Quotations on Family

None but a mule denies his family.

~ Unknown

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.

~ Benjamin Franklin

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

~ George Santayana

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

~ Reinhold Niebuhr

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 Frost

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

~ Ogden Nash

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's lives. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.

~ Richard Bach

Well Mo its 1AM I'd better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.

~ Homer Simpson

The length of one's days matters less than the love of one's family and friends.

~ Gerald Ford

I would rather start a family than finish one.

~ Don Marquis

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

~ Ed Howe

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future. We make discoveries about ourselves.

~ Gail Lumet Buckley