Quotes About Family
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
Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they usually do a good pruning job.
- O.A. Battista
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
- Ogden Nash
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
- Helen Keller
Oh, to be only half as wonderful as my child thought I was when he was small and only half as stupid as my teenager now thinks I am.
- Rebecca Richards
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
Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
- Elizabeth Stone
When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.
- Joyce Brothers
The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman.
- Mexican Proverb
Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.
- Dean Koontz in "Frankenstein Book 2: City of Night"
In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.
- Margaret Laurence
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
Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.
- Nancy Mitford
Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.
- Anthony Brandt
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
- Thomas Jefferson
There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained.
- Winston Churchill
The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.
- Dodie Smith
The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you.
- Kendall Hailey, The Day I Became an Autodidact
In time of test, family is best.
- Burmese Proverb
Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.
- Marsha Norman
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