Famous Quotes

"A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life."

Walter Bagehot on Family

More quotes about Family

• "I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future."

  LaToya Jackson on Family

• "If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher."

  Abdul Kalam on Family

• "Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten."

  David Ogden Stiers on Family

• "The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege."

  Charles Kuralt on Family

• "Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship."

  Margaret Mead on Family

More quotes by Walter Bagehot

• "No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist."

• "Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison."

• "A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

• "The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen."

• "The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards."