family
A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.
9 more views from Anthony Trollope
As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
42 wisdom & wit from Josh Billings
This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.
10 quotes from Patrick Henry
I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
10 quotes from Patrick Henry
I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
13 sayings from Fred Allen
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
14 views from Joseph Joubert
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
45 views from Bertrand Russell
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
10 views from Novalis
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
8 more quotes from Joseph Brodsky
The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
52 more sayings from Gilbert K. Chesterton
My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.
8 other thoughts from Bobby Darin
When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.
9 more quotes from John Cheever
The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
6 other views from Ashley Montagu
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
11 views from Thomas Mann
I am the family face flesh perishes, I live on.
14 views from Thomas Hardy
The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.
20 thoughts from Christopher Lasch
The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
20 other views from Christopher Lasch
The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.
20 quotes from Christopher Lasch
I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.
8 views from Paul Lynde
The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.
20 quotes from Christopher Lasch
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction.
20 quotes from Christopher Lasch
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.
15 more sayings from Reinhold Niebuhr
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.
20 quotes from Christopher Lasch
Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.
11 wisdom & wit from David Ogilvy
A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
47 other views from George Orwell
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
117 other views from Henry David Thoreau
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
3 quotes from Gracie Allen
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
14 sayings from Andre Maurois
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
115 more quotes from George Bernard Shaw
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
115 more thoughts from George Bernard Shaw
I would rather start a family than finish one.
18 other quotes from Don Marquis
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
115 other thoughts from George Bernard Shaw
The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
4 quotes from Felix Adler
The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
24 wisdom & wit from Lyndon B. Johnson
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
14 quotes from Ogden Nash
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
3 more sayings from Alex Haley
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
3 other quotes from Alex Haley
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
8 quotes from Charles Kuralt
The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.
2 more quotes from Margaret Sanger
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
24 other views from Henri Frederic Amiel
A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.
10 other views from Robert Benchley
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
6 quotes from O. Henry
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
21 quotes from Leo Tolstoy
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
15 more quotes from Cyril Connolly
Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.
27 more quotes from Kin Hubbard
I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.
5 quotes from Michael Landon
Actors are one family over the entire world.
30 sayings from Eleanor Roosevelt
Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.
6 more quotes from Rutherford B. Hayes
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
100 quotes from Oscar Wilde
So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
57 other quotes from Will Rogers
The family is the first essential cell of human society.
9 quotes from Pope John XXIII
The family is the nucleus of civilization.
25 quotes from Will Durant
Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.
2 other quotes from Grace Kelly
My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.
5 quotes from Vivien Leigh
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
52 more quotes from George Eliot
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
9 more sayings from Pope John XXIII
I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.
12 views from Gene Tierney
Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
9 more quotes from Willa Cather
A man should never neglect his family for business.
23 quotes from Walt Disney
The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.
14 views from Heinrich Heine
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
46 quotes from George Santayana
We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
23 wisdom & wit from Walt Disney
There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
5 other sayings from Anwar Sadat
The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
30 views from Gustave Flaubert
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
21 thoughts from George Burns
All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
24 more quotes from W. C. Fields
As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
13 other sayings from Chanakya
God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.
2 other wisdom & wit from Frank Knox
Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.
2 views from Christopher Love
I can't imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What's a home and family for if it's not the center of one's life?
14 other wisdom & wit from Loretta Young
No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.
2 other thoughts from J. Edgar Hoover
Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
3 other quotes from Cary Grant
I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
33 wisdom & wit from Erma Bombeck
A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
7 other quotes from Walter Bagehot
A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.
8 thoughts from Dwight L. Moody
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
33 sayings from Erma Bombeck
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
31 sayings from Gertrude Stein
Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
31 wisdom & wit from Gertrude Stein
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
32 quotes from Michel de Montaigne
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
32 other thoughts from Michel de Montaigne
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
45 wisdom & wit from John Ruskin
By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
9 views from Lawrence Welk
We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.
9 quotes from Lawrence Welk
The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.
3 quotes from Ring Lardner
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
50 quotes from Robert Frost
Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
11 views from Clare Boothe Luce
I talked about my family, my family's so important.
5 sayings from Jim Valvano