| "When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it." »Lao Tzu |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them." »Edward Irving Koch |
| "You type as fast as a one footed elephant." »Aaron J. Munzer |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven." »Tryon Edwards |
| "If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster." »Isaac Asimov |
| "If I come back as an animal in my next lifetime, I hope it's some type of parasite, because this is the part where I take it EASY" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "I am a poet. I lock myself in my room with a type writer so I can talk in terms of the world that has put me here." »Eric Pio |
| "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 |
| "I'm not judging people, I'm judging their actions. It's the same type of distinction that I try to apply to myself, to judge, but not be judgmental." »Jeff Melvoin |
| "I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living." »Hal |
| "It is suggested that, in domestic violence at least, the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is of far less importance to the outcome than the passion generated in the attacker. The man who has lost control will cause serious injuries in many cases, quite irrespective of the weapon he uses and regardless of the certainty of detection and punishment." »Colin Greenwood |
| "If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at some guys, throw one of those little baby-type pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think of how crazy war is, and while they're thinking, you can throw a real grenade." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before." »Colin Greenwood |
| "There's a lot of heredity in that family." »Ralph Kiner |
| "The family is the country of the heart." »Giuseppe Mazzini |
| "Heirlooms we don't have in our family. But stories we've got." »Rose Cherin |
| "family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about." »Trey and Matt Stone Parker |
| "There is no such thing as fun for the whole family." »Jerry Seinfeld |
| "You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them." »Desmond Tutu |
| "The presidency is temporary-but the family is permanent." »Yvonne De Gaulle |
| "A family, although not a necessity, is the ultimate luxury." »Eric Pio |
| "If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "Many men can make a fortune by very few can build a family." »J. S. Bryan |
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