Family Quotes

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Leo Tolstoy

Desmond Tutu

Elizabeth II

Pope John Paul II

Walter Kohn

Jimmy Connors

Dodie Smith

All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

Pope John Paul II

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

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

I love people. I love my family, my children … but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.

Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature — and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it.

On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in foregoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family life.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

August Strindberg

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.

Charles Eastman

As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life, and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived — a Defensive war I think a righteous war to Defend my life & property & that of my family, in my own opinion, is right & justifiable in the sight of God.
An offensive war, I believe to be wrong and would therefore have nothing to do with it, having no right to meddle with another man's property, his ox or his ass, his man servant or his maid servant or anything that is his. Neither does he have a right to meddle with anything that is mine, if he does I have a right to defend it by force.

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.

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?

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places. That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

Never Write an Advertisement Which You Wouldn't Want Your Own Family To Read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by.

When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

Lawrence Lovasik

Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved

We all have a personal pool of quicksand inside us where we begin to sink and need friends and family to find us and remind us of all the good that has been and will be.