A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard ShawThe family is one of nature's masterpieces.
George SantayanaYou don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you as you are to them.
Desmond TutuIt is a wise father that knows his own child.
William ShakespeareThe bond that links your true family is not one of blood but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
Richard BachA brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.
Benjamin FranklinIf you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard ShawOne touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William ShakespeareGrief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark TwainIn God's family there are no outsiders no enemies.
Desmond TutuAmerica cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.
Mitt RomneyIn dwelling live close to the ground. In thinking keep to the simple. In conflict be fair and generous. In governing don't try to control. In work do what you enjoy. In family life be completely present.
Lao TzuFathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
Oscar WildeAll men are children and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed and wakes them in the morning.
Henry David ThoreauIt is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.
ConfuciusGive up a member to save a family, a family to save a village, a village to save a country, and the country to save yourself.
ChanakyaTo put the world in order we must first put the nation in order, to put the nation in order we must put the family in order, to put the family in order we must cultivate our personal life, and to cultivate our personal life we must first set our hearts right.
ConfuciusI don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.
Maya AngelouNobody who has not been in the interior of a family can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
Jane AustenI looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.
Rodney DangerfieldCertain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire, to our sons ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
Joseph AddisonOn his two younger sisters he then bestowed an equal portion of his fraternal tenderness, for he asked each of them how they did and observed that they both looked very ugly.
Jane AustenIt is extraordinary that, when you are acquainted with a whole family, you can forget about them.
Gertrude SteinI've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.
Vivien LeighHumans are not proud of their ancestors and rarely invite them round to dinner.
Douglas AdamsHe that raises a large family does indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow, but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
Benjamin FranklinAll well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter.
Joseph AddisonJesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they’ll say you’re crazy and you’re blasphemous, and they’ll either put you in jail or in a nut house (which is pretty much the same thing). However if you wake up in India and tell your friends and relations, ‘My goodness, I’ve just discovered that I’m God,’ they’ll laugh and say, ‘Oh, congratulations, at last you found out.
Alan WattsWe spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.
Maya AngelouWhen I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Mark TwainAnd it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.
AristotleFamily is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.
Bill CosbyAs a child, the family that I had, and the love I had from my two parents, allowed me to go ahead and be more aggressive, to search and to take risks knowing that if I failed I could always come home to a family of love and support.
Tiger WoodsThe 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 III have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
Walt WhitmanAs long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter she is perfectly satisfied.
Oscar WildeMarriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.
Pope John Paul IISee that's why Barack's running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly - to build an economy that lifts every family to make sure health care is available for every American - and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.
Michelle ObamaLike religion politics and family planning cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
Erma BombeckGetting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!
Alanis MorissetteSister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family but once the sisters are grown it becomes the strongest relationship.
Margaret MeadThere is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
Michel de MontaigneThe CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI've never had a divorce but I've seen so many of my friends my sister my family go through that stuff so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow so I'm able to kind of express it or their joy.
Dolly PartonWhen 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 KingI did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams and that took a hot second.
Alanis MorissetteHe who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
ChanakyaPeople abuse their own friends and family but it is only after performing many meritorious acts that one gets a human birth.
Sai BabaEverything I have my career my success my family I owe to America.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerIn my family we were Americans we were Republicans and we were Methodists.
Hillary ClintonLet your family staff and friends know that you're still the same person despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.
Donald RumsfeldThis is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.
Patrick HenryCruel is the strife of brothers.
AristotleAs a whole forest becomes fragrant by the existence of a single tree with sweet-smelling blossoms in it, so a family becomes famous by the birth of a virtuous son.
ChanakyaAs a single withered tree if set aflame causes a whole forest to burn so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
ChanakyaWhere does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found
Winston ChurchillI'm having fun because I don't take it (life) seriously - the only things I care about are my family friends work and my lady Sally. Philosophers for a long time have said 'why are we here?' - I'm here for the entertainment. If you're born in the world you're given a ticket to the freak show, if you're born in America you get a front row seat.
George CarlinMy dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.
Mitt RomneyI have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.
Barack ObamaI talked about my family my family's so important.
Jim ValvanoHolidays are the best. I couldn't imagine being from a small family.
Kim KardashianMy kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.
William ShatnerThe American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self and, at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.
Mitt RomneyRarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
Richard BachI just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.
Lady GagaPeople are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
Doug CouplandThe virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.
Tiger WoodsI have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves.
Tiger WoodsEvery adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream to destroy the family.
Gertrude SteinIt is better to have only one son from whom the whole family can derive support and peacefulness.
ChanakyaAll the men in my family were bearded and most of the women.
W. C. FieldsIf I win and get the money then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home me a house my family a house and a Stop Police Brutality Center.
Tupac ShakurIt is the harmony peace and mutual love between men and women that brings happiness and peace to the family. People want happiness in the family but they do not lead exemplary lives. The fault lies with both the husband and the wife.
Sai BabaA wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.
ChanakyaFamily is the most important thing in the world.
Princess DianaThe family is the first essential cell of human society.
Pope John XXIIII hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation, and kids all around the world who admired me.
Tiger WoodsIf it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
Douglas AdamsDad kept us out of school but school comes and goes. Family is forever.
