| Citat |
Sagt av |
| Alla lyckliga familjer liknar varandra, varje olycklig familj är olycklig på sitt eget sätt. | Lev (Leo) Nikolajevitsj Tolstoj (1828-1910) |
| Att gifta sig, skaffa familj, ta emot barnen som kommer, ta hand om dem i denna värld och kanske till och med lära dem en del, är enligt min mening det största som en människa överhuvud taget kan lyckas med. | Franz Kafka (1883-1924) |
| Den mäktigaste i familjen - det är han som bestämmer vilket TV-program man ska se. | George Stilwell |
| Den som följer min himmelska Fars vilja, han är min bror och syster och mor. | Jesus Christ |
| Den som har makten i familjen känner man igen på att vederbörande bestämmer vilka TV-program man ska titta på. | Peter Sellers (1925-1980) |
| Den som inte kan lära sin familj, kan heller inte lära andra | Kinesisk Ordtak |
| Det var en behaglig stämning och gemytlig nonsens, som i en familjekrets | Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) |
| Det viktigaste en far kan göra för sina barn är att älska deras mor. | David O. McKay |
| Det är alltid gott att veta var man har sin familj och sina vänner, oavsett om man behöver dom eller inte. | A. A. Milne (1882-1956) |
| En "fin" familj är vanligtvis en familj som har sett bättre dagar. | Cleveland Amory (1917-1998) |
| En familj som håller samman är oövervinnerlig. | Bjornstjerne Bjornson (1832-1910) |
| En far kan vända ryggen åt sitt barn, bröder och systrar kan bli bittra fiender, män kan överge sina fruar, fruar sina män. Men en mors kärlek överlever allt. | Washington Irving (1783-1859) |
| En kärleksfull atmosfär i ditt hem är fundamentet för ditt liv. | Dalai Lama (1935-) |
| Famileliv skapar förakt - och barn. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Familjelivet skapar förakt och barn. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Familjelivet är visserligen inte alltid så fint som det borde vara. | Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) |
| Familjen är det viktigaste i världen. | Princess Diana Frances Spencer (1961-1997) |
| Familjen är en domstol som alltid har öppet. | Malcolm de Chazal (1929-) |
| Familjen är hjärtats fosterland. | Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872) |
| I en enig familj kommer lyckan av sig själv. | Kinesisk Ordtak |
| Ingen frågar någonsin en far hur han klarar av att kombinera äktenskap och en karriär. | Sam Ewing |
| Jag tror på stora familjer. Alla kvinnor borde ha åtminstone tre makar. | Zsa Zsa Gabor (1917-) |
| Mannen är familjens huvud, kvinnan är halsen som flyttar huvudet. | Kinesisk aforisme |
| Många människor som tror de har funnit ett hem, upptäcker att de bara har öppnat ett värdshus för sina vänner. | Norman Douglas (1886-1952) |
| Mödrar är en biologisk nödvändighet. Fäder är en av samhällets uppfinningar. | Margaret Mead (1901-1978) |
| Olyckor kan ske i de bästa familjer. | Charles Dickens (1812-1870) |
| Utan familjen hade han inte klarat att vara så mycket hemifrån. | Nils-Fredrik Nielsen (1945-) |
| Var kan man väl ha det bättre än i familjens skydd. | Jean-François Marmontel (1723-1799) |
| Familier, jeg hader jer! Tillukkede hjem, lukkede døre, jaloux vogtere af lykken. | André Gide (1869-1951) |
| Det, det handler om, er at have det så rart som muligt med hinanden i vores dagligdag. | Ann-Mari Max Hansen |
| Vinterlugten kom med sneen, og når mor skurede bageovnen ren før julebagningen. Alle barndommens lugte er lystbetonede, det er der forunderlige ved det, men sådan er det i mit barndomsland. | Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002) |
| Hvis dit hus ikke er fyldt med børn, når du har nået en vis alder, så bliver det fyldt med bizarre ideer og dårlige vaner. | Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804-1869) |
| Med dyrene er det så let. Der glemmer man sit afkom, når det bliver i stand til at klare sig selv. | Ejler Jørgensen |
| Jeg frygter for at forlade denne verden, for der er ikke nogen i min familie, der ved, hvordan man sætter en ny toiletpapirrulle i. | Emma Brombeck |
| Man bliver skældt ud, hvad enten man gør det forkerte eller det rigtige ... og så kan man jo lige så godt gøre det, der passer en bedst. | Eva Benneweis |
| Lykke er at have en stor hensynsfuld, elskelig og tæt forbundet familie i en anden by. | George Burns (1896-1996) |
| Man må have streng kontrol over sig selv, når man er sammen med sine børn, akkurat som var man sammen med sine fjender. | George Savile Halifax |
| Den moderne opfattelse af et hjem er blevet fortræffeligt udtrykt som det sted, man går hen fra garagen. | George Wickersham |
| Mor er familiens døde hjerte, som bruger fars løn på forbrugsgoder til at forbedre de omgivelser, som han spiser i, sover i og ser fjernsyn i. | Germaine Greer (1939-) |
| Hjemmet er et sted, hvor du kan kradse dig overalt hvor det klør. | Henry Ainsley |
| Juleaften er den stund om året, da mennesker og Gud forstår hinanden. | Kaj Munk |
| Når det drejer sig om det huslige pedanteri såsom strygning, hovedrengøring og blanke gulve siger jeg som Pippi Langstrømpe: Herregud, det er jo verdslige ting. | Karin Söder |
| Vi har ritualiseret samlivet med børnene til et slags snyde-slaraffenland, hvor børn og voksne gensidigt holder hinanden i skak ? for at undgå det værste besvær med hinanden. | Lise Roos |
