family
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
I would rather start a family than finish one.
18 quotes from Don Marquis
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
14 sayings from Andre Maurois
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
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 other quotes from Gracie Allen
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
The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
4 more quotes from Felix Adler
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
3 quotes from Alex Haley
The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
24 quotes from Lyndon B. Johnson
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
3 other thoughts from Alex Haley
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
Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.
27 other quotes from Kin Hubbard
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
15 wisdom & wit from Cyril Connolly
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
8 other sayings from Charles Kuralt
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
21 other views from Leo Tolstoy
A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.
10 more quotes from Robert Benchley
The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.
2 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 more quotes from Henri Frederic Amiel
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 quotes from Rutherford B. Hayes
Actors are one family over the entire world.
30 wisdom & wit from Eleanor Roosevelt
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
100 wisdom & wit from Oscar Wilde
I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.
5 thoughts from Michael Landon
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
9 wisdom & wit from Pope John XXIII
I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.
12 quotes from Gene Tierney
The family is the nucleus of civilization.
25 other thoughts from Will Durant
The family is the first essential cell of human society.
9 more quotes from Pope John XXIII
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 other thoughts from Vivien Leigh
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
52 wisdom & wit from George Eliot
So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
57 views from Will Rogers
Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.
2 more quotes from Grace Kelly
The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.
14 more thoughts from Heinrich Heine
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 sayings from Walt Disney
We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
23 quotes from Walt Disney
There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
5 more wisdom & wit from Anwar Sadat
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
46 other quotes from George Santayana
The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
30 other quotes from Gustave Flaubert
Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
3 quotes from Cary Grant
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 thoughts from Loretta Young
God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.
2 sayings from Frank Knox
As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
13 wisdom & wit from Chanakya
All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
24 views from W. C. Fields
Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.
2 sayings from Christopher Love
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
21 quotes from George Burns
No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.
2 quotes from J. Edgar Hoover
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
32 quotes from Michel de Montaigne
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
32 other thoughts from Michel de Montaigne
A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
7 quotes from Walter Bagehot
Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
31 more views from Gertrude Stein
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
45 quotes from John Ruskin
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
33 wisdom & wit from Erma Bombeck
A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.
8 quotes from Dwight L. Moody
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
31 other views from Gertrude Stein
I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
33 wisdom & wit from Erma Bombeck
I talked about my family, my family's so important.
5 more quotes from Jim Valvano
By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
9 quotes 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 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 other wisdom & wit from Robert Frost
The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.
3 more wisdom & wit from Ring Lardner
Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
11 wisdom & wit from Clare Boothe Luce
As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
42 more quotes from Josh Billings
A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.
9 sayings from Anthony Trollope
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
8 other quotes from Joseph Brodsky
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
45 other views from Bertrand Russell
When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.
9 other quotes from John Cheever
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 don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
13 quotes from Fred Allen
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
10 quotes from Novalis
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 wisdom & wit from Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
14 other wisdom & wit from Joseph Joubert
My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.
8 quotes from Bobby Darin
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 more views from Christopher Lasch
A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
47 sayings from George Orwell
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 other wisdom & wit from Reinhold Niebuhr
I am the family face flesh perishes, I live on.
14 quotes from Thomas Hardy
The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
6 quotes from Ashley Montagu
The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.
20 wisdom & wit from Christopher Lasch
The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.
20 views from Christopher Lasch
The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.
20 quotes from Christopher Lasch
I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.
8 wisdom & wit from Paul Lynde
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction.
20 thoughts from Christopher Lasch
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
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
11 other quotes from Thomas Mann
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 more quotes from David Ogilvy