Popular Quotes

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes. - Robert Louis Stevenson One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost

He who has daughters is always a shepherd.

- Old saying

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.

- Brendan Behan

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

- Abraham Lincoln

I have called the principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved by the term of Natural Selection.

- Charles Darwin

Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.

- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

My father was frightened by his mother. I was frightened by my father, and I'm damned well going to make sure that my children are frightened of me.

- George

There are no illegitimate children - only illegitimate parents.

- Leon R. Yankwich

All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

- Leo Tolstoy

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

- Randall Jarrell

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

- Josh Billings

I am he As you are me And we are all together.

- John Lennon

Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.

- Joe Cook

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

- Jane Austen

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

- R. D. Laing

The family is the American fascism.

- Paul Goodman

The thing that impresses me most about North America is the way parents obey their children.

- Edward, Duke of Windsor

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

- Peter de Vries

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to do it rightly is an art like any other.

- Freya Stark

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

- Margaret Mead

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

- Victor Hugo

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

- Theodore Hesburgh

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.

- Ashley Montagu