| De fleste fødes i en familie, som de vokser op i, reagerer imod og siden vender tilbage til. | Malin Lindgren |
| Hvor der er børn, er der alligevel ingen rigtig fattigdom. | Martin Andersen Nexø |
| En familie er en enhed bestående ikke kun af børn, men også af mænd og kvinder, eventuelle dyr og forkølelser. | Ogden Nash (1902-1971) |
| Arvelighed er en bus, som alle vore forfædre kører i. Engang imellem stikker en af dem hovedet ud og gør os forlegne. | Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) |
| Ligesom følgerne af syfilis forsvinder følgerne af børneopdragelse aldrig fuldstændigt. | Robert Briffault |
| Mere fritid betyder mere spildtid. Arbejderen havde engang meget begrænset tid til at drikke sig fuld og tæve konen. Nu har han fået tid til både at drikke sig fuld, tæve konen - og kikke på fjernsynet. | Robert M. Hutchins (1899-1977) |
| Jeg gør ingen hemmelighed af, at jeg hellere vil ligge på en sofa end gøre rent under den. | Shirley Conran (1932-) |
| Sært nok frygter folk aldrig at få en snebold i nakken i deres eget hjem. | Steen og Stoffer |
| Uden godnatkys får man Kafka-drømme. | Steen og Stoffer |
| Slægtninges had er det voldsomste. | Tacitus (55-116) |
| Det hele ville blive meget lettere, hvis du som svigermor beundrer din svigersøn. | Teit Ritzau |
| Den i en søskendeflok, som aldrig nogensinde får mandlen juleaften vil, når han engang kommer til penge, købe mandler for dem alle sammen. | Tove Ditlevsen (1917-1976) |
| Hygge er en tilstand man oplever, hvis man har fred med sig selv, sin ægtefælle, skattevæsnet og sine indre organer. | Tove Ditlevsen (1917-1976) |
| Jeg forstår godt, at mange unge i dag kvier sig ved at stifte familie. Selve udtrykket har en klang af uendelighed, som når man slipper stemmen løs i en ekkodal. | Tove Ditlevsen (1917-1976) |
| Jeg tror på store familier. Enhver kvinde burde have mindst tre ægtemænd. | Zsa Zsa Gabor (1917-) |
| There has been a reevaluation of our slave philosophy that permitted us to be satisfied with the leftovers at the back door rather than demand a full serving at the family dinner table | Aaron Henry |
| I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. | Alexander the Great (356 f.Kr.-323 f.Kr.) |
| In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. | Alex Haley (1921-1992) |
| When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. | Alex Haley (1921-1992) |
| Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise - specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine | Allan Bloom |
| It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. | Anne Sexton (1928-1974) |
| To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause [the] humble labors of the family and school to be still more undervalued and shunned. | Catharine Esther Beecher |
| We should realize that the average family in America spends five minutes a week on politics. | Celinda Lake |
| My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'. | Charles Barkley (1963-) |
| By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. | Charles Wadsworth (1929-) |
| No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons. | Croesus of Lydia |
| All us Youngs could throw. I used to kill squirrels with a stone when I was a kid, and my granddad once killed a turkey buzzard on the fly with a rock. | Cy Young |
| Your basic extended family today includes your ex-husband or -wife, your ex's new mate, your new mate, possibly your new mate's ex and any new mate that your new mate's ex has acquired. | Delia Ephron |
| The families have become the doctors, the nurses and the social workers. | Dr. John Talbott |
| My mother used to pitch to me and my father would shag balls. If I hit one up the middle close to my mother, I'd have some extra chores to do. My mother was instrumental in making me a pull hitter. | Eddie Mathews |
| I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family... | Frances Wright |
| The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it | George Gilder |
| I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living. | Hal Boyle |
| Our own system of trying to guess what or how much a child's mind can assimilate results in cross purposes, misunderstanding, disappointments, anger and a general loss of harmony. | Jean Liedloff |
| I've got cousins galore. Mexicans just spread all their seeds. And the women just pop them out. | Jessica Alba (1981-) |
| My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life. | Jim Fox (1941-) |
| Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. | John Wilmot (2nd Earl of Rochester) (1647-1680) |
| I grew up to have my father's looks- my father's speech patterns-my father's posture- my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father | Jules Feiffer (1929-) |
| Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters. | M. F. K. Fisher |
| Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain | Martin Mull (1943-) |
| The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman | Mexican Proverb |
| In family snapshots the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash. | Michael Lesy |
| Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends - they will never go out of fashion. | Niki Taylor (1975-) |
| The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family | Paul Johnson |
