Quotations About / On: FAMILY

  • 41.
    For every family had one cat at least in the bag.
    (Christopher Smart (1722-1771), British poet. Jubilate Agno. . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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  • 42.
    Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
    (Elizabeth II (b. 1926), British monarch, Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. quoted in Daily Mail (London, Oct. 19, 1989).)
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  • 43.
    Genes and family may determine the foundation of the house, but time and place determine its form.
    (Jerome Kagan (20th century), U.S. professor of development psychology. As quoted in Childhood, Robert H. Wozniak (1991). A viewer's guide produced in collaboration with Thirteen WNET.)
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  • 44.
    Still they raised a family doin' what comes natur'lly.
    (Irving Berlin (1888-1989), U.S. songwriter. "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly," Annie Get Your Gun, Irving Berlin Music Corp. (1946). Music composed by Hoagy Carmichael (1899-1981).)
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  • 45.
    A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.
    (Anthony Trollope (1815-1882), British novelist. Dolly Longestaffe, in The Way We Live Now, vol. 2, ch. xxviii, London, Chapman and Hall (1875).)
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  • 46.
    Welcome to the great American two-career family and pass the aspirin please.
    (Anastasia Toufexis (20th century), U.S. writer. "The Perils of Dual Careers," Time (May 13, 1985).)
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  • 47.
    Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fifth Selection, New York (1988).)
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  • 48.
    I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime.
    (Julius Caesar [Gaius Julius Caesar] (100-44 B.C.), Roman general, political leader, and first Roman dictator. Quoted in Suetonius, Life of Caesar, 74.)
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  • 49.
    It is in the love of one's family only that heartfelt happiness is known.
    (Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), U.S. president. Letter, October 26, 1801, to his daughter, Mary Jefferson Eppes. The Family Letters of Thomas Jefferson, p. 211, eds. E.M. Betts and J.A. Bear, Jr. (1966).)
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  • 50.
    Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
    (Cyril Connolly (1903-1974), British critic. The Unquiet Grave, pt. 3 (1944, rev. 1951).)
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