Charlie SheenI can make a firm pledge under my plan no family making less than $250 000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax not your payroll tax not your capital gains taxes not any of your taxes.
Barack ObamaWhen I did 'E.T. ' it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of 'This is what I want to do with my life and this is where I'm going to survive.'
Drew BarrymoreThe arrival of our new daughter ... is such an incredible blessing for me and my family. We are all full of beautiful emotions after such an incredible day.
Kobe BryantEverybody has basically the same family it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.
Doug CouplandWe should always deal cautiously with fire water women foolish people serpents and members of a royal family, for they may when the occasion presents itself at once bring about our death.
ChanakyaThe family is the test of freedom, because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
Gilbert K. ChestertonMy family members are here with me because they're afraid to stay at home. There is no excuse for it. This is just uncalled for. It goes beyond courtesy. It's protection of life.
Woody AllenThe true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock he must leave his family.
Gustave FlaubertMy wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family.
P. J. O'RourkeI was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn't really appreciate life the way I should have but fortunately I woke up.
Johnny DeppDo not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women and members of a royal family.
ChanakyaSo live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
Will RogersI know some people say it's not the best to work with your family but I have never understood that because it's always worked so well for me.
Kim KardashianPresident Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. My promise... is to help you and your family.
Mitt RomneyA man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all his family ought to know.
Dwight L. MoodyOnce again I'm reminded of just how pervasive this illness is as it has now touched someone I love deeply. Based on my contact in recent days with Sheryl her doctor and her family I am confident that she will have a full and complete recovery and the world will be a better place for it.
Lance ArmstrongI guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents and I think I forgot about that for a little while.
Lady GagaThere is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues the most dominating virtues of human society are created strengthened and maintained
Winston ChurchillThere is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
Michel de MontaigneFamily love is messy clinging and of an annoying and repetitive pattern like bad wallpaper.
P. J. O'RourkeGod's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family that we are made for togetherness for goodness and for compassion.
Desmond TutuMy family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.
Jim CarreyI really have created a family. I work with the people I love, I travel with them, I make films with them, and I'm in an office with them. So in a weird way - I know I haven't birthed a child - I feel that I'm a part of creating a family. It's a tribe. I love that word.
Drew BarrymoreIn this world whose family is there without blemish? Who is free from sickness and grief? Who is forever happy?
ChanakyaMy parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.
Vivien LeighI believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here to vote here and to live here.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerA family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
Charles R. SwindollIt was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week the minimum wage family leave health insurance Social Security Medicare retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
Barack ObamaBut the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses I still don't get young men standing up and saying 'How can I combine career and family?'
Gertrude SteinMy family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church, materials that were created on our own personal time.
Robert H. SchullerPersonal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.
Tiger WoodsI have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them and that is the Christian religion.
Patrick HenryFirst and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.
Angelina JolieYou must act ever in the consciousness of your divinity and recognize in each being a brother a child of God. The whole world is one family.
Sai BabaBut let me perfectly clear because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250 000 a year you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.
Barack ObamaOffer service and receive love. This is the recipe for experiencing Divinity. Our love should not be confined to our kith and kin. It must extend beyond the family to society as a whole then to the nation at large and finally embrace the whole world.
Sai BabaThe God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
Desmond TutuI looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.
Rodney DangerfieldIt's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.
Lady GagaNobody 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.
Margaret MeadWith all my fans I got a family again.
Tupac ShakurFamily life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
Reinhold NiebuhrOver the last couple of years I've really worked toward balancing my life out more having a little bit more time with friends family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside so be it.
Alanis MorissetteThe details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.
EminemItalians come to ruin most generally in three ways women gambling and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
Pope John XXIIIA man should never neglect his family for business.
Walt DisneyThe only sensible ends of literature are first the pleasurable toil of writing, second the gratification of one's family and friends, and lastly the solid cash.
Nathaniel HawthorneMy family frankly they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.
Barack ObamaThe first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But when we turn further and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise then all begins to grow clear and legible.
Max MullerI had this child and it destroyed my family.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerI refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.
Jim CarreyActors are one family over the entire world.
Eleanor RooseveltMy father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him family was everything. We could disagree inside the house but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor he looked sideways but said okay.
Harvey FiersteinFamily quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThere is no such thing as fun for the whole family.
Jerry SeinfeldAs the family goes so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
Pope John Paul IILeave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.
Donald RumsfeldI always put clothes and family photos under the mattress in case the house burns down.
Kim KardashianMy biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.
Joel OsteenMy work and my family are very important to me.
Stephen HawkingThe place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one particularly if he plays golf.
Bertrand RussellI'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family and my children brought me back some of that spirit.
Angelina JolieNo attempt should be made to belittle Society and benefit only the family for it is bound to fail.
Sai BabaI can get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror and my family can look at me too, and that's all that matters.
Lance ArmstrongIn the richest country in the history of the world this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4 000 but health insurance premiums are higher food prices are higher utility bills are higher and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.
Mitt RomneyA man's worst enemies are those Of his own house and family, And he who makes his law a curse By his own law shall surely die.
William BlakeI come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
Erma BombeckA family with the wrong members in control, that perhaps is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
George Orwell