Quotes of Kin - somelinesforyou

“ Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. ”

- Jane Howard

“ The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended — and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended. ”

- Robert Frost

“ Other things may change us, but we start and end with family. ”

- Anthony Brandt

“ Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys' house. ”

- Leo Tolstoy

“ As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it. ”

- Buddy Hackett

“ Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes

“ Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts. ”

- Unknown

“ I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on. ”

- Ugo Betti

“ For the love of God, folks, don't do this at home. ”

- W. Somerset Maugham

“ No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family. ”

- Peace Pilgrim

“ Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely. ”

- Florence King

“ I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'A long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future. ”

- Romeo LeBlanc

“ These relatives were theorizing and telling her who did it. I think she's totally convinced he did it because the relatives told her he did. ”

- James Long

“ I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly. ”

- Roger Zelazny

“ We're an ideal political family, as accessible as Disneyland. ”

- Maureen Reagan

“ Family is always the most important part. ”

- Ekaterina Gordeeva

“ The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee. ”

- John Lyly

“ From my tribe I take nothing I am the maker of my own fortune. ”

- Tecumseh

“ Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ Those families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand. ”

- James Fenimore Cooper

“ We are ready to sacrifice our souls, our children and our families so as not to give up Iraq. We say this so no one will think that America is capable of breaki. ”

- Saddam Hussein

“ And Eleazar Aaron's son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bare him Phinehas: these are the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families. ”

- Bible

“ This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities and their villages. ”

- Bible

“ Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances… in short, by the influence of woman, in the lofty character of wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all. ”

- Edgar A. Guest

“ The hardening of the borders makes people far less likely to make that trek more than once. They're integrated into families. They have children born here and sometimes legal spouses. (The House bill) would have a profound effect on American families. ”

- Benjamin Johnson

“ Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah. ”

- Bible

“ Families should not be deceived. shows all contain crude and raunchy dialogue with sex-themed jokes and foul language. Even worse is the fact that Hollywood is peddling its filth to families with cartoons. ”

- Brent Bozell

“ No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors. ”

- Tom Thompson
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