Family Quotes
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 family is the nucleus of civilization.William James Durant
Some things you do because you want to. Some things you do because of the needs of others in your family.Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 10 - 06 - 05
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.Bertrand Russell
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
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
Many men can make a fortune by very few can build a family.J. S. Bryan
All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.Leo Tolstoy
Love is this divine ingredient. It alone describes what can be our perfect relationship to our Heavenly Father and our family and neighbors, and the means by which we accomplish His work.David B. Haight
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
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
Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality - - Do whatever makes the most money.Barry Schwartz
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
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
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
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.Ogden Nash
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
It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.Confucius
The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.Mary Catherine Bateson
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Chapter 1, first line
A married man with a family will do anything for money.Charles De Talleyrand
It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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.Max Lerne
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".
Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.J. S. Bryan
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
I believe that to meet the challenge of the next century, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind.His Holiness the Dalai Lama, speech? in 1994
The family is the country of the heart.Giuseppe Mazzini
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.Isaac Rosenfeld
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close - Knit family in another city.George Burns
To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have lived well.Author Unknown
A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by mother, who sees that the others get it.Marcelene Cox
The family - That dear octopus from whese tentacles we never quite escape nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.Dodie Smith
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
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
Happy families are all alike every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.Leo Tolstoy
