Family Quotes

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates. ----Erma Bombeck

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. ----George Bernard Shaw

At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.-- Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer

Okay, conservatives have changed my mind. Allowing gay marriage, I have been persuaded, will destroy the family, weaken Western civilization, turn America into Sodom and Gomorrah, increase the trade deficit with Japan, endanger the family farm and promote tooth decay. The impeccable logic of conservative opponents is simply too powerful to deny. -----Stephen Chapman, Chicago Tribune columnist

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy. -----Dickens, Charles

The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale the community itself is crippled. So, unless we work to strengthen the family, to create conditions under which most parents will stay together, all the rest — schools, playgrounds, and public assitance, and private concern — will never be enough. -----Lyndon Baines Johnson

The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind. -Thomas Jefferson

Never be sad, never be lonely, but always be loved ------- Natalie Aguilar

I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.
Family. ----- Burroughs, William S

My family begins with me, your family ends with you. ----Iphicrates

When I do something in my family because I really enjoy it, then my duty has become my pleasure. And it is a pleasure for all the people around me. ------Lair, Dr. Jess

He didn t dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life. ---Shaw, George Bernard