Best Quotes about Family
You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
Bombeck, Erma
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
Proverb, Jewish
The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
Beecher, Henry Ward
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.
Yeats, William Butler
Never did I think that I became family entertainment.
Buffett, Jimmy
Having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse'em, is a great tonic for a sad soul.
Erica Eisdorfer
Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.
Schulz, Charles M.
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.
Colton, Charles Caleb
You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.
Baker, Anita
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.
Niebuhr, Reinhold
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.
Steinem, Gloria
The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.
Johnson, Paul
The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius
None but a mule denies his family.
Proverb, Arabian
What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap.
Graves, Clarissa
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?
Macaulay, Rose
The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.
Confucius
I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.
Burroughs, William S.
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.
Mcginley, Phyllis
No matter where you live, brothers are brothers and sisters are sisters. The bonds that keep family close are the same no matter where you are.
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
Pritchett, V. S.
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.
Lair, Dr. Jess
They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers.
David Assael
I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.
Anna Quindlen
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy
Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender- these form the wealth of home.
Hale, Sarah J.
Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.
Benson, Stella
Caregiver: that word should weigh more than others on a page, sag it down a bit and wrinkle it, because the simple-sounding job frazzles as it consumes and depletes. Not that it's only gloomy. Caregiving offers many fringe benefits, including the sheer sensory delight of nourishing and grooming, sharing, and playing. There's something uniquely fulfilling about being a lodestar, feeling so deeply needed, and it's fun finding creative ways to gladden a loved one's life. But caregiving does buttonhole you; you're stitched in one place.
Diane Ackerman
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.
Raban, Jonathan
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.
King, Florence
I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone
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.
Lamb, Charles
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.
Frost, Robert
A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.
Moody, Dwight L.
A brother is a friend provided by nature.
Pere, Legouve
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.
Dickens, Charles
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.
Rossetti, Christina
My family begins with me, your family ends with you.
Iphicrates
The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.
O'connor, Sandra Day
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.
Mazzini, Giuseppe
The family is the school of duties... founded on love.
Adler, Felix
It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!
Ann Radcliffe
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.
Howe, Louise Kapp
Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
Mencken, H. L.
A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
Swindoll, Charles
Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.
Cook, Joseph
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.
Twain, Mark
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
Stark, Freya
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently.
Proverb, Chinese
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