Family Quotes

54 quotations about Family
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
John Paul II · Family
The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.
Paul Johnson · Family
The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.
Ring Lardner · Family
All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham Lincoln · Family
I would rather start a family than finish one.
Don Marquis · Family
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne · Family
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
Martin Mull · Family
Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.
Ann Oakley · Family
The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.
Sandra Day O'connor · Family
A brother is a friend provided by nature.
Legouve Pere · Family
The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.
Francis Picabia · Family
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
V. S. Pritchett · Family
None but a mule denies his family.
Arabian Proverb · Family
All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them.
Chinese Proverb · Family
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently.
Chinese Proverb · Family
In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.
Chinese Proverb · Family
Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.
Chinese Proverb · Family
A small family is soon provided for.
English Proverb · Family
Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.
Jewish Proverb · Family
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
Jewish Proverb · Family
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
George Santayana · Family
Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.
Charles M. Schulz · Family
The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.
William Shakespeare · Family
A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
Charles Swindoll · Family
The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus · Family

Authors on Family

George Ade Arabian Proverb Aristotle Richard Bach Anita Baker Henry Ward Beecher Stella Benson Anthony Brandt Jerry Brown Buddha Jimmy Buffett George Burns William S. Burroughs Chinese Proverb Confucius Joseph Cook Jacques Delille Princess of Wales Diana William J. Durant English Proverb