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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
Joseph Addison in FAMILY
A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. Th
Aesop in FAMILY
Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
Amos Bronson Alcott in FAMILY
Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from others. As long as its spell lasts, the only in-between which can insert itself between two lovers is the child, love's own product. The child, this in-betw
Hannah Arendt in FAMILY
Cruel is the strife of brothers.
Aristotle in FAMILY
The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
Henry Ward Beecher in FAMILY
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Henry Ward Beecher in FAMILY
A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. [Proverbs 18:19]
Bible in FAMILY
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 FAMILY
Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.
Anthony Brandt in FAMILY
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.
Buddha in FAMILY
Never did I think that I became family entertainment.
Jimmy Buffet in FAMILY
I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.
William S. Burroughs in FAMILY
The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
Gilbert K. Chesterton in FAMILY
The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.
Charles Caleb Colton in FAMILY
It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.
Confucius in FAMILY
The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.
Confucius in FAMILY
Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time wondering when a child will turn in.
Ted Cook in FAMILY
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 in FAMILY
Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.
Jacques Delille in FAMILY
Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence
Charles Dickens in FAMILY
The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.
James G. Frazer in FAMILY
What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap.
Clarissa Graves in FAMILY
The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and insecurity, but the wordless commitment of families, which takes as its model mother-love. This is not to say that fathers have no place, for father-love,
Germaine Greer in FAMILY
Where can a person be better than in the bosom of their family.
Marmontel Gretry in FAMILY
Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender- these form the wealth of home.
Sarah J. Hale in FAMILY
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 in FAMILY
The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.
Louise Kapp Howe in FAMILY
My family begins with me, your family ends with you.
Iphicrates in FAMILY
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
Thomas Jefferson in FAMILY
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