Large Family Quotes
37 quotes by 35 authors
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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
— George Burns
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Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate…
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.
— Henry David Thoreau
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We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.
— Nancy Mitford
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I was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it's funny, because most of my best friends come from very large families. So it always felt…
— Sophia Bush
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The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me.
— Nevil Shute
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A large family makes you accept sharing your parents.
— Martha Reeves
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A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money.
— Anne Northup
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There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.
— Herbert V. Prochnow
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In a world often marked by selfishness, a large family is a school of solidarity and sharing; and this attitude is to the benefit of…
— Pope Francis
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I believe in large families: every woman should have at least three husbands.
— Zsa Zsa Gabor
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We do not know what we can bear until we are put to the test. Many a delicate mother, who thought that she could not…
— Orison Swett Marden
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In the Age of Perfect Virtue, men lived among the animals and birds as members of one large family. There were no distinctions between superior…
— Benjamin Hoff
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A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals--a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family.
— Carroll Quigley
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I was from such a large family that when I first met my wife, I told her: 'You can go work outside of the house…
— Robert Rodriguez
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I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's going to get edited. I think that comes from being…
— Amy Sedaris
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I wasn't a cliquey person, and I think that's because I came from a large family. I got along with everybody, and I usually got…
— Amy Sedaris
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I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one.
— Alexander McCall Smith
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Coming from a large family makes you feel protected - you have friends and allies.
— Paul McGann
Who Wrote These Large Family Quotes
35 authors contributed a total of 37 Large Family Quotes, led by these top contributors: