Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

family

Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family. 2 thoughts from Grace Kelly

I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity. 12 other views from Gene Tierney

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one. 9 wisdom & wit from Pope John XXIII

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. 52 views from George Eliot

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American. 5 quotes from Vivien Leigh

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. 57 more quotes from Will Rogers

The family is the first essential cell of human society. 9 other quotes from Pope John XXIII

The family is the nucleus of civilization. 25 wisdom & wit from Will Durant

A man should never neglect his family for business. 23 sayings from Walt Disney

The family is one of nature's masterpieces. 46 more quotes from George Santayana

The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family. 30 other thoughts from Gustave Flaubert

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews. 14 views from Heinrich Heine

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones. 5 other quotes from Anwar Sadat

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything. 9 other quotes from Willa Cather

We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together. 23 more wisdom & wit from Walt Disney

I can't imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What's a home and family for if it's not the center of one's life? 14 other quotes from Loretta Young

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops. 3 wisdom & wit from Cary Grant

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. 21 more sayings from George Burns

God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease. 2 more thoughts from Frank Knox

No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family. 2 more wisdom & wit from J. Edgar Hoover

Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God. 2 other quotes from Christopher Love

All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women. 24 quotes from W. C. Fields

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial. 33 sayings from Erma Bombeck

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state. 32 sayings from Michel de Montaigne

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom. 32 wisdom & wit from Michel de Montaigne

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them. 31 more quotes from Gertrude Stein

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life. 7 sayings from Walter Bagehot

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know. 8 other sayings from Dwight L. Moody

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family. 31 thoughts from Gertrude Stein

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back. 45 more wisdom & wit from John Ruskin

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage. 33 more thoughts from Erma Bombeck

I talked about my family, my family's so important. 5 quotes from Jim Valvano

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have. 3 more quotes from Ring Lardner

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family. 11 sayings from Clare Boothe Luce

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. 50 thoughts from Robert Frost

By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family. 9 sayings from Lawrence Welk

We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument. 9 other views from Lawrence Welk

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces. 9 quotes from Anthony Trollope

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them. 42 wisdom & wit from Josh Billings

The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself. 52 other wisdom & wit from Gilbert K. Chesterton

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed. 10 other quotes from Patrick Henry

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. 8 more wisdom & wit from Joseph Brodsky

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general. 10 quotes from Novalis

When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places. 9 other views from John Cheever

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. 45 other sayings from Bertrand Russell

My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys. 8 sayings from Bobby Darin

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. 14 thoughts from Joseph Joubert

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. 13 more quotes from Fred Allen

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion. 10 quotes from Patrick Henry

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. 11 quotes from David Ogilvy

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone. 6 quotes from Ashley Montagu

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types. 20 more views from Christopher Lasch

The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family. 20 more sayings from Christopher Lasch

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system. 20 views from Christopher Lasch

I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church. 8 quotes from Paul Lynde

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life. 20 more thoughts from Christopher Lasch

I am the family face flesh perishes, I live on. 14 quotes from Thomas Hardy

A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. 47 quotes from George Orwell

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction. 20 views from Christopher Lasch

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent. 11 thoughts from Thomas Mann

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. 15 wisdom & wit from Reinhold Niebuhr

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes. 20 wisdom & wit from Christopher Lasch

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning. 117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. 115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw

A happy family is but an earlier heaven. 115 wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw

I would rather start a family than finish one. 18 more quotes from Don Marquis

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold. 14 wisdom & wit from Andre Maurois

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. 3 sayings from Gracie Allen

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. 115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. 3 more quotes from Alex Haley

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. 14 other thoughts from Ogden Nash

The family is the school of duties - founded on love. 4 quotes from Felix Adler

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business. 24 other sayings from Lyndon B. Johnson

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. 3 more quotes from Alex Haley

The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it. 2 other wisdom & wit from Margaret Sanger

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death. 10 other sayings from Robert Benchley

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege. 8 quotes from Charles Kuralt

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. 21 other quotes from Leo Tolstoy

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family. 27 quotes from Kin Hubbard

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. 15 thoughts from Cyril Connolly

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving! 6 wisdom & wit from O. Henry

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle. 24 more wisdom & wit from Henri Frederic Amiel

Actors are one family over the entire world. 30 quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt

Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own. 6 more wisdom & wit from Rutherford B. Hayes

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. 100 thoughts from Oscar Wilde

I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love. 5 wisdom & wit from Michael Landon