A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an
occasional animal, and the common cold.
-Ogden Nash
Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families.
-Charles
Dickens
Alcoholism isn't a spectator sport. Eventually the whole family gets to
play.
-Joyce Rebeta-Burditt
All government originates in families, and if neglected there, it will
hardly exist in society... The foundation of all free government and of
all social order must be laid in families and in the discipline of youth.
-Noah
Webster
All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is
unhappy in its own way.
-Leo Tolstoy
All the average human being asks is something he can call a home; a
family that is fed and warm; and now and then a little happiness; once
in a long while an extravagance.
-Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones)
America's a family. We all yell at each other. It all works out.
-Louis
C.K.
Americans are fat all year round, but the holidays are when we really
hit our stride. And you can bet the food we eat will be just as
unhealthy as the families we're forced to visit.
-Lewis Black
Among Republicans, family values seems to be an article of faith, like
heaven, rather than an actual way of life.
-John Bonnano
Are we disheartened by the breakup of the family? Nobody who ever met my
family is.
-P.J. O'Rourke
Do you want to trace your family tree? Run for public office.
-Patricia
H. Vance
Even in harmonious families there is this double life: the group life,
which is the one we can observe in our neighbour's household, and,
underneath, another- secret and passionate and intense- which is the
real life that stamps the faces and gives character to the voices of our
friends.
-Willa Cather
Every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at our tables long after
they have gone.
-Mitch Albom
Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.
-Matt
Groening
Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.
-George
W. Bush
Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each
other.
-E.W. Howe
Family 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
Fitzgerald
Fathers should neither be seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis
for family life.
-Oscar Wilde
Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the
curious delusion that some families are older than others.
-W.H.
Auden
Heredity runs in our family.
-Don Marquis
I am not here, of course, as one pretending to any expertness on
questions of youth and children- except in the sense that, within their
own families, all grandfathers are experts on these matters.
-Dwight
D. Eisenhower
I come from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep
alone until I was married.
-Lewis Grizzard
I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
-Erma
Bombeck
I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
-Fred
Allen
I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.
-George
W. Bush
I'll keep it short and sweet- Family. Religion. Friendship. These are
the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business.
-Matt
Groening
I've been to all 50 states, and traveled this whole country, and 90
percent of the people are good folks. The rest of them take after the
other side of the family.
-Jeff Foxworthy
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
If society is the prison, families are the cells, with no time off for
good behavior. Good behavior in fact tends to lengthen the sentence.
-John
Updike
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton you might as well make it
dance.
-George Bernard Shaw
If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest family in the
world, all you have to do is go to a state fair.
-Jeff Foxworthy
In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but
they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which
gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.
-Isaac Rosenfeld
In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away
the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability
to speak the language viciously.
-David Mamet
In our family we don't divorce our men, we bury them.
-Ruth Gordon
It sometimes happens, even in the best of families, that a baby is born.
This is not necessarily cause for alarm. The important thing is to keep
your wits about you and borrow some money.
-Elinor Goulding Smith
Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined
with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.
-Quentin Crisp
The family is a good institution because it is uncongenial.
-G.K.
Chesterton
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
-George Santayana
The family is our refuge and our springboard; nourished on it, we can
advance to new horizons.
-Alex Haley
The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going
to have.
-Ring Lardner
The trouble with the family is that children grow out of childhood, but
parents never grow out of parenthood.
-Evan Esar
There is no such thing as 'fun for the whole family.'
-Jerry
Seinfeld
When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and
combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an
adventure.
-E.B. White
When someone asks if I'm the black sheep of the family I always say no,
we're all black sheep.
-Sarah Vowell
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking
about every person on earth.
-Alex Haley
Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting
another?
-Peter De Vries
Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and
spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
-Clare
Boothe Luce
You should come from a good family, because while breeding isn't
everything, it is said to be lots of fun.
-Gracie Allen
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(Today is also the birthday of Clare Boothe Luce)
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