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Bill Cosby Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
Leo Tolstoy All happy families are alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.
Dan Quayle I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.
John Irving To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.
Robert C. Byrd One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.
Pope John Paul II To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
Richard Bach The 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.
Jerrold Mundis I am years gone from my family and miles away ... but they raid by telephone with jarring suddenness they have the cyclic constancy of a mortgage and they are inevitable and relentless, like the erosion of my remaining youth. Like certain frightening dreams, my family returns.
John Pearson Like the old motto of a famous Sunday paper, 'All human life was there' in the stately circle of the Mountbatten-Windsors, as the family coped in semipublic with those everlasting elements of human interest-sickness, scandal, family tension and divorce.
THOMSON: _Seasons, Spring,_ Line 539. Then comes the tulip race, where beauty plays Her idle freaks; from family diffused To family, as flies the father-dust, The varied colors run; and while they break On the charmed eye, the exulting florist marks, With secret pride, the wonders of his hand
Laurie E. Colwin That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional.
Godfather, The Don Corleone Do you spend time with your family Good. Because a man that doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
Ralph Kiner There's a lot of heredity in that family.
Eric Pio A family, although not a necessity, is the ultimate luxury.
Rose Cherin Heirlooms we don't have in our family. But stories we've got.
Motto of the Mulvany family Through struggle to the stars.
J. S. Bryan Many men can make a fortune by very few can build a family.
Rodney Dangerfield I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.
Yvonne De Gaulle The presidency is temporary-but the family is permanent.
Desmond Tutu You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
Rodney Dangerfield I have nothing but troubles with my car. Every Sunday I take my family out for a push.
Anthony Brandt Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.
Donna Hedges Having a place to go - is a home. Having someone to love - is a family. Having both - is a blessing.
Rodney Dangerfield I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.
Tom Masson Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college.
Jewish Proverb Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.
Trey and Matt Stone Parker Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.
Rodney Dangerfield My cousins gay, I always tell him that in our family tree, he's in the fruit section.
Antonin Scalia In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.
Sandra Day O'Connor Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.
Lee Iacocca No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished
Will Rogers So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
Earl Eisenhower The story of my boyhood and that of my brothers is important only because it could happen in any American family. It did, and will again.
Lyndon B. Johnson The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
Rodney Dangerfield I come from a stupid family. During the civil war my great uncle fought for the west
Rodney Dangerfield I come from a stupid family. During the Civil War my great Uncle fought for the west!
George Burns Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
Rodney Dangerfield I come from a stupid family. My father worked in a bank. They caught him stealing pens
Andrew H. Malcolm The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other.
Dan Quayle We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.
Sir V Pritchett There is nothing like a coup de foudre and absorption in family responsibility for maturing the male and pulling his scattered wits together.
Gene Hackman Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. (as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994)
Erma Bombeck You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
Charles Dudley Warner Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
Donald G. Smith The family seems to have two predominant functions to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
F Scott 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.
Unknown Family means too much, Friends are too valuable, And life is too short, To put-off sharing with people, How much they really mean to you, And pursuing whatever it is that makes you happy.
Trey and Matt Stone Parker I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that ther's always somebody there, somebody that's family.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.
Sir V Pritchett All writers-all people-have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.
Vince Lombardi Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.
The bonds that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.
There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.
'Pedorasto', the game for all the family
A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
A married man with a family will do anything for money.
The family is the country of the heart.
The family is the nucleus of civilization.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.
The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
A healthy family is sacred territory.
I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family fued.
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.
The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
I looked up my wife's family tree. Most of her relatives are still climbing around in it.
The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have lived well
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by mother, who sees that the others get it.
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
The family-that dear octopus from whese tentacles we never quite escape nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
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.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.
Love is this divine ingredient. It alone describes what can be our perfect relationship to our Heavenly Father and our family and neighbors, and the means by which we accomplish His work.
The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.
Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!
If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.
I believe that to meet the challenge of the next century, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind.
A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to tur
It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of t
"Sic Gorgiamos Allos Subjectatos Nunc" Addams Family Credo
"Let's play Kiss or Diss", ---The Proud Family, Disney Channel and ABC
"A family reunion is an effective form of birth control." - Heinlein
"Notice the family resembance? Like father like son..."-Freddy Krueger
"The Addams family crunches, froggy parts for lunches..."
"The Family Car Trip Sketch, ladies and gentlemen!" -- Tom Servo
"The Picard family...voices raised in song..."--Madred
"That thing looked like the Manson family Christmas Special."
"I'd hate to be responsible for the death of a family member" -Scar.
"In our family, death is when you really start to enjoy life." - Teppic
"Treat people in your debt like family: exploit them." -- Sisko

 

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