Family Quotes

Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.

Christopher Love

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl.

Jane Goodall

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

Stella Benson

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Legouve Pere

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

Alex Haley

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

Sigmund Freud

How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.

Adrienne Rich

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Ann Oakley

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.

Jonathan Raban

... in the working class, the process of building a family, of making a living for it, of nurturing and maintaining the individuals in it

Lillian Breslow Rubin, Worlds of

While Free Choice Vouchers didn't fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every American would be empowered to hire and fire their insurance company, they were a foothold for choice and competition and a safety valve for Americans whose employers are already forcing them to bear more and more of their family's health insurance costs.

Ron Wyden

The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?

Terry Pratchett

The family is the first essential cell of human society.

Pope John XXIII

I would like a food/lifestyle show. We're not sure what that is yet. I want to be able to share what I do and how I raise my family. I feel like I have a story to tell. I enjoy talking and listening, sharing ideas and sharing advice.

Cat Cora

Being a Barrymore didn't help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me.

Drew Barrymore

I don't hide my feelings, but when it comes to illness, I guess I don't panic. My father was the same way. I'm the provider for the family and the caretaker. If I panic, who is anybody going to run to?

Curt Schilling

Everything family does is reflection on the other people.

Kim Kardashian

I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.

Ani DiFranco

Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently.

Chinese Proverb

Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.

Chinese Proverb