More Family Sayings And Quotes

by allinspiration.com

“Better a loving single-parent family than a ‘conventional’ family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.”
– MOBY, I Like to Score

“Frankly, I’m fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn’t.”
– BILL CLINTON, speech at Democratic National Convention, July 16, 1992

“If your family tree does not fork, you might be a redneck.”
– JEFF FOXWORTHY, stand-up routine

“No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.”
– MARGARET MEAD, Kate Rowinski’s The Quotable Mom

“Family life is not a computer program that runs on its own; it needs continual input from everyone.”
– NEIL KURSHAN, Raising Your Child to Be a Mensch

“Every family has a story that it tells itself, that it passes on to the children and grandchildren. The story grows over the years, mutates, some parts are sharpened, others dropped, and there is often debate about what really happened. But even with these different sides of the same story, there is still agreement that this is the family story. And in the absence of other narratives, it becomes the flagpole that the family hangs its identity from.”
– A.M. HOMES, O Magazine, Apr. 2007

“Family is what grounds you.”
– ANGELINA JOLIE, interview, Jun. 13, 2001

“A good many family trees are shady.”
– ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, Poems and Paragraphs

“Focus on your marriage. Because that’s the nucleus of the home, whatever you do to restore its health and strength will naturally restore what’s broken among the other relationships. If you have no children yet, this will make a comfortable nest for them to begin life well. If you have children, the changes you make in your marriage will affect the rest of the household more quickly and dramatically than you think.”
– CHARLES R. SWINDOLL, Marriage: From Surviving to Thriving

“The Family is the Country of the heart.”
– GIUSEPPE MAZZINI, The Duties of Man

“The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government.”
– GLORIA STEINEM, speech, July 1981

“Families aren’t easy to join. They’re like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant.”
– ERMA BOMBECK, Family: The Ties that Bind … And Gag!

“Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it.”
– GEORGE ELIOT, Adam Bede

“There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he’s held up by the others until he regains his footing.”
– PHIL McGRAW, Family First

“If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.”
– QUENTIN CRISP, Manners from Heaven

“All my family, my blood, is mixed up now. They don’t even all know each other. I just hope they don’t never hate or fight each other, not knowin who they are. Cause all these people livin are brothers and sisters and cousins. All these beautiful different colors! We!… We the human Family. God says so! FAMILY!”
– J. CALIFORNIA COOPER, Family

“Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.”
– ANDRÉ MAUROIS, The Art of Living

“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.”
– Richard Bach

“The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other”
– Burton Hills

“There’s no vocabulary For love within a family, love that’s lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.”
– T.S. Eliot

“In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.”
– Eva Burrows

“A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone.”
– Aesop

“Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?”
– Elbert Hubbard

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

“Treat your family like friends and your friends like family.”
– Proverb

“Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hasten when you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.”
– Og Mandino

“When you educate a man you educate an individual when you educate a woman you educate a whole family”
– Johnetta Cole

“It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.”
– Confucius

“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.”
– Jeff Foxworthy

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