“[Families] are made to make you forget yourself occasionally so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.”
Others on Family
Carl Sandburg
2 quotes“A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.”
Jim Butcher
1 quote“There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure.”
Pope John XXIII
1 quote“The family is the first essential cell of human society.”
Amy Tan
1 quote“A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.”
Jodi Picoult
1 quote“We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?”
Sigmund Freud
1 quote“A man who has been the indisputable favourite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.”
Pope John Paul II
1 quote“As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.”
Sir Francis Bacon
1 quote“He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises either o...”
Charles R. Swindoll
1 quote“A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.”
John Updike
1 quote“Who'll hold families together, if everybody has to live? Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing w...”
Thich Nhat Hanh
1 quote“The son needs the father to have access to his source, and the father needs the son to have access to the future and the...”
Euripides
1 quote“Noble fathers have noble children.”