Expression Quote by Thomas Bowdler

Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family.

— Thomas Bowdler

“they are shrouding words so that families cannot find them.”

— Lucille Clifton

In families there are frequently matters of which no one speaks, nor even alludes. There are no words for these matters. As the binding…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Uncommon expressions are a disfigurement rather than an embellishment of discourse.

— David Hume

With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.

— Andrew Solomon

Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.

— Andrew Vachss

The one thing I believe is that families are off-limits. And I think my husband said it, and he was clear on that. And…

— Michelle Obama

“Family is, after all—however irritating—family.”

— William H. Patterson Jr

Is One Of The Strongest Words Anyone Can Say, Because The Letters of FAMILY Means:

— Anonymous

It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.

— Anthony Horowitz

“In normal families, unbroken families, the mother and the father are like two hands cupped together, and held by those hands are the children.…

— Kirsty Eagar

A mother understands what a child does not say.

— Jewish Proverb