| A father's words are like a thermostat that sets the temperature in the house | Paul Lewis (1966-) |
| The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have | Ring Lardner (1885-1933) |
| After all, what is a pedestrian? He is a man who has two cars-one being driven by his wife, the other by one of his children. | Robert Bradbury |
| One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family. | Robert C. Byrd |
| The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. | Theodore Hesburgh (1917-) |
| I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on. | Ugo Betti (1892-1953) |
| I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible...and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary. | Victor Borge (1909-2000) |
| Becoming a father is easy enough, but being one can be very rough | Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908) |
| You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back. | William D. Tammeus |
| The presidency is temporary-but the family is permanent. | Yvonne de Gaulle |
| Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act. | Alice Meynell |
| I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life. | Barbara Bush (1925-) |
| To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. | Barbara Bush (1925-) |
| I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is. | Charles Lamb (1775-1834) |
| When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps. | Dick Gregory (1932-) |
| In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony. | Eva Burrows |
| Those who think the family has had its day should think again. | Eva Burrows |
| 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. | Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) |
| More and more lower-middle-income families either live their lives in debt or leave the city altogether. The boom is strictly at the penthouse level. | George Steiner (1929-) |
| The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfilment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadnes | Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872) |
| It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. | Harper Lee (1926-) |
| Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind...cast-off and everyday clothing. | Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) |
| When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, "She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge." | Helen Hayes (1900-1993) |
| My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. | Indira Gandhi (1917-1984) |
| It is impossible to please all the world and one's father | Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) |
| My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law. | Jerry Seinfeld (1954-) |
| When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places. | John Cheever (1912-1982) |
| I got caught kissing. Like by my parents. It was so horrible. It's so embarrassing, I'm blushing. | Katie Holmes (1978-) |
| I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me | Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) |
| The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family. | Lee Iacocca (1924-) |
| My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life. | Lee Iacocca (1924-) |
| Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers | Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) |
| My father was often angry when I was most like him. | Lillian Hellman (1905-1984) |
| A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma. | Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992) |
| My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me everyday after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad. | Mickey Mantle (1931-1995) |
| In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions | Nathaniel Branden |
| A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold | Ogden Nash (1902-1971) |
| As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. | Pope John Paul II (1920-2005) |
| A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in | Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) |
| If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. | Thich Nhat Hanh (1926-) |
| A father's words are like a thermostat that sets the temperature in the house | Paul Lewis (1966-) |
| The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. | Theodore Hesburgh (1917-) |
| In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. | Alex Haley (1921-1992) |
| No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished? | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| Treat your family like friends and your friends like family. | Proverb |
| There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| A father is someone who carries pictures in his wallet where his money used to be | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| A happy family is but an earlier heaven. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life. | Jim Fox (1941-) |
| The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have | Ring Lardner (1885-1933) |
| We are one big family of people, trying to make our way through the unfolding puzzle of life. | Sara Paddison |
| She got her good looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon. | Groucho Marx (1890-1977) |
| Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other -- it doesn't matter who it is -- and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other. | Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) |
| By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. | Charles Wadsworth (1929-) |
| Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family. | Lee Iacocca (1924-) |
| The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father. | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) |
| We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents. | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| My father was a Creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey; my family, it seems, begins where yours left off | Alexandre Dumas Père (1802-1870) |
| I believe the only people that should be around a child and raising a child are people who absolutely, 100 percent love that child | Angelina Jolie (1975-) |
| But we survived, and we're a good family. I just don't want to dedicate one more tear, or watch my mother cry one more time. | Angelina Jolie (1975-) |
| The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone. | Ashley Montagu (1905-1999) |
| It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean. | Barbara Bush (1925-) |
| He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stands a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure, too. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| For this cause shall a man leave father and mother and shall cleave unto his wife | Bible |
| My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me | Bible |
| Children today know more about sex than I or my father did. | Bill Cosby (1937-) |
| Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. | Bill Cosby (1937-) |
| My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children. | Bill Cosby (1937-) |
| Parents are not quite interested in justice, they are interested in quiet. | Bill Cosby (1937-) |
| A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the | Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.) |
| If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him...The people who give you their food give you their heart. | Cesar Chavez (1927-1993) |
| Who teaches me for a day is my father for a lifetime | Chinese Proverbs |
| The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. | Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) |
| Remember as far as anyone knows, we're a nice normal family | Dan Castellaneta (1958-) |
| I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it. | Dan Quayle (1947-1947) |
| By profession I am a Soldier and take pride in that fact, but I am prouder to be a father | General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) |
| I learned early on that family, as far as my mother and father, were not an option. | Drew Barrymore (1975-) |
| Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back | Earl Wilson (1907-1987) |
| Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies | Edwin Hubbel Chapin (1814-1880) |
| The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father | Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) |
| Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son. | Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) |
| I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family... | Frances Wright |
| He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. | Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626) |
| Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house : that is the true middle-class unit. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. | George Eliot (1819-1880) |
| Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle. | Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881) |
| In that second it dawned on me that I had been living here for eight years with a strange man and had borne him three children. | Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) |
| My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer - but it was because of what my grandfather did to him. | Henry Ford (1863-1947) |
| We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents. | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his son to be | Homer J. Simpson (1955-) |
| It is a wise child that knows his own father | Homer J. Simpson (1955-) |
| Homer: [drunk] Look, the thing about my family is there's five of us. Marge, Bart, Girl Bart, the one who doesn't talk, and the fat guy. How I loathe him. | Homer Simpson (1955-) |
| In a husband there is only a man; in a married woman there is a man, a father, and mother, and a woman | Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) |
| Better a near neighbour than a distant cousin. | Italian Proverb |
| Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be. | Jane Austen (1775-1817) |
| 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. | John Donne (1572-1631) |
| The child whom many fathers share hath seldom known a father's care | John Gay (1685-1732) |
| All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter | Joseph Addison (1672-1719) |
| Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household. | Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt |
| The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you | Kendall Hailey |
