
Quote: In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm. Author: Isaac Rosenfeld
Quote: For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands. Author: Christina Rossetti 1830-1894, British Poet, Lyricist
Quote: The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family. Author: George Santayana 1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet
Quote: The family is one of nature's masterpieces. Author: George Santayana 1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet
Quote: Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life. Author: Charles M. Schultz 1922-, American Cartoonist, Creator of ''Peanuts''
Quote: The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: He didn't dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life. Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices. Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it. Author: Susan Sontag 1933-, American Essayist
Quote: Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other. Author: Freya Stark 1893-1993, British Travel Writer
Quote: Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described --and will be, after our deaths --by each of the family members who believe they know us. Author: Gloria Steinem 1934-, American Feminist Writer, Editor
Quote: The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government. Author: Gloria Steinem 1934-, American Feminist Writer, Editor
Quote: Family... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children. Author: J. August Strindberg 1849-1912, Swedish Dramatist, Novelist, Poet
Quote: A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living. Author: Charles Swindoll American Pastor, Author
Quote: Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her. Author: J. M. Synge 1871-1909, Irish Poet, Dramatist
Quote: The hatred of relatives is the most violent. Author: Publius Cornelius Tacitus 55-117 AD, Roman Historian
Quote: He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows. Author: Jeremy Taylor 1613-1667, British Churchman, Writer
Quote: All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Author: Count Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910, Russian Novelist, Philosopher
Quote: Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: Women's liberationists spread the word that the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. Author: R. Emmett Tyell
Quote: Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots. Author: William Butler Yeats 1865-1939, Irish Poet, Playwright.
Quote: People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace. Author: Zig Ziglar American Sales Trainer, Author, Motivational Speaker
Quote: My family is really boring. They have a coffee table book called 'Pictures We Took Just to Use Up the Rest of the Film Author: Penelope Lombard
Quote: To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right. Author: Confucius
Quote: I can get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror and my family can look at me too and that's all that matters Author: Lance Armstrong
Quote: The principle of using interactivity as a creativity-builder is not restricted to computer games. Once we become fully conscious of this principle, we can find ways to become more interactive everywhere. We can make conversations with our family and friends more interactive than they once were. The more thoughtful our questions get to be, the more interactive the conversations Author: Steve Chandler
Quote: Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive Author: Stella Benson
Quote: I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on Author: Ugo Betti
Quote: we are each other's business: we are each other's magnitude and bond Author: Gwedolyn Brooks
Quote: I believe that more unhappiness comes from this source than from any other--I mean from the attempt to prolong family connections unduly and to make people hang together artificially who would never naturally do so Author: Samuel Butler
Quote: As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there Author: John Donne
Quote: There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent. Author: T. S. Eliot
Quote: Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Quote: Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material Author: Lee Iacocca
Quote: There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond Author: James Earl Jones
Quote: I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive Author: Robert Kennedy
Quote: As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals--or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all. A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal? Author: Rose Macaulay
Quote: The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfilment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness which it is given to man to taste upon earth are, thanks to this angel, the joys of the Family Author: Giuseppe Mazzini
Quote: As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live Author: Pope John Paul III
Quote: For there is no friend like a sister In calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray, To lift one if one totters down, To strengthen whilst one stands Author: Christini Rosetti
Quote: The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to Author: Dodie Smith
Quote: All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way Author: Leo Tolstoy
Quote: If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance Author: Anonymous
Quote: 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. Author: Douglas Noel Adams
Quote: The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof. Author: Richard David Bach
Quote: One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family. Author: Robert C. Byrd
Quote: In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. Author: Tao Le Ching
Quote: 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. Author: Laurie E. Colwin
Quote: The presidency is temporary-but the family is permanent. Author: Yvonne De Gaulle
Quote: It used to take courage--indeed, it was the act of courage par excellence--to leave the comforts of home and family and go out into the world seeking adventure. Today there are fewer places to discover, and the real adventure is to stay at home. Author: Alvaro de Solva
Quote: Then Bob proposed: 'A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us!' Which all his family re-echoed. 'God bless us every one!' said Tiny Tim, the last of all. Author: Charles Dickens
Quote: 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. Author: Elizabeth II
Quote: The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended. Author: Robert Lee Frost
Quote: Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the bruised shins of the playground, the small fears that come with dusk, the streets and squares and monuments and shops that constitute one's first universe. Author: Henry Anatole Grunwald
Quote: The memories of my family outings are still a source of strength to me. I remember we'd all pile into the car---I forget what kind it was---and drive and drive. I'm not sure where we'd go, but I think there were some trees there. The smell of something was strong in the air as we played whatever sport we played. I remember a bigger, older guy we called 'Dad.' We'd eat some stuff, or not, and then I think we went home. I guess some things never leave you. Author: Jack Handey
Quote: 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. Author: Jack Handey
Quote: 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. Author: John Irving
Quote: The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business. Author: Lyndon Baines Johnson
Quote: Today's family is built like a pyramid; with all the intrafamilial rivalries, tensions, jealousies, angers, hatreds, loves and needs focused on the untrained, vulnerable, insecure, young, inexperienced and incompetent parental apex ... about whose incompetence our vaunted educational system does nothing. Author: Lawrence Kubie
Quote: Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall. Author: Max Lerner
Quote: Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures. Author: Vincent Thomas Vince Lombardi
Quote: 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. Author: Andrew H. Malcolm
Quote: Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college. Author: Tom Mason
Quote: There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison. Author: André Maurois
Quote: The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. Author: André Maurois
Quote: Modesty and unselfishness--these are the virtues which men praise--and pass by. Author: André Maurois
Quote: If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain. Author: André Maurois
Quote: 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 . Author: Pope John Paul II
Quote: 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. Author: Pope John Paul II
Quote: 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. Author: Ivy Baker Priest
Quote: History is not going to be kind to liberals. With their mindless programs, they've managed to do to Black Americans what slavery, Reconstruction, and rank racism found impossible: destroy their family and work ethic. Author: Walter Williams
Quote: The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going. Author: George Carlin
Quote: There is no such thing as fun for the whole family. Author: Jerry Seinfeld
Quote: There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones. Author: Anwar el Sadat