Family Quotes

A happy family is but an earlier heaven. ---- George Bernard Shaw

My balance comes from my family. I have reality around me, and they tell me when I need to calm down, take it down a couple notches. Then they tell me when I do something good. I think what celebrities lose is that they lose touch with reality because everybody kind of works for them and they just want their job. But my family doesn’t care.--Beyonce Knowles

That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden: layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional. -----Laurie E. Colwin

We must never feel that it is okay to say that a sucker fish is of more value under law than a farm family. ----Gordon Smith Oregon Senator

A great part of the pleasure of travel lies in the fulfillment of early wishes to escape the family and especially the father. ----Anna Freud

A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life. --- Irish Sayings

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. -----Mazzini, Giuseppe

The principle of using interactivity as a creativity-builder is not restricted to computer games. Once we become fully conscious of this principle, we can find ways to become more interactive everywhere. We can make conversations with our family and friends more interactive than they once were. The more thoughtful our questions get to be, the more interactive the conversations. -----Steve Chandler

A sweet thing, for whatever time,
to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost. ----- Euripides

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. --Dodie Smith

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. ------Jane Howard

If you don't know [your family's] history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ------Michael Chrichton