| A bad father has never a good son | Latin Proverb |
| All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world. | Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) |
| Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters. | M. F. K. Fisher |
| To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose | Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180) |
| Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to have at least one jungle between themselves and their mothers-in-law. | Margaret Mead (1901-1978) |
| I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman. And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed. | Margaret Mead (1901-1978) |
| No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps in | Margaret Mead (1901-1978) |
| The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it. | Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) |
| It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election. | Margaret Thatcher (1925-) |
| A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| As a nation, a society, a family and an individual, we must be grateful to our great ancestors who dedicated their lives to laying the infrastructure of our livelihood today. Let’s continue their path and build upon it. | Master Jin Kwon (1957-) |
| Ain't no gay filter for the cash. | Michael Eric Dyson (1958-) |
| I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married | Molière (1622-1673) |
| The creation is as God's family; for its sustenance is from Him: therefore the most beloved unto God is the person who doeth good to God's family | Muhammad |
| I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population. | Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) |
| Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish. | Pope John Paul II (1920-2005) |
| Family is the most important thing in the world. | Princess Diana Frances Spencer (1961-1997) |
| The mother knows best whether the child be like the father | Proverb |
| A tree is known by its fruit | Proverb |
| It is a poor family that hath neither a whore nor a thief in it | Proverb |
| Like father, like son | Proverb |
| A hundred men can make an encampment, but it requires a woman to make a home | Proverb |
| A father is a banker provided by nature. | Proverb |
| An angry father is most cruel towards himself. | Publilius Syrus (85 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with | Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) |
| The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have | Ring Lardner (1885-1933) |
| My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow. | Rita Rudner (1955-) |
| Diogenes struck the father when the son swore | Robert Burton (1577-1640) |
| One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family. | Robert C. Byrd |
| Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich | Robert Frost (1874-1963) |
| The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. | Robert Frost (1874-1963) |
| Families break up when people take hints you don't intend and miss hints you do intend | Robert Frost (1874-1963) |
| You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. | Robert Frost (1874-1963) |
| The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended. | Robert Frost (1874-1963) |
| There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| A family is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| The best way to create a genuine "responsibility era" -- a genuine commitment to families and to the values they reflect -- is to begin with those to whom we owe the greatest responsibility -- those whom we most value -- our kids. Let's not just talk about it -- let's put kids first. | Senator John Kerry (1943-) |
| And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families. | Senator John Kerry (1943-) |
| How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted. | Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) |
| Thank God for the iron in the blood of our fathers | Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) |
| The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name. | Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) |
| A man should never neglect his family for business. | Walt Disney (1901-1966) |
| Remember how the Waltons used to say good night at the end of the show? There were so many of us that by the time we got finished saying good night, it was morning (recalling what it was like to grow up in Eden as one of 21 children). | William Dalton |
| Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers | William Feather (1889-1981) |
| Zounds! I was never so bethumped with words since I first called my brother's father dad | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| It is a wise father that knows his own child. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| The child is father of the man | William Wordsworth (1770-1850) |
| Der er tre vanskjebner: å miste sin far i ungdommen, sin kone i manndommen og ikke ha en sønn i alderdommen. | Kinesisk Ordtak |
| Der var en behagelig Stemning og gemytlig Vrøvl, som i en Familiekreds. | Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) |
| En fin familie er vanligvis en familie som har sett bedre dager. | Cleveland Amory (1917-1998) |