Quotes on Family

As long as I continue to hear 'normal' people telling me I am too childish, I know I'm doing just fine.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.

What is a family, after all, except memories? Haphazard and precious as the contents of a catch-all drawer in the kitchen.

Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.

It doesn't matter what you all think, what you all say about me, because when I go home at night, the same people that I look in the face, my family that I love, that's all that really matters to me.

When the family is destroyed, society eventually disintegrates.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason

The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it can expand to one's family, to one's neighborhood, to one's community and so on.

As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

I am truly a "lone traveler" and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Our children are extensions of ourselves in ways our parents are not, nor our brothers and sisters, nor our spouses.

The family is more sacred than the state.

To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or her own family?