Family Quotes

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.

Mario Puzo

My life is -- as if each person I know was born with a beautiful book with golden edges on each page -- and each of us can read the language of our own book -- containing our own unique values, ideas, insights and direction, yet we cannot read the language of anyone else's book, and they cannot read our book. And, then, you and I started talking and I discovered that while the words in your book are different from mine, the language of your book is exactly the same as mine -- and words flow and flow between us without effort. Then, I looked closer in my book and I saw beautiful, happy pictures of you and your family...and I smiled

Laura Teresa Marquez

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.

Jerry B. Jenkins

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back

Earl Wilson

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires

Marcelene Cox

What's going on here is a redefinition of Christmas as a time of family celebration rather than as a time of the community faithful celebrating the birth of the savior...There is a risk that we will lose one more of our Christian rituals, one that's at the heart of our faith.

Robert Johnston

Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.

Pope John XXIII

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

George Bernard Shaw

At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family.

Jack Bowman

Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale.

Oliver Goldsmith

The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other

Charles Caleb Colton

We have been told, O Krishna, that people whose family traditions are destroyed necessarily dwell in hell for a long time.

Bhagavad Gita

I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don't know your history, if you don't know your family, who are you?

Mary Pipher

While I am proud of a number of accomplishments, there are real costs to being unreasonable. Long hours. Too little time with family. A near incapacity for, as they say, stopping and smelling the roses

Eli Broad

I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one person at a time - just one, one, one. So you begin. I began - I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand....The same thing goes for you, the same thing in your family, the same thing in your church, your community. Just begin - one, one, one.

Mother Teresa