Quotes with family

  • Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that's really what The Aristocrats is based on - what will a family do out of desperation.
  • The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.
  • A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
  • I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.
  • As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
  • In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.
  • A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.
  • The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
  • Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
  • To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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  • Kofi Annan Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
    Source: The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General (1998)
    ― Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Sir John Bowring A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
    ― Sir John Bowring
     
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  • Leo Tolstoy All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Beatrice Webb ... if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.
    ― Beatrice Webb
    English sociologist and economist (1858 - 1943)
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  • Marguerite Duras A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began.
    ― Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Mario Puzo A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
    Source: The Godfather
    ― Mario Puzo
    American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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  • Brigitte Nielsen All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.
    ― Brigitte Nielsen
    Danish actress, model and singer (1963 - )
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  • Barbara Bush Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
    ― Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • August Strindberg Family... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
    ― August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Oscar Wilde Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
    ― Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Kofi Annan If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.
    ― Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott 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
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Valerie Solanas Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
    ― Valerie Solanas
    American feminist and author (1936 - 1988)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Arthur Laffer When you look at the world, everyone in the world who cares about his or her family wants to have a major portion of their assets in the United States because we are the growth country and the freedom loving country.
    ― Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Andre Maurois Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
    ― Andre Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Ben Foster 'A Streetcar Named Desire' is one of the best, if not the best, modern American plays. It deals with family dynamics, mental health, PTSD, war, and love. It's hard to beat.
    ― Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Carolyn See 'The Talk-Funny Girl' opens with a glum picture of a desperately poor rural New England family. Poverty has so brutalized the family that the ordinary laws and rules governing humanity have eroded, turning systems of behavior upside down.
    ― Carolyn See
    American writer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Joe Dimaggio A ball player has got to be kept hungry be become a big leaguer. That is why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues.
    ― Joe Dimaggio
     
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  • Carroll Quigley A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals--a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family.
    Source: Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    ― Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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