family Quotes

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

Alex Haley

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

Bertrand Russell

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.

Carl Sandburg

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

Ogden Nash

The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.

Erma Bombeck

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go by any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted.

Paul Pearshall

American families have always shown remarkable resiliency, or flexible adjustment to natural, economic, and social challenges. Their strengths resemble the elasticity of a spider web, a gull's skillful flow with the wind, the regenerating power of perennial grasses, the cooperation of an ant colony, and the persistence of a stream carving canyon rocks. These are not the strengths of fixed monuments but living organisms. This resilience is not measured by wealth, muscle or efficiency but by creativity, unity, and hope. Cultivating these family strengths is critical to a thriving human community.

Ben Silliman

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

Francis Bacon

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

George Burns

As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.

John Donne

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

Margaret Mead

Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul.

Thomas Moore

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.

Evan Esar
Social Media
Our Partners
Quote of the Day App
Android app on Google Play