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.

I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

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.

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

The family is the first essential cell of human society.

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

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

We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

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?

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.

Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.

All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.

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

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

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

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

I talked about my family, my family's so important.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

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.

By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.

We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

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.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

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

When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

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

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

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.

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.

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

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.

I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

I am the family face flesh perishes, I live on.

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

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction.

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

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.

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

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

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

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.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.