Top 100 Sayings About A Happy Family
#1. I may have spent long enough in your orbit to have absorbed your ferocious conviction that a happy family cannot be a mere myth or that even if it is, better to die trying for the fine if unattainable than sulking in passive, cynical resignation that hell is other people you're related to.
Lionel Shriver
#2. Because forgiveness connects principles, it connects people. It is a key, it opens locked doors, it is the beginning of an honest path, and it is one of our best hopes for a happy family.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#3. My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.
Dave Grohl
#4. I'd love to win a Grammy! Not ambitious or anything. And just having a really lovely bunch of kids and a happy family life, would be good for me.
Bat For Lashes
#5. You know-portraits are odd things." "How do you figure?" I asked. "Well at the time, that portrait told the whole story. It told the truth. We were a family-a happy family. Now that same portrait just looks like a lie.
Brian Joyce
#7. You come from a happy family; you want to create a happy family.
Emilia Clarke
#8. However you define success - a happy family, good friends, a satisfying career, robust health, financial security, the freedom to pursue your passions - it tends to be accompanied by a couple of qualities.
Roy F. Baumeister
#9. You can't raise happy kids in a happy family if you aren't happy and don't know who you are. You can't pin your life on someone else's happiness.
Jean Oram
#10. You can't have a happy family if you don't have a happy marriage.
Jeremy Sisto
#11. But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.
George Cadbury
#12. Seven things money can't buy:
A happy family
True Love
Passion
Time
Knowledge
Respect
Inner peace
Steven Aitchison
#13. You want a happy family?"
"I'd love a miserable one where everyone hated each other."
"Why?"
"So we could find redemption in each other's arms.
Peter Tieryas
#14. ...nowadays, everyone seemed to be dreaming of absolutely everything. Traveling and loving and having a fantastic career and a happy family, all while being thin, beautiful, popular, and in touch with their spiritual side.
Katarina Bivald
#15. I'm pleased to say I grew up in a happy family in Dublin. I feel we're very close.
Domhnall Gleeson
#16. Her biggest goal in life was to have a happy family despite her shortcomings. Now all she wanted was to get as far away as possible. A man like Jack didn't deserve anything she had to offer, no matter how little and insignificant.
Madison Barlow
#17. The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
Bill Vaughan
#18. I heard of that bloodthirsty old murderer Josef Stalin inviting all nations to join a happy family of folks devoted to the abolition of tyranny and intolerance!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#19. Part of the doctrinal system in the United States is the pretense that we're all a happy family, there are no class divisions, and everybody is working together in harmony. But that's radically false.
Noam Chomsky
#20. The suburbs are the American dream, right? Living in a nice house, having a good job, a happy family.
Cheryl Hines
#21. I hope we will be able to have a happy family ourselves.
Kate Middleton
#23. To have a happy family...is to enjoy an earlier heaven.
Og Mandino
#24. The House of Winter - such a happy family are we. - Coe
Andrea Cremer
#25. Just like other ordinary people, I want to have a happy family.
Lee Byung-hun
#26. Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I say: no, that's not what you want. You'll settle for those things, but you really want a monkey that does your evil bidding. Pullman is a genius just for this.
Maureen Johnson
#27. Stargazing is the story of a happy family plunged into an unexpected drama: it's poignant, warm, and unpredictable. I enjoyed it hugely.' -- Julie Cohen
Julie Cohen
#28. Actually, before creating a family, it is necessary for a person to be already happy
Sunday Adelaja
#29. Yeah, but before anything, I think in 6 years somehow I've grown up to have a beautiful home, 2 beautiful stepchildren, a beautiful husband, my family is healthy and happy. I'm financially ok and I do what I love for a living. That's what I think, and I think god, how did I get so lucky.
Angelina Jolie
#30. What a happy woman I am, living in a garden, with books, babies, birds and flowers, and plenty of leisure to enjoy them. Sometimes I feel as if I were blest above all my fellows in being able to find happiness so easily.
Rosamunde Pilcher
#31. Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
Charles Dudley Warner
#32. Life was too short though to agonize over the little stuff; sometimes you had to do what was best for you and if your family loved you they would be happy regardless.
L.A. Fiore
#33. My family is happy. That makes my job a lot easier. For the fans, I try to put it all out there on the floor.
LeBron James
#34. With true love, you can move mountains, make unusual sacrifices, live a life of deprivations and still be happy.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#35. I very much enjoyed doing 'Law & Order,' playing a killer - that was fun, and they had a family feel around the set, so it was a happy show to do even though the subject matter was quite the opposite.
