471 Quotes About Families

Try not to be a man of success, but a man of value." - Albert Einstein

The private decisions we make about where we want to raise our families, the agreement we make with other parties, and the amount of work we decide to do, are all choices that have an effect on our personal health, wealth, and happiness.

Calling a nuclear group with a mom and a pop and their kids a family is like calling a field of bluestem a prairie. It's the rich diversity of grasses and forbs that makes a prairie work, just as it's the rich diversity of parents and children, grandparents and cousins, aunts and uncles providing nourishment and support that makes a family work.

It needs to be said that sometimes my mom forgets important details when she talks. Like the time she told us she was considering leather (couches, it turns out), or when I was little and she said, "Here's a napkin to put your balls in" (the Atomic Fireballs that I was eating, she meant).

All the Kamals were fluent in irritation. They loved each other but were almost always annoyed by each other, in ways that were both generalised and existential (why is he like that?) and also highly specific (how hard is it to remember to put the top back on the yoghurt?).

Eine Familie, die keine schwarzen Schafe hat, ist keine charakteristische Familie."("A family without a black sheep is not a typical family.")

Nuclear Weapons aren't much of a threat, today; compared to Families of the world, going Nuclear.

Modern families are complicated things. Siblings, half siblings, stepparents, stepcousins, what have you. You can't pick who you're born to, that's for sure.

My wife thinks I talk too much------probably.