Quotes on About Family

The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.

I sustain myself with the love of family.

The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.

In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.