Family Quotes

charity begins in your own family.
Begum Aga Khan



Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.
Albom, Mitch



The renunciation of marriage and family is thus to be understood in terms of this vision: I renounce what, humanly speaking, is not only the most normal but also the most important thing. I forgo bringing forth further life on the tree of life, and I live in the faith that my land is really God - and so I make it easier for others, also, to believe that there is a kingdom of heaven. I bear witness to Jesus Christ, to the Gospel, not only with words, but also with this specific mode of existence, and I place my life in this form at his disposal.
Pope Benedict XVI



A family without a black sheep is not a typical family.
Heinrich Theodor Bll



A man should never neglect his family for business.
Walter Elias Disney



The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
Robert Lee Frost



"To opine that, unknown to humans, God had hitherto created some people to be homosexuals and lesbians (i.e., sexual orientations) is tantamount to creating God in our own image and introducing a cancerous element into the fabric of the African understanding of marriage and family."
The Most Reverend Peter Jasper Akinola



Mind the time when you would be lying before your family members, and there would be no physician to stop it (death), and no friend to benefit you.
al-Hadi, Ali



The bearer of this letter is an old friend of mine not quite the right side of the blanket as they say in fact he is the son of a first rate butcher but his mother was a decent family called Hyssopps of the Glen so you see he is not so bad and is desireus of being the correct article.
Margaret Mary Julia



You will have a great deal of unreserved discourse with Mrs. K., I dare say, upon this subject, as well as upon many other of our family matters. Abuse everybody but me.
Jane Austen



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.
Richard Bach



One of the astounding qualities of that family was their capacity to fill innocent bystanders with thoughts of murder.
Tom Baker



I learned later that the surgeon who put Dole back together after he was so badly injured in World War II was an Armenian whose family had deep memories of the genocidal campaign the Turks had waged against them.
Joseph Robinette



Why should I be my aunt, or me, or anyone? What similarities boots, hands, the family voice I felt in my throat, or even the National Geographic and those awful hanging breasts held us all together or made us all just one?
Elizabeth Bishop



The family spiritual void has left the field open to rock music. The result is nothing less than parents loss of control over their childrens moral education at a time when no one else is seriously concerned with it.
Allan David Bloom