Famous Family Quotes

"A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere"

"Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"A happy family is but an earlier heaven"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them"

Josh Billings, Comedian

"Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations"

Doug Coupland, Author

"People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"There is no such thing as fun for the whole family"

Jerry Seinfeld, Comedian

"If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family"

Jasmine Guy, Actress

"The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family"

Lee Iacocca, Businessman

"A man should never neglect his family for business"

Walt Disney, Cartoonist

"I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy"

Marie Curie, Scientist

"A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table"

Bob Ehrlich, Politician

"Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports"

Bernice Weissbourd

"Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God"

Christopher Love, Educator

"God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease"

Frank Knox, Public Servant

"There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about"

Shirley Knight, Actress

"Family, nature and health all go together"

Olivia Newton-John, Musician

"The most difficult is the first family, to bring someone out of the world"

Richard G. Scott, Clergyman

"I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that"

Adam Sandler, Actor

"We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved"

Julia Barr, Actress

"The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music"

Dennis Wilson, Musician

"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future"

Alex Haley, Novelist

"At a certain point I'm going to want to have a family"

Gwen Stefani, Musician

"Family is not an important thing, it's everything"

Michael J. Fox, Actor

"It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home"

Elizabeth Edwards, Lawyer

"We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family"

Darius Rucker, Musician

"Tennis just a game, family is forever"

Serena Williams, Athlete

"Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be"

Elizabeth Fishel, Writer

"Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops"

Cary Grant, Actor

"I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house"

Anthony Anderson, Actor

"Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster"

Agnes Smedley, Journalist

"If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family"

Michael Enzi, Politician

"Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family"

Vartan Gregorian, Educator

"There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street"

Willie Stargell, Athlete

"For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help"

Paula Abdul, Musician

"I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now"

Patty Duke, Actress

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