Quotes in the category family

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

J.R.R. Tolkien

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

Happiness [is] only real when shared

Jon Krakauer

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

Jay McInerney

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

Mitch Albom

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

Oscar Wilde

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.

Chuck Palahniuk

That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.

Deb Caletti

Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.

Ann Brashares

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

George Bernard Shaw

When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?"it's a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.

Erma Bombeck

You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.

Elizabeth Gilbert