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Quotations
 | 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, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 3 likes |
 | The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents. — Karl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss psychiatrist 3 likes |
 | Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness. — André Gide, 1869-1951, French writer, Nobel 1947 3 likes |
 | Family life is an encroachment on private life. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 3 likes |
 | Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 3 likes |
| A happy family is but an earlier heaven. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 3 likes |
 | One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 2 likes |
 | 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, American poet 2 likes |
 | A man should never neglect his family for business. — Walt Disney, 1901-1966, American businessman & cartoonist 2 likes |
 | A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center. — Friedrich von Schlegel, 1772-1829, German writer 2 likes |
 | Making the family a top priority will invariably bring success. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 2 likes |
| The key ingredient in family communication is listening, really listening. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 2 likes |
 | The most important thing in the world is family and love. — John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach 2 likes |
 | The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other |
 | What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. — Mother Teresa, 1910-1997, Albanian-Indian nun & missionary |
 | We lived like that “Happy Family“ you sometimes see in traveling zoos: a lion caged with a lamb. It is a startling exhibit but the lamb has to be replaced frequently. |
 | A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones. |
 | I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots. |
 | Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we‘d give blood. |
Quotes in Verse
 | Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer. — Louise Glück, 1943-2023, American poet, Nobel 2020 5 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. — George Burns, 1896-1996, American comedian 3 likes |
 | I believe in large families: every woman should have at least three husbands. — Zsa Zsa Gabor, 1917-2016, Hungarian-American actress 3 likes |
 | If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
Movie Quotes
 | Am I not a man? And is a man not stupid? I'm a man, so I married. Wife, children, house, everything. The full catastrophe. — from the film Zorba the Greek (1964) 10 likes |
