Quotes about family

"Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender- these form the wealth of home."

Hale, Sarah J. on family   

"Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people."

Haley, Alex on family   

"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."

Howard, Jane on family
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"The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way."

Howe, Louise Kapp on family   

"My family begins with me, your family ends with you."

Iphicrates on family   

"Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?"

Janeway, Elizabeth on family   

"The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family."

Jefferson, Thomas on family
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"As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live."

John Paul II on family
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"The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family."

Johnson, Paul on family
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"Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children."

Johnson, Samuel on family   

"The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness."

Keats, John on family   

"The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmother. A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt and Helpists know it. They have jumped into the void left by the disappearance of morbid old ladies from the bosom of the American family."

King, Florence on family   

"When I do something in my family because I really enjoy it, then my duty has become my pleasure. And it is a pleasure for all the people around me."

Lair, Dr. Jess on family   

"A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock."

Lamb, Charles on family   

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

Lardner, Ring on family
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"With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state."

Lewis, Wyndham on family   

"All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother."

Lincoln, Abraham on family
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"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."

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

Luce, Clare Boothe on family   

"As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all. A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal?"

Macaulay, Rose on family   

"I would rather start a family than finish one."

Marquis, Don on family   

"The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness which it is given to man to taste upon earth are, thanks to this angel, the joys of the Family."

Mazzini, Giuseppe on family   

"Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone."

Mcginley, Phyllis on family
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"Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation."

Mead, Margaret on family   

"Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself."

Mencken, H. L. on family   

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on family   

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on family   

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

Moody, Dwight L. on family   

"Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain."

Mull, Martin on family   

"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."

Niebuhr, Reinhold on family   

"Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty."

Oakley, Ann on family   

"The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come."

O'connor, Sandra Day on family   

"A brother is a friend provided by nature."

Pere, Legouve on family   

"The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous."

Picabia, Francis on family   

"In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth."

Pritchett, V. S. on family   

"None but a mule denies his family."

Proverb, Arabian on family   

"All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them."

Proverb, Chinese on family
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"Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently."

Proverb, Chinese on family
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"In a broken nest there are few whole eggs."

Proverb, Chinese on family
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"Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head."

Proverb, Chinese on family
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