Family quotes

Anonymous

There's a wonderful family called Stein,
There's Gert, and there's Epp and there's Ein:
Gert's poems are bunk,
Epp's statues are junk,
And no one can understand Ein.

Brown Jerry 1938-

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Churchill Sir Winston 1874-1965

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.

Cripps Agnes

Educate a man and you educate an individual - educate a woman and you educate a family.

Jarrell Randall 1914-1965

The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.

John Paul I I Pope 1920-

In contrast with its original vocation of peace, the family is sadly seen to be the scene of tension and oppression.

Kennedy John F. 1917-1963

The Family of Man is more than three bilion strong. It lives in more than one hundred nations. Most of its members are not white.
Most of them are not Christians. Most of them know nothing about free enterprise, or due process of law, or the Australian ballot.

Laing R.D. 1927-1989

When family relations are no longer harmonious, we have filial children and devoted parents.

Leach Jim

(Reith Lectures)

Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.

Mead Margaret 1901-1978

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

Montagu Ashley 1905-

Today, while the titular head of the family may still be the father, everyone knows that he is little more than chairman, at most, of the entertainment committee.

Montaigne Michel de 1533-1592

Essays

There is scarcely any less bother in the running of a family than in that of an entire state. And domestic business is no less importunate for being less important.