Family Quotes

Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts. ~Author Unknown

Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
3. If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct. ~Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground. ---FRANCIS BACON

Every single person has capabilities, abilities and gifts. Living a good life depends on whether those capabilities can be used, abilities expressed and gifts given. If they are, the person will be valued, feel powerful and well-connected to the people around them. And the community around the person will be more powerful because of the contribution the person is making. -----JOHN P. KRETZMANN AND JOHN L. MCKNIGHT

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. ----THOMAS JEFFERSON

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

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another, the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden. ----- Buddha

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have. ----Ring Lardner

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

Of all our social institutions, the family is perhaps the one with which we are most familiar. As we proceed through our lives, our experiences within the family give rise to some of our strongest and most intense feelings. Within the family context lies a paradox, however: although most of us hope for love and support within the family -- a haven in a heartless world, so to speak -- the family can also be a place of violence and abuse. ---MARILYN POOLE

Better a loving single-parent family than a 'conventional' family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue. ----MOBY

The family is both the fundamental unit of society as well as the root of culture. It ... is a perpetual source of encouragement, advocacy, assurance, and emotional refueling that empowers a child to venture with confidence into the greater world and to become all that he can be. -----MARIANNE E. NEIFERT

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

Our family is a circle of strength and love…
With every birth and every union the circle grows…
Every joy shared adds more love…
Every crisis faced together
makes the circle grow stronger.