Family Quotes

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others. ---- Pope John Paul II

The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. -----Bombeck, Erma

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. ----- Alex Haley

I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. --- Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place. ----Colette

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish. -----Pope John Paul II

The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you. -----Hailey, Kendall

To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right. ------Confucius

The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other. ---Andrew H. Malcolm

Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are. ---Marsha Norman

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other. ------ Ed Howe

The family is the school of duties... founded on love. ---Felix Adler