“Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.”
Quotes about family
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“The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.”
“There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.”
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
“Actors are one family over the entire world.”
“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.”
“I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.”
“I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.”
“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
“I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.”
“The most important thing in the world is family and love.”
“Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.”
“A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.”
“My work and my family are very important to me.”
“There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.”
“There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.”
“If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.”
“So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.”
“The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.”
“I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.”
“My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.”
“In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.”
“I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'”
“I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.”