Family Quotes, Proverbs and Sayings - Page 3
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
William Penn
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
Jane Howard
I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
Laurence Sterne
A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life.
Irish Saying
Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl – no superior alternative has yet been found.
Winston Churchill
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
Thomas Jefferson
The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns
Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
Evelyn Waugh
Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.
Alan Garner
Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.
Francis Bacon
I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.
Anais Nin
The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.
George Santayana
Like father, like son.
Proverb
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Bible: Colossians
The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life’s essential unfairness.
Nancy Mitford
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
George Bernard Shaw
Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there’s always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
Marcelene Cox
It is no use telling me that there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof.
P. G. Wodehouse
The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst.
Marge Kennedy
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank
A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.
Chinese Proverb
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go by 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
A tree is known by its fruit.
Proverb
You would think that those who are always talking about family values would want to create an environment of permanent relationships for people of the same sex. But they’re not advocating family values. They’re advocating their values.
Willie Brown
We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.
Shirley Abbott
All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter.
Joseph Addison
We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.
Henry Ward Beecher
The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.
M. Grundler
To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
Marilyn French
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