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Family Quotes
Family quotes by author-names starting with A Alfred Adler: 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. Anwar el Sadat: There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones. Ariel and Will Durant: The family is the nucleus of civilization. Auguste Napier: In each family a story is playing itself out, and each family's story embodies its hope and despair. Author Unknown: A close relative is one you see occasionally between family funerals. Author Unknown: Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice. Author Unknown: Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too. Author Unknown: The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency. At one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity and finally, its influence is felt in the dealings of man with the animal world. Family quotes by author-names starting with B Bertrand Russell: The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. Family quotes by author-names starting with C Charles Baudelaire: The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find. Chinese Proverb: Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. Colette: It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place. Family quotes by author-names starting with D Dodie Smith: The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. Donald G. Smith: The family seems to have two predominant functions: to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane. Family quotes by author-names starting with E Ellen Gould White: The majority of the diseases which the human family have been and still are suffering under, they have created by ignorance of their own organic health, and work perseveringly to tear themselves to pieces, and when broken down and debilitated in body and mind, send for the doctor and drug themselves to death. Elizabeth Janeway: Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections? Elizabeth Stone: Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body. Erma Bombeck: You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates. Eva Figes: Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist. Evan Esar: Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. Family quotes by author-names starting with F Fred Allen: I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. Friedrich Nietzsche: Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. F. Scott Fitzgerald: Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go by 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. Family quotes by author-names starting with G George Burns: Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. George Carlin: The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going. Family quotes by author-names starting with H Harry S Truman: I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. Helen Keller: A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree. Hugh Kingsmill: Friends are God's apology for relations. Family quotes by author-names starting with I Iphicrates: My family begins with me, your family ends with you. Isaac Rosenfeld: In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm. Family quotes by author-names starting with J John Sculley: We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children. Jonathan Raban: One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We have been taught to accept the myth not as an heroic ideal, something good, brave, and nearly impossible to fulfil, but as the very fiber of normal life. Given most families and most marriages, the belief seems admirable but foolhardily. Family quotes by author-names starting with K Katharine Butler Hathaway: A person needs at intervals to separate from family and companions and go to new places. One must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change. Family quotes by author-names starting with L Lawrence Kubie: Today's family is built like a pyramid; with all the intrafamilial rivalries, tensions, jealousies, angers, hatreds, loves and needs focused on the untrained, vulnerable, insecure, young, inexperienced and incompetent parental apex ... about whose incompetence our vaunted educational system does nothing. Family quotes by author-names starting with M Margaret Mead: Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation. Marcelene Cox: 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. Michael Levine: Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. Mignon McLaughlin: There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than. Milton R. Sapirstein: It is impossible for any woman to love her children twenty-four hours a day. Family quotes by author-names starting with P Pearl S. Buck: The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born. Proverb: Treat your family like friends and your friends like family. Proverb: 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. Family quotes by author-names starting with Q Quentin Crisp: If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family. Family quotes by author-names starting with S Sara Paddison: We are one big family of people, trying to make our way through the unfolding puzzle of life. Family quotes by author-names starting with V Valerie Solanis: Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. Family quotes by author-names starting with W Willie Brown: You would think that those who are always talking about family values would want to create an environment of permanent relationships for people of the same sex. But they're not advocating family values. They're advocating their values. Winston Churchill: Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found. W. S. Gilbert: My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering. These are the family quotes that appealed me quite a bit. In a way, they are my personal choice from amongst a host of them. I'll keep adding more to them as and when I come across the ones that touch me deep. Keep checking, if you please! Wanna have some bidding fun with 'Family Quotes' on ebay auction? You might grab a bargain or two! Just say your bid and you're done: I invite you to subscribe to my E-zine titled Life Coach, free of charge. This E-zine publishes insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domains of various facets of life. A not-to-be-missed opportunity! Subscribe to it here: I also invite you to subscribe to my Life Blog - no need to provide your e-mail address here. 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