family quotes

• Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent. (Thomas Mann) [family]
• Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof. (Richard Bach) [family/roof]
• As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them. () [thing/family/right]
• Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers. () [ability/family]
• In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars. (Edmund Burke) [choice/blood/family/state]
• Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. (George Burns) [happiness/family]
• Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way. (Barbara Bush) [willpower/people/family]
• Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. (Barbara Bush) [human/family]
• Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. (Willa Cather) [men/family/exile]
• The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [family/family/thing]
• It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family. ( Confucius) [teach/teach/family]
• A ball player has got to be kept hungry be become a big leaguer. That is why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues. (Joe DiMaggio) [family]
• 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) [family/sorrow/pleasure]
• The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison. (Paul Gauguin) [conscience/family/love/vow]
• Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people. (Alex Haley) [roots/family/people]
• I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion. (Thomas Hardy) [family/face/trace/time]
• The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private well-being, that thus the interests of family and civil society must concentrate themselves on the state. It is only when both these moments subsist in their strength that the state can be regarded as articulated and genuinely organized. (Georg Hegel) [essence/state/family/society]
• The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews. (Heinrich Heine) [bible/family/jews]
• I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion. (Patrick Henry) [property/family/thing/more]
• Religion I have disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give to them, and that is the Christian religion. If they had that and I had not given them one cent, they would be rich. If they have not that, and I had given them the world, they would be poor. (Patrick Henry) [religion/property/family/thing]
• Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family. (Kin Hubbard) [/family]
• The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. (Thomas Jefferson) [life/housing/family]
• The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness which it is given to man to taste upon earth are, thanks to this angel, the joys of the Family. (Giuseppe Mazzini) [family/angel/family/influence]
• There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [family]
• There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [government/family/state]
• Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. (Martin Mull) [family/brain]
• Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general. ( Novalis) [life/family/life]
• 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/class/bees/family]
• The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government. (Gloria Steinem) [family/government/human/sex]
• Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described --and will be, after our deaths --by each of the family members who believe they know us. (Gloria Steinem) [willpower/family]
• I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods. (Gertrude Stein) [people/content/family/life]

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