Family Quotes
Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.Jewish Prove
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
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
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.Haniel Long
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
A family, although not a necessity, is the ultimate luxury.Eric Pio
The story of my boyhood and that of my brothers is important only because it could happen in any American family. It did, and will again.Earl Eisenhowe
Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003
Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994.Gene Hackman
Having a place to go - Is a home. Having someone to love - Is a family. Having both - Is a blessing.Donna Hedges
A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.Alexander Pope
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
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.Pope John Paul II
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 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
Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.George Eliot, Middlemarch
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
The presidency is temporary - But the family is permanent.Yvonne De Gaulle
Let... others call me a hypocrite because I fired a gun in a moment of personal peril. I shall still be for strict gun control. But as long as authorities leave this society awash in drugs and guns, I will protect my family.Carl T. Rowan, Jr.
I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.Erma Bombeck
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.Alvaro de Solva
Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college.Tom Masson
There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.Tom Robbins
Family means too much, Friends are too valuable, And life is too short, To put - Off sharing with people, How much they really mean to you, And pursuing whatever it is that makes you happy.Unknown
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.Andrew H. Malcolm
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.Buddha
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
It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion.Dalai Lama, (in exile) Associated Press, 5/14/01
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.Martin Mull
There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.Jerry Seinfeld
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.Elizabeth II
Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.Vartan Gregorian
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
Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.Elias Boudinot
