Quotes about family
family children dad
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity. Jean Paul
family boys ties
When Amos Moses was a boy his daddy would use him for alligator bait, tie a rope around his neck and throw him in the swamp. Jerry Reed
family moving track
There's no way that moving in with your parents is a sign that your life is on track. Jerry Seinfeld
family law sitting
For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life's list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors. Jeff Foxworthy
family mama mothering
I know if mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.
family loneliness men
Of those that are drawn away, each is drawn elsewhere toward another: once more a man and a woman, in a loneliness they are not liable at that time to notice, are tightened together upon a bed: and another family has begun. James Agee
family education wisdom
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. James A. Baldwin
family hunting diversity
The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types. Christopher Lasch
family people modern
The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.
family heartless world
The family is a haven in a heartless world.
family mom dad
People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom. Gary Vaynerchuk
family mother hurt
Hurt me to see the pain across my mothers face, every time my father's fist would put her in her place. Christina Aguilera
family pain father
Bruises fade father, but the pain remains the same. And I still remember how you kept me so afraid.
family mean forgotten
Ohana means family - no one gets left behind and no one is ever forgotten. Chris Sanders
family class degrees
I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story. Chris Martin
family mother father
Mother is the dead heart of the family spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats, sleeps, and watches the television. Germaine Greer
family race class
The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family. George Santayana
family insulting phrases
A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. George Orwell
family daddy mama
Mama stroked his dinger, Daddy got stinky finger. Frank Zappa
family silence unhappy
unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven. Jeanette Winterson
family grandparent sandwiches
Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches. Jim Carrey
family travel believe
I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other. Jet Li
family-love population prosperity
Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families, and they have more intact families, and they bring a younger population. Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity. Jeb Bush
family children littles
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. George Eliot
family our-family
We can choose our family. We can't choose our relatives. Gabriel Iglesias
family tree looks
I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. Fred Allen
family heaven ease
God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease. Frank Knox
family mother children
Mother love has been much maligned. An over mothered boy may go through life expecting each new woman to love him the way his mother did. Her love may make any other love seem inadequate. But an unloved boy would be even more likely to idealize love. I don't think it's possible for a mother or father to love a child too much. Frank Pittman
family children ideas
Parents have to get over the idea that their children belong just to them; children are a family affair.
family past two
Family love can be a bore, but only when you are hearing it, never when you are relating it to the ones who will be carrying it out for you. A family without a storyteller or two has no way to make sense out of their past and no way to get a sense of themselves.
family men responsible
There's not many a man who would get shot and then come visit the family responsible. Chris Hardwick
family sister cheer
For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather. Christina Rossetti
family feelings reunion
It was like a family reunion, watching the movie. It's always a good feeling when I can get a screening for my family. Chris Tucker