Happy Family Quotes - Page 2

• What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Family, Marriage

  166 Copy quote

• 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.

  Nhat Hanh

  Life, Family, Spiritual

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Present Moment Wonderful Moment: Mindfulness Verses for Daily Living: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.80, ReadHowYouWant.com

  71 Copy quote

  Show source

• What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

  Robert Breault

  Family, Blessing, Giving

  69 Copy quote

• The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

  Dodie Smith

  Funny, Family, Heart

  Dear Octopus (1938) p. 120

  100 Copy quote

  Show source

• All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter

  Joseph Addison

  Morning, Tea, Bread

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.129

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Family, Thank You, Fathers Day

  39 Copy quote

• If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Family, Children, Home

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

  Margaret Mead

  Family, Impossible Situations, Support

  "Culture and Commitment: A Study of the Generation Gap". Book by Margaret Mead, 1970.

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• we must take care of our families wherever we find them.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Family, Home, Care

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.257, A&C Black

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life

  George Cadbury

  Opportunity, Men, Garden

  47 Copy quote

• The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.

  Bill Vaughan

  Inspirational, Family, Happy

  36 Copy quote

• The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.

  Robert Breault

  Family, Children, Growing Up

  13 Copy quote

• Writers will happen in the best of families.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Family, Writing, Happens

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.11, Bantam

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Children, Believe, People

  9 Copy quote

• In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent.

  Robert Breault

  Family, Two, Unity

  9 Copy quote

• My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

  Dave Grohl

  Mother, Teacher, School

  "Dave Grohl: 'I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death. I started praying...'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2011.

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

  Robert Frost

  Family, Fathers Day, Mother

  Robert Frost, Elaine Barry (1973). “Robert Frost on writing”, Rutgers Univ Pr

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.

  Alfred Adler

  Style, Suffering, Opponents

  Alfred Adler (1964). “PROBLEMS OF NEUROSIS: A BOOK OF CASE HISTORIES”

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I sustain myself with the love of family.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Family, Cousin

  Twitter post from May 23, 2013

  63 Copy quote

  Show source

• That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.

  Deb Caletti

  Love, Family, Friends

  Deb Caletti (2009). “The Fortunes of Indigo Skye”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

  Confucius

  Family, Strength, Peace

  34 Copy quote

• A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.

  Brad Pitt

  Family, Loss, Venture

  "Brad Pitt Is Finally 'Satisfied'". Interview with Dotson Rader, parade.com. September 15, 2011.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Family, Beautiful

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

  30 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  A man should never neglect his family for business.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Family, Inspiring

  "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

  135 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is our basic right to be a happy person, happy family, and eventually a happy world. That should be our goal.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Goal, World

  7 Copy quote