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I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

Erma Bombeck
US author & humorist (1927 - 1996)


A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by mother, who sees that the others get it.

Marcelene Cox


The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.

Calvin Trillin
US columnist (1935 - )


Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

Martin Mull
US comedian and actor (1943 - )


The bonds that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.

Richard Bach


We are totally opposed to abortion under any circumstances. We are also opposed to abortifacient drugs and chemicals like the Pill and the IUD, and we are also opposed to all forms of birth control with the exception of natural family planning.

Judie Brown, President, American Life Lobby


The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.

Malcolm De Chazal


A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

Alexander Pope
English poet & satirist (1688 - 1744)


A married man with a family will do anything for money.

Charles De Talleyrand


If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)


If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)


Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns
US actor & comedian (1896 - 1996)


A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

Ogden Nash
US humorist & poet (1902 - 1971)


Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Chapter 1, first line
Russian mystic & novelist (1828 - 1910)


There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.

Tom Robbins
US novelist (1936 - )


Love is this divine ingredient. It alone describes what can be our perfect relationship to our Heavenly Father and our family and neighbors, and the means by which we accomplish His work.

David B. Haight


The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.

Mary Catherine Bateson


The family is the country of the heart.

Giuseppe Mazzini
Italian patriot & politician (1805 - 1872)


A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.

Gray Davis


The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.

George Eliot, Middlemarch
English novelist (1819 - 1880)




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