Family Quotes

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

"A family spirit is not always synonymous with family life. Bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh makes for brothers, sisters and relatives, who may be as distant as strangers in a foreign land."

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

"A father's authority is limited to his own family."

"A happy family is but an earlier heaven."

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

"Actors are one family over the entire world."

"Airing the family's laundry can make people upset."

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

"All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later."

"All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race - racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic - what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race."

"America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home."

"Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family."

"As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it."

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

"As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we were kind of a project family. I started out as a painter, and then painting led to cinema, and in cinema, you get to build so many things, or help build them."

"As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family."

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

"Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times."

"Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused funds from your bank account, for example, and transferred them to some potentially useful purpose like helping a family buy a home or send a kid to college."

"Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis."

"Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family."

"Children are the keys of paradise."

"Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom."

"Dollywood is a family park, and all families are welcome. We do have a policy about profanity or controversial messages on clothing or signs. It is to protect the individual wearing or carrying them, as well as to keep down fights or problems by those opposed to it at the park."

"Don't focus on the negativity. Focus on the positivity and the people that want you to do well; then, do it for them and for yourself. Sometimes I do things for myself. Sometimes I do things for my family. Sometimes I do things for my friends."

"Don't worry about the pressure or the responsibility. Just live in it, have fun, and when everything seems to be going right, just stay humble and remember your family."

"Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted."

"Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness."

"Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am."

"Family is the most important thing in the world."

"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."

"Family preparedness has been a long-established welfare principle."

"Family to me is the most important thing."

"Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth. It is a matter of desire, diligence and determination to see one's family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters."

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

"First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that."

"For me, it's about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It's where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that's very important to me."

"Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed - for the most part, every family's got them."

"Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family."

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

"God has established three institutions within human society: the family, the state, and the church. Each institution has a sphere of authority with jurisdictional limits that must be respected."

"God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion."

"Gold is a great thing to sew into your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but I think civilized people don't buy gold, they invest in productive businesses."

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

"Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us."

"Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person."