Family Quotes

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family, through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.

As a whole forest becomes fragrant by the existence of a single tree with sweet-smelling blossoms in it, so a family becomes famous by the birth of a virtuous son.

The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.

Peace and war begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in our own families. If we want to spread joy, we need for every family to have joy.

The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.

Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.

When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd wastemy life and be a poet. They were right.

Don't join too many gangs. Join few if any. Join the United States and join the family- But not much in between unless a college.

Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.