Happy Family Quotes - Page 4

• He who is really kind, can never be unhappy

  Confucius

  Love, Life, Family

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• Reminded of favorite poem by Wendy Cope which goes: At Christmas little children sing and merry bells jingle. The cold winter air makes our hands and faces tingle. And happy families go to church and cheerily they mingle, And the whole business is unbelievably dreadful if you're single.

  Helen Fielding

  Children, Winter, Air

  Helen Fielding (2016). “Bridget Jones's Diary: Picador Classic”, p.177, Pan Macmillan

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• The love that exists between people who share religious values and experiences can be the most satisfying and unifying force this side of the solid, happy family.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Religious, People, Sides

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• 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

  Family, Girl, Famous Love

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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• I'd love to win a Grammy! Not ambitious or anything. And just having a really lovely bunch of kids and a happy family life, would be good for me.

  Bat for Lashes

  Kids, Winning, Lovely

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• I think I've indulged in a pathological, chronic nostalgia over the years, which I've traced back to my childhood. I was the last of four children, born well after the other three, so I was left on my own in a big, quiet house where most of the people had left, and even the echoes of a happy family had all died out.

  Guy Maddin

  Children, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• On screen, we have to pretend we hate each other, or dislike each other, or don't want to talk or listen to each other, but off camera, it's just one big happy family. We hang out off the show and we play cards together and go have dinner together.

  Emilio Rivera

  Hate, Play, Together

  Source: collider.com

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• The Palestinians are not going anywhere - -they have nowhere to go. The Israeli Jews also aren't going anywhere - they have nowhere to go. But we cannot become one happy family, because we are not. So, we have to divide the house into two smaller apartments and learn how to say, "good morning" in the hall every day. Eventually, perhaps we will pop in on each other for a cup of coffee. But we need this semi-detached house, a two-family unit.

  Amos Oz

  Morning, Coffee, Two

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Happy family gives you a brick-by-brick foundation that you build on for the rest of your life. And then it teaches you so many things that are important in your life, like being a good sport, and not thinking negatively, and always having a good feeling for your fellow man. We went to wonderful schools. We just had a great life and I'm ever grateful for it.

  Polly Allen Mellen

  Sports, Grateful, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that maybe happy families don't need stories the way unhappy families need stories. Maybe they're too busy living that they don't actually step back and talk about life like the Anton Chekhov quote. I prefer Anton Chekhov to Lev Tolstoy, and the reason is because of what he leaves out. Sometimes I think Tolstoy had a theory that he was proving and he proved it. Chekhov is more ambiguous.

  Peter Orner

  Thinking, Unhappy, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Happy family: The existence and maintenance of [this] is thought to make a politician fit for public office. According to this theory, the public are less concerned by whether or not they are effectively represented than by the need to be assured that the penises and vaginas of public officials are only used in legally sanctioned circumstances.

  John Ralston Saul

  Office, Needs, Maintenance

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• Happy Families. What's that all about, eh? A bloody busted flush is what it is. You surround yourself with other people so the night doesn't seem quite so dark. Shout down the sound of the wind with arguments about whose turn it is to wash the dishes. Best not to kid yourself. Best not to give any hostages to fortune. You're on your own in the end. Always. Where else would you want to be?

  Mike Carey

  Kids, Dark, Night

  "All His Engines". Graphic novel by Mike Carey, January 2005.

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• Bruno opened his eyes in wonder at the things he saw. In his imagination he had tough that all the huts were full of happy families, some of whom sat outside on rocking chairs in the evening and told stories about how things were so much better when they were children and they'd had nowadays. He thought that all the boys and girls who lived there would be in different groups, playing tennis or football, skipping and drawing out squares for hopscotch on the ground. As it turned out, all the things he thought might be there-wern't.'' -The boy in the striped Pajamas

  John Boyne

  Girl, Football, Children

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• In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons of different energies are slowed down at different rates. If Tolstoy had known this, would he have recognised the terrible untruth at the beginning of Anna Karenina? 'All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own particular way.' In fact it's the other way around. Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalisation. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Glasses, Air, People

  "Written on the Body". Book by Jeanette Winterson, 1992.

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• Her kitsch was the image of home, all peace, quiet, and harmony, and ruled by a loving mother and a wise father. It was an image that took shape in her after the death of her parents. The less her life resembled the sweetest of dreams, the more sensitive she was to its magic, and more than once she shed tears when the ungrateful daughter in a sentimental film embraced the neglected father as the windows of the happy family's house shone out into the dying day.

  Milan Kundera

  Wise, Mother, Dream

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• What a type of happy family is the family of the Sun! With what order, with what harmony, with what blessed peace, do his children the planets move around him, shining with light which they drink in from their parent's in at once upon him and on one another!

  Augustus William Hare

  Children, Moving, Blessed

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• Families without songs are unhappy families.

  Pat Conroy

  Song, Singing, Unhappy

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Great Santini: A Novel”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• ... good teachers, like Tolstoy's happy families, are alike everywhere.

  Bel Kaufman

  Teacher, Teaching, Good Teacher

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them overcoming the hardship. This skill is particularly important for children, whose identity tends to get locked in during adolescence.

  Bruce Feiler

  Children, Skills, People

  Bruce Feiler (2013). “The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play and Much More”, p.159, Hachette UK

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• When Tolstoy wrote that all happy families are alike, what he meant was that there are no happy families.

  Susan Cheever

  Treetops pt. 2, ch. 11 (1991)

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• Thank God for the iron in the blood of our fathers

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Father, Blood, Iron

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Family, Silence, Unhappy

  "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?". Book by Jeanette Winterson, 2011.

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• My parents split when I was 13. For a youngster, it's quite devastating. One minute you're all happy families, then everything changes.

  Vinnie Jones

  Parent, Splits, Things Change

  "Vinnie Jones: My family life". Interview with Dina Behrman, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2012.

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• At first, there was a separation of clubs and sketch comedy. Now there's all kinds of comedy, making us one big happy family.

  Jen Kirkman

  Clubs, Firsts, Comedy

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• I was raised to think about philosophy and religious thought and the soul and the spirit of humankind in a different way, also really socially progressive teachings of the Baha'i faith, the equality of men and women, the elimination of racial prejudice, the equality of science and religion, so it was a big cauldron of big ideas in my household. And we were weird and unhappy family, but nonetheless that was a really positive thing that came out of it.

  Rainn Wilson

  Religious, Philosophy, Teaching

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. November 11, 2010.

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