quotes and sayings about family

Responsibility: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911



In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. ~William Blake



If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb



Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. ~Dorthea Lange



I pledge allegiance to the earth and to the flora, fauna and human life that it supports, one planet indivisible, with safe air, water & soil, economic justice, equal rights and peace for all. ~Author unknown, proposed new Pledge of Allegiance, as seen on a button at evolvefish.com



I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it. ~Bernard Berenson



The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye. ~Winston Churchill



As network administrator I can take down the network with one keystroke. It's just like being a doctor but without getting gooky stuff on my paws. ~Scott Adams ("Dogbert")



It isn't the size of the gift that matters, but the size of the heart that gives it. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994



Sex on television can't hurt you unless you fall off. ~Author Unknown



In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. ~Hans Nouwens



Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. ~E.F. Schumacher (Thanks, Arly!)



Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty." ~W.A. Wallis



Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science. ~Sigmund Freud



When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky. ~Buddha



Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. ~William Faulkner



A half-baked idea is okay as long as it's in the oven. ~Author Unknown



Our passions shape our books; repose writes them in the intervals. ~Proust, The Past Recaptured, 1927



Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals. ~Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, The Marriage of Figaro, 1784, translated



As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com