Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.
2 wisdom & wit from Grace Kelly
I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.
12 more quotes from Gene Tierney
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
9 more views from Pope John XXIII
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
52 other sayings 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 thoughts 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 other 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 quotes from Gustave Flaubert
The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.
14 quotes from Heinrich Heine
There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
5 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 thoughts 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 views from Loretta Young
Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
3 other quotes from Cary Grant
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
21 views 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 views 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 wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit 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 more views from Michel de Montaigne
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
32 quotes from Michel de Montaigne
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
31 wisdom & wit 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 other views 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 thoughts from Dwight L. Moody
Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
31 quotes from Gertrude Stein
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
45 other thoughts from John Ruskin
I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
33 more wisdom & wit from Erma Bombeck
I talked about my family, my family's so important.
5 more sayings from Jim Valvano
The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.
3 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 quotes 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 quotes from Robert Frost
By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
9 other 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 sayings from Lawrence Welk
A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.
9 wisdom & wit from Anthony Trollope
As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
42 sayings 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 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 quotes from Patrick Henry
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
8 quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Novalis
When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.
9 more quotes from John Cheever
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
45 quotes from Bertrand Russell
My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.
8 wisdom & wit from Bobby Darin
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
14 more sayings 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 other sayings 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 thoughts 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 quotes from Christopher Lasch
The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.
20 other views from Christopher Lasch
The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.
20 quotes 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 quotes 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 other quotes from George Orwell
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction.
20 other quotes from Christopher Lasch
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
11 more quotes 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 quotes 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 other views 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 sayings from Henry David Thoreau
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
115 views from George Bernard Shaw
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
115 views from George Bernard Shaw
I would rather start a family than finish one.
18 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 other wisdom & wit 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 thoughts from George Bernard Shaw
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
3 thoughts 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 more views 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 quotes from Lyndon B. Johnson
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
3 quotes from Alex Haley
The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.
2 quotes 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 quotes from Robert Benchley
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
8 other wisdom & wit from Charles Kuralt
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
21 quotes from Leo Tolstoy
Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.
27 more 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 more views 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 other thoughts from O. Henry
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
24 other sayings from Henri Frederic Amiel
Actors are one family over the entire world.
30 other thoughts 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 quotes from Rutherford B. Hayes
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
100 other views from Oscar Wilde
I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.
5 other sayings from Michael Landon