Carol Burnett
#36. There are four pillars to a happy marriage: respect one another as individuals; (give) soft answers; (practice)financial honesty; (conduct) family prayer.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#37. Yeah, I like working in television, a lot. I really enjoyed my time on 'Lost.' I like developing that hint of family with people. I mean, if you're on a happy set. If you're on a set where there's some sour apples, then I don't like working in television.
Terry O'Quinn
#38. Happy Holidays
Is it not this day to smile?
Is it yet a time to give?
Is this friend as old as good?
Is my family so well?
Santa is just on his way,
Bringing gifts and love tonight,
Have a prosperous New Year!
And a happy day to last!
J.M.K. Walkow
#39. When you've been poor all your life, you never really think it could be any other way. And sometimes you're even happy, because at least you've got your family and your health and your arms and legs and a roof over your head.
Marie Lu
#40. I want to be happy because it is beneficial for me but also because I want to be a messenger of happiness to my friends and family.
Susan Harris
#41. I'm very happy for the Contreras family. They're out. Now they've got a chance to experience life the way I did as a kid. You know, his kids are going to have a real chance in life now, and the same way that I had it.
Rafael Palmeiro
#42. Under her thick pancake makeup, her skin had been pockmarked, but he would stare at her adoringly from his cot at night and imagine her scars were constellations, a secret map to a far-off, happy place.
Sarah Addison Allen
#43. I am not a fairy godmother or anything of that sort, but I hope to give you a happy home and a good education, and to send you out into the world true, brave, generous men, prepared to serve God truly all the days of your life."
~Aunt Persis
Constance Savery
#44. You go to work, you go home, you've got a family and the sun's still shining ... you're happy. - Sherri L. Smith, (Flygirl, 2008)
Sherri L. Smith
#45. What a type of happy family is the family of the Sun! With what order, with what harmony, with what blessed peace, do his children the planets move around him, shining with light which they drink in from their parent's in at once upon him and on one another!
Augustus William Hare
#46. My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.
Jet Li
#47. By the time I'm 35, I'll probably want to have a family. I'd be happy doing that, teaching my kids to do the right things, to do good things.
Brittany Howard
#48. This, I thought, is why Bill and I had worked so hard for so many years to help build a better world - so Chelsea could grow up safe and happy and one day have a family of her own, and so every other child would have the same chance. I
Hillary Rodham Clinton
#49. I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing percussion very young, because I had some uncles who were musicians and all my aunts were singers.
Ronaldinho
#51. Character is destiny. For the cronic do-gooder, the happy-go-lucky sociopath, the dysfunctional family, under the gun everyone diverts to who they are. We may hunger to map out a new course, but for most of us, the lines have been drawn since we were 5.
Mary McCormack
#52. I would like to continue to make art by being able to do what I love and have that make it possible for me to support my family. I'd like to make people happy, show people a good time, and hopefully inspire some people.
Gerard Way
#53. The nicest part of the prize, perhaps, is the effect on my friends and family. Each of them feels proud and happy to have the relationship with me that they do. In a way, it's as though they received an award too, and I like that very much.
Bruce Beutler
#54. I would be happy living on a massive ranch in Montana and not seeing anyone except my friends and family.
Nick Frost
#55. Forget living a long life cause I don't see that happening with me living a life of misery, neglect, and pain. So I just want to die happy.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
#56. Don't we all look back in longing, those of us who had happy childhoods? Because the greatest loss we ever know is not the loss of family or place or money, it is the loss of innocence. There is forever a hollow place in our hearts once we realize that darkness rings the campfire.
Carolyn Hart
#57. I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one.
Alexander McCall Smith
#58. I think my husband and dad were both very happy that I had a baby boy, to get some testosterone in the family, because there are a lot of girls. It's not a perfect family, but it's a strong family. The nice thing is how the different ages interact.
Jade Jagger
#59. I remember I grew up in a poor family and we had almost nothing and we were not treated very well by our family. There was no safe haven for us. But somehow we always managed to be happy.
Luis Negron
#60. I was at a family friend's house and in true Jamaican style we celebrated with food. I relived every single emotionit was a moving experience. I am super-happy with all the love and support I am getting from my Jamaicans and Caribbean people.
Tessanne Chin
#61. I chose to be retired. I chose to start a family. That was one of the biggest reasons I got away from the game of baseball. I wanted to start a family. I was happy.
Mark McGwire
#62. A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money.
Anne Northup
#63. Never kill yourself because you are too poor to feed your children or your family. You are a part of this world, and the country you live on it. It is your right to be happy, educated and with your children and family. You must fight for your rights, kill for your rights but never die for them.
