Family Quotes - page 4

I'm surrounded by great friends and family. I don't know what I would do without them. (Emma Roberts)
While politicians, clergy, creators of advertisements, and other worthies assert stoutly that the family is the foundation of society, the nuclear family, as an institution, is currently in grave trouble. View quote
Jane Jacobs
Animals are not here for us to do as we please with. We are not their superiors, we are their equals. We are their family. Be kind to them. View quote
Ricky Gervais
If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.' View quote
Jeff Foxworthy
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. View quote
Gracie Allen
Obviously, if I was serious about having a relationship with someone long-term, the last people I would introduce him to would be my family. View quote
Chelsea Handler
All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction. View quote
Alan Lightman
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. View quote
Alex Haley
Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people. View quote
Alex Haley
To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread, we were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense. View quote
John Irving
This solution has great superficial appeal--all the excitement of secret, forbidden, romantic sexuality without family responsibility and family grubbiness. (Benjamin Spock)
If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace. View quote
Nhat Hanh
Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three. View quote
Philip Larkin
Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world. View quote
Barry Goldwater
I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much. View quote
Don Marquis
Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next. View quote
Douglas Coupland
I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world, so the idea of patriotism is not very strong in me. My country is the country of Chekhov, Beethoven, Velasquez - writers I like, painters and artists I admire. View quote
António Lobo Antunes
Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be. View quote
Jane Austen
A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world. View quote
Jane Austen
I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body now I know it to be merely a function of the mind -- and that of the minds who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end the fundamentalists, the beginning when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town. View quote
William Faulkner
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why God? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off". (Stephen King)
A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in w. View quote
Jonathan Swift
If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force? View quote
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law. View quote
V. S. Naipaul
President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans... And to heal the planet. My promise is to help you and your family. View quote
Mitt Romney