— Erma Bombeck"I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage."
Family Quotes
477 quotes
Authors on Family
— Bill Cosby"The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them."
— Eminem"The 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."
— 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?"
— Barack Obama"I 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."
— George Carlin"The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going."
— Benjamin Franklin"He 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."
— Eleanor Roosevelt"Actors are one family over the entire world."
— George Burns"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."
— Dave Eggers"It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent."
— Christopher Lasch"The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types."
— Elizabeth Edwards"It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home."
— Gertrude Stein"It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them."
— Christopher Lasch"The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time."
— Gilbert K. Chesterton"The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself."
— Angelina Jolie"First 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."
— John Ruskin"Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back."
— Lee Iacocca"The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family."
— Richard Bach"Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof."
— George Santayana"The family is one of nature's masterpieces."