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The MOUSE , The KEYBOARD and The Monitor over the years came closer and closer and became a family known as LAPTOP – Siddharth Astir
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. – Bertrand Russell
The story of my boyhood and that of my brothers is important only because it could happen in any American family. It did, and will again. – Earl Eisenhower
The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots. – George Eliot, Middlemarch
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
There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family." – Jerry Seinfeld
There is no such thing as fun for the whole family. – Jerry Seinfeld
There is nothing like a coup de foudre and absorption in family responsibility for maturing the male and pulling his scattered wits together. – Sir V Pritchett
There's a lot of heredity in that family. – Ralph Kiner
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
To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have lived well – Author Unknown
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
Today's family is built like a pyramid with all the intrafamilial rivalries, tensions, jealousies, angers, hatreds, loves and needs focused on the untrained, vulnerable, insecure, young, inexperienced and incompetent parental apex ... about whose incompetence our vaunted educational system does nothing. – Lawrence Kubie
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
We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed. – Henry David Thoreau
What is it about genus arboretum that socks us in the figurative solar plexus We see a logging truck go cruising down the road, stacked with a bunch of those fresh-cut giants, we feel like we lost a brother. Next thing you know, we're in The Brick, we're flopping money down on the bar. Wood. We're under a roof. Wood. We're walking the floors. Wood. Grabbing a pool cue. That's wood. Our friends in the forest carry a set of luggage from the mythical baggage carousel. Tree of life, tree of knowledge, family tree, Buddha's Bodhi tree. Page one of life, in the beginning. Genesis 322. Adam and Eve. They're kicking back in the garden of Eden and boom, they get an eviction notice. Why is that Lest they should also take of the tree of life, eat and live forever. A definitive Yahweh no-no. Be good to yourself, go out and plant a wet one on a tree. – Diane Frolov
What then is the American, this new man? He is either an European, or the descendant of an European, hence that strange misture of blood, which you will find in no other country. I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a french woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. He is an American. – Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer III: What is an American?
When the whole world starts behaving like a big family, protecting and caring each other, the world will become a good place to live! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle. – Henri-Frederic Amiel
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking. – Jessamyn West
you can't live life without consequences. They occur regardless of the decision. A consequence is an outcome, good or bad. You can live life without regrets and thats what makes it worth it. Or you could live with regret and end up hanging yourself but thats still good. You paid for the rope so your feeding someones family. Something to be proud of before you kick the bucket – George Orwell
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. – Desmond Tutu

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