Family famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. "I just wanted to be sure of you.
-- A. A. Milne -
The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.
-- A. N. Wilson -
Every family has a story that it tells itself, that it passes on to the children and grandchildren. The story grows over the years, mutates, some parts are sharpened, others dropped, and there is often debate about what really happened. But even with these different sides of the same story, there is still agreement that this is the family story. And in the absence of other narratives, it becomes the flagpole that the family hangs its identity from.
-- A.M. Homes -
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
-- Abdul Kalam -
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
Kissing power is stronger than will power.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
-- Agatha Christie -
But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family. I forgot the songs they sung - and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue; I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now - yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.
-- Agnes Smedley -
Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
-- Agnes Smedley -
The family is where most of our joy comes from.
-- Aidan Quinn -
My family is my strength and my weakness.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan -
I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.
-- Akhmad Kadyrov -
In my family, there were Kei and Minoru and then there were the rest. Everyone in my family is very opinionated and everyone tried to join the debate. But by the time my turn came, there was nothing left to say. I couldn't keep pace, so I looked to do my own things.
-- Akira Mori -
I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.
-- Al Roker -
Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.
-- Al Unser -
THINK before you speak. Is it True, Helpful, Inspiring, Necessary, Kind?
-- Alan Redpath -
Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland
-- Albert Camus -
... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.
-- Albert Camus -
Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.
-- Albert Einstein -
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein -
Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.
-- Albert Einstein -
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
-- Alex Haley -
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
-- Alex Haley -
I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.
-- Alexa Vega -
A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
-- Alexander Pope -
Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.
-- Alexander Sutherland Neill -
The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.
-- Alexander Sutherland Neill -
Militant mothers hiding in the basement using pots and pans as their shields and their helmets.
-- Alice Cooper -
The free expression of resentment against one's parents represents a great opportunity. It provides access to one's true self, reactivates numbed feelings, opens the way for mourning and - with luck - reconciliation.
-- Alice Miller -
And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
-- Alice Walker -
Though it is fairly easy to describe what constitutes a bad home, there is no simple definition of a good one. Conformity with the traditional pattern certainly is no guarantee of the happiest results.
-- Alva Myrdal -
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.
-- Amos Oz -
I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.
-- Anais Nin -
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
-- Andre Maurois -
In that time and by God's will there died my mother, who was a great hindrance unto me in following the way of God; my husband died likewise, and in a short time there also died all my children. And because I had commenced to follow the aforesaid way and had prayed God that He would rid me of them, I had great consolation of their deaths, albeit I did also feel some grief.
-- Angela of Foligno -
You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.
-- Anita Baker -
Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions ...
-- Anita Shreve -
Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.
-- Ann Brashares -
Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
-- Ann Richards -
I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.
-- Anna Quindlen -
I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children.
-- Anne Hathaway -
I know that family life in America is a minefield, an economic trap for women, a study in disappointment for both sexes.
-- Anne Roiphe -
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
-- Anne Sullivan Macy -
I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another.
-- Anne Truitt -
It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.
-- Anne Tyler -
I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.
-- Anthony Anderson -
if human justice is to supplement Nature's provisions, all family duties must be shared equitably, in person or by proxy.
-- Antoinette Brown Blackwell -
I live quietly at home among my family and friends.
-- Antonio Tabucchi -
There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
-- Anwar Sadat -
Does everyone turn into a truculent thirteen-year-old when they go home, or is it just me?
-- Arabella Weir -
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
-- Aristotle -
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
-- Aristotle -
Steel True, Blade Straight *In 1955, Doyle's family sold Windlesham, which was turned into a hotel. The bodies of Conan Doyle and his wife, Jean, were moved to a grave at Minstead Churchyard, Hampshire.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
What is an editor but a cross between a fall guy and a father figure? arthur koestler
-- Arthur Koestler -
This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.
-- Arundhati Roy -
It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
-- Barack Obama -
I'm inspired by the people I meet in my travels--hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I'm inspired by the love people have for their children. And I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.
-- Barack Obama -
I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
-- Barack Obama -
But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.
-- Barack Obama -
I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
-- Barbara Bush -
To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
-- Barbara Bush -
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
-- Barbara Bush -
Your success as a family... our success as a nation... depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.
-- Barbara Bush -
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival.
-- Barbara Mikulski -
[On speaking of family secrets:] I don't know how you heal a wound and not let it get some air.
-- Barbara Neely -
Relationships become rocky when men and women fail to acknowledge they are biologically different and when each expects the other to live up to their expectations. Much of the stress we experience in relationships comes from the false belief that men and women are now the same and have the same priorities, drives and desires
-- Barbara Pease -
Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
-- Barbara Walters -
The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
-- Barry Gibb -
I don't think any change in the world has been more significant than the change in the status of women. . . . A woman's world was her home, her family, and perhaps a little community service. Today, a woman's world is as broad as the universe.
-- Belle S. Spafford -
Separate from the other unnamed billions who walk the earth, each of these little groups of three or five or twelve, brought together by the shuffle of chance, then welded by blood, sees in itself the whole of earth, or all that matters of it. What happens to one of the three or five or twelve will happen to them all. Whatever grief or triumph may touch any one will touch every one, as they are carried forward into the unknowable under the brilliant, terrifying sun which nourishes all.
-- Belva Plain -
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
-- Benjamin Spock -
Give a boy a dog and you've furnished him a playmate.
-- Berton Braley -
Marriage is to family what legs are to a table.
-- Betty Jane Wylie -
The family is the essential presence, the thing that never leaves you, even if you find you have to leave it.
-- Bill Buford -
Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.
-- Bill Cosby -
You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.
-- Bill Cosby -
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
-- Bill Cosby -
Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
-- Bill Cosby -
Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.
-- Bill Cosby -
Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
-- Bill Cosby -
Family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.
-- Bill Cosby -
No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.
-- Bill Cosby -
My children love my mother, and I tell my children, that is not the same woman I grew up with...That is an old woman trying to get into heaven now.
-- Bill Cosby -
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
