884 private quotes tagged family

“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.” — Nelson Mandela

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“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“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.” — Jack Welch

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“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” — Leo Tolstoy

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“Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.” — George Eliot

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“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.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.” — Rodney Dangerfield

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“Actors are one family over the entire world.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.” — Rodney Dangerfield

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“Family is the most important thing in the world.” — Princess Diana

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“There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.” — Jerry Seinfeld

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“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.” — Lee Iacocca

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“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

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“The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.” — Bertrand Russell

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“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.” — Samuel Butler

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“So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.” — Will Rogers

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“Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.” — Donald Rumsfeld

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“If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.” — Bernard Meltzer

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“Spend some time this weekend on home improvement improve your attitude toward your family.” — Bo Bennett

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“I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.” — Michael Jackson

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“A man should never neglect his family for business.” — Walt Disney

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“Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!” — O. Henry

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