Family Quotes
~ 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
~ Family is the most important thing in the world. ~ Princess Diana
~ Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof. ~ Richard Bach ~ The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going. ~ George Carlin ~ Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. ~ Gracie Allen ~ In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family. ~ Alfred Adler ~ Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops. ~ Cary Grant
~ Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family. ~ Grace Kelly ~ There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.~ Meryl Streep ~ My whole family is lactose intolerant and when we take pictures we can't say cheese.~ Jay London ~ The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.~ Ring Lardner
~ The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst.~ Marge Kennedy ~ Family is what grounds you. ~ Angelina Jolie
~ A good many family trees are shady. ~ Robert Elliott Gonzales ~ Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.~ Joseph Joubert ~ A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living. ~ Charles R. Swindoll ~ In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured. ~ Robert Brault ~ He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stands a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure, too. ~ Benjamin Franklin ~ The family is one of nature's masterpieces.~ George Santayana
~ A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~ Chinese Proverb ~ The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions. ~ Robert Brault ~ A father is a banker provided by nature.~ Proverb ~ Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. ~ Martin Mull ~ Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.~ Sam Ewing ~ Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards. ~ Robert Orben ~ My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.~ Bill Cosby ~ Families are about love overcoming emotional torture. ~ Matt Groening
~ My father was often angry when I was most like him. ~ Lillian Hellman ~ It is a wise father that knows his own child. ~ William Shakespeare ~ Becoming a father is easy enough, but being one can be very rough. ~ Wilhelm Busch ~ Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back. ~ Earl Wilson ~ There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.~ Samuel Johnson ~ My wife and I have five children; the reason we have five children is because we do not want six. ~ Bill Cosby
~ Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires. ~ Marcelene Cox ~ Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. ~ Anne Frank
~ If your family tree does not fork, you might be a redneck. ~ Jeff Foxworthy
~ When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. ~ Joyce Brothers ~ Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie, not perfect but who's complaining? ~ Robert Brault ~ One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~ Proverb ~ Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends, they will never go out of fashion.~ Niki Taylor
~ I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.~ Sigmund Freud ~ 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. ~ Robert Frost ~ Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald ~ If you treat your children at home in the same way you treat your animals in the lab, your wife will scratch your eyes out. My wife ferociously warned me against experimenting on her babies. ~ Abraham Maslow ~ Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures. ~ Vince Lombardi ~ Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. ~ George Burns |
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