M.F. Moonzajer
#64. I want you to be happy," I tell him, my eyes searching his. 'I want you to have a family. I want you to be surronded by people who care about you," I say. 'You deserve that.
Tahereh Mafi
#65. Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before we'd go to bed, my mom and dad would read to us two or three stories and they would always be 'The Happy Prince,' 'The Gift of the Magi' and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas,' and I would like to keep that alive.
Cameron Mathison
#66. A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#67. If we're a family and your brother wishes you death, it's not a very happy family.
Etgar Keret
#68. In my family, I would never dare to think of being Paris Hilton! And to me, that doesn't look like a happy existence - it's just not who I am.
Eve Hewson
#69. My family's great and everybody's happy and healthy and my career is good. But personally, I had to sacrifice a lot in my own personal life. And I regret that.
Darren Shahlavi
#70. If there's a perfect family out there, we're all happy for that family. But most families aren't perfect. Most families are living with some sort of challenge or some sort of difficulty.
Louie Giglio
#71. Humor is essential to a full and happy life. It is a reliever and relaxer of pressure and tension, and the saving element in many situations.
Richard L. Evans
#72. I've made a good amount of money. I'm very happy that I can now support my theatre company and support friends and family, and I'm ready to maybe go back to school and change careers.
David Schwimmer
#73. It's a wonderful side effect of what we're doing, to give someone the strength to come out of the closet to their family, or simply present themselves aesthetically in a way they feel happy with, whether or not their friends are going to be allowed to like them anymore.
Davey Havok
#74. You all looked so happy together in the photograph. You looked like the
perfect family. Is there such a thing anymore because if there is, my happy
little unit was definitely not in the queue when they were handing out the
titles.
Cecelia Ahern
#75. We participate and are responsible for a lot of the things that happen to us. If you hate your job, you are much more likely to get sick and die at a younger age than someone who's happy at work and has a nice family life and is mentally well adjusted.
Bernie Siegel
#76. My family are really happy here at Liverpool and I am prepared to have my daughter with a Scouse accent, even though it is sometimes a problem for me.
Rafael Benitez
#77. The very worst events in life have that effect on a family: we always remember, more sharply than anything else, the last happy moments before everything fell apart.
Fredrik Backman
#78. Life itself has so much politics, why should I make it my profession? I'm just a politician's son, not a politician myself. Two politicians, that's my dad and elder brother, in the family are enough. I'm happy doing my own stuff in Bollywood.
Riteish Deshmukh
#79. I've never thought much about whether I was happy or if I had fun as a child. I was a so-so girl who lived with a so-so family in a so-so village. I didn't know that there might be another way to live, and I didn't worry about it either.
Lisa See
#80. Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family.
Joachim Du Bellay
#81. Epictetus, the pagan philosopher, proved in his life the truth of his own words - "A man can be happy without wealth, without family, without office or honor, without health, without anything that the world seeks after.
Orison Swett Marden
#82. He'd never admit it, but he counted Dex among his family. Sort of like the annoying brother-in-law. You're happy he's making your bro happy, but damn, sometimes you just wanted to punch him in his stupid smiley face. Who the hell smiled that much, anyway? A crazy person, that's who.
Charlie Cochet
#83. When a nation or family is about to flourish, there are sure to be happy omens; and when it is about to perish, there are sure to be unlucky omens.
Confucius
#84. I liked hanging out with my family! Later, when you're grown up, you realize you never get to hang out with your family. You pretty much have only eighteen years to spend with them full time, and that's it. So, yeah, it all added up to a happy, memorable time. Even though I was never a star.
Mindy Kaling
#85. My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform.
Mike Farrell
#86. I never look back at all. All of my sentiment and emotion goes into my family. I'm an extremely family oriented person and I have a very, very happy family life. That doesn't just include blood relations. I have friends who are close to me.
Michael Caine
#87. I have so many e-mails from people who are like, 'I never knew a family could be happy like this ... My parents hate each other. I hate my brother. We fight all the time. I never wanted to have kids before I saw your family.'
Shay Carl
#88. We didn't have much money. My whole extended family used to help us, and buy us books and food. It was hard, and there were things I didn't want to talk about. But at the end I was a happy girl.
Maria Das Gracas Silva Foster
#89. I give up so much to do what I do. Like, I give up a personal life. I give up my friends, my family. I give up a lot of stuff to pursue what I love and to make my fans happy. I give up so much. So, I'm going to be the best.
Justin Bieber
#90. