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"There is no "royal road" to geometry." »Euclid, Said to king Ptolemy I
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"One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family." »Robert C. Byrd
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"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
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"To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense." »John Irving
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"A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love." »Gray Davis
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"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
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"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof." »Richard Bach
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"What do you gargle with? Pebbles? (to singer Tom Jones after a 1969 royal Variety performance)" »Prince Phillip
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"I am years gone from my family and miles away ... but they raid by telephone with jarring suddenness they have the cyclic constancy of a mortgage and they are inevitable and relentless, like the erosion of my remaining youth. Like certain frightening dreams, my family returns." »Jerrold Mundis
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"Like the old motto of a famous Sunday paper, 'All human life was there' in the stately circle of the Mountbatten-Windsors, as the family coped in semipublic with those everlasting elements of human interest-sickness, scandal, family tension and divorce." »John Pearson
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"There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures." »Josiah Gilbert Holland
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"That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional." »Laurie E. Colwin
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"Don Corleone Do you spend time with your family Good. Because a man that doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man." »Godfather, The
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"This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,-- This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England." »William Shakespeare
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"This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,--
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England." »William Shakespeare, "King Richard II", Act 2 scene 1
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"A royal garden is a very big place for slug, because slug is too slow, but it is small for a swallow which is too fast! Universe is a very big place for us simply because we are too slow! The day man becomes a swallow, universe will get smaller!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"O, now, for ever Farewell the tranquil mind farewell content Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars That make ambition virtue O, farewell Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell Othello's occupation's gone" »William Shakespeare
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"There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family."" »Jerry Seinfeld
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"Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know." »Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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"There's a lot of heredity in that family." »Ralph Kiner
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"There is no such thing as fun for the whole family." »Jerry Seinfeld
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"A married man with a family will do anything for money." »Charles De Talleyrand
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"Heirlooms we don't have in our family. But stories we've got." »Rose Cherin
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"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them." »Desmond Tutu
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"family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about." »Trey and Matt Stone Parker
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"The family is the nucleus of civilization." »William James Durant
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"The family is the country of the heart." »Giuseppe Mazzini
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"A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants." »Alexander Pope
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"Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family." »Anthony Brandt
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"Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family." »J. S. Bryan
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