Family Quotes

Oh, I love to see a man with a cigar. It reminds me of my grandfather. Morning to night, he used to sit with a great big stogie dangling from his lips. Oh, the hours we kids used to spend sitting on his lap, playing with the yellow whiskers beneath his nose. Then he'd take out his teeth with the cigar still in them and chase us around the room! We'd all laugh and laugh . . . then suddenly Grampa's mood would change, and we'd all have to run for our lives. . . . You can't buy memories like that. ------Daphne Frasier

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future. ----Gail Lumet Buckley

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. ---- George Burns

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us. ---Benjamin Franklin

Acting is just a way of making a living; the family is life. ------Denzel Washington

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. -----Willie Brown Mayor, San Francisco

Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing. ------Jim Rohn

In truth a family is what you make it. It is made strong, not by number of heads counted at the dinner table, but by the rituals you help family members create, by the memories you share, by the commitment of time, caring, and love you show to one another, and by the hopes for the future you have as individuals and as a unit. ----- Marge Kennedy

The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness. -----John Keats

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

We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents. ----Henry Ward Beecher

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