Family quotes and sayings

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

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

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. - opening line from Anna Karenina

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

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

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Becoming responsible adults is no longer a matter of whether children hang up there pajamas or put dirty towels in the hamper, but whether they care about themselves and others -- and whether they see everyday chores as related to how we treat this planet.