Family Quotes, Proverbs and Sayings - Page 5

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.
Margaret Mead

There’s a black sheep in every flock.
Proverb

You’re a disgrace to our family name of Wagstaff, if such a thing is possible.
Groucho Marx

Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.
Albert Einstein

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Bertrand Russell

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.
Francis Bacon

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren’t dying. They’re merging into big conglomerates.
Erma Bombeck

In each family a story is playing itself out, and each family’s story embodies its hope and despair.
Auguste Napier

Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them, with them, and so there is something more to the world again.
William Saroyan

Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
Bible: Ezekiel

I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough to accept her as she is, now, for as long as this dwindling may take.
Madeleine L’Engle

But we survived, and we’re a good family. I just don’t want to dedicate one more tear, or watch my mother cry one more time.
Angelina Jolie

There 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 Churchill

None but a mule denies his family.
Anonymous

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
Victor Hugo

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient’s condition. Usually this is a member of the family.
Alfred Adler

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.
Mignon McLaughlin

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.
W. Somerset Maugham

You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around – and why his parents will always wave back.
William D. Tammeus

I love all my children, but some of them I don’t like.
Lillian Carter

But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
Jerome K. Jerome

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
Colette

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry S Truman

Sometimes our hearts get tangled
And our souls a little off-kilter
Friends and family can set us right
And help guide us back to the light.
Sera Christann

Friends are God’s apology for relations.
Hugh Kingsmill

I don’t have to look up my family tree, because I know that I’m the sap.
Fred Allen

Kids haven’t changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives.
Penelope Leach

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

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