Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. – Oscar Wilde
Actors are one family over the entire world. – Eleanor Roosevelt
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. – Benjamin Franklin
Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people – your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way. – Barbara Bush
The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going. – George Carlin
I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes. – Barack Obama
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning. – Henry David Thoreau
The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family. – Eminem
Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question. – Willard Scott
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others. – Pope John Paul II
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
The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them. – Bill Cosby
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands. – Douglas Adams
On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been. – Bobby Jindal
Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with. – Oliver Hudson
I am confident that nobody… will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself. – Nelson Mandela
I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it. – Rodney Dangerfield
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. – Leo Tolstoy
With all my fans I got a family again. – Tupac Shakur
The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it. – Margaret Sanger
