Quotes on Family, Family Life

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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. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1874–1936)

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. (John Paul II, 1920–2005)

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it. (Haniel Long, 1888–1956)

Govern a family as you would cook a small fish – very gently. (Chinese proverb)

The family is one of nature's masterpieces. (George Santayana, 1863–1952)

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices. (George Bernard Shaw, 1856–1950)

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have. (Ring Lardner, 1885–1933)

Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. (Chinese proverb)

For most women who are considering it, single motherhood is not their first choice, but it's not their last one either. They would prefer a husband in their family, but they'd rather have a family without one than no family at all. (Anne Cassidy)

One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. (Proverb)

All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. (Leo Tolstoy, 1828–1910)

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, 1892–1971)

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. (Confucius)

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. (Buddha)

The family is the school of duties... founded on love. (Felix Adler, 1851–1933) (Remember: he said the same basic sentence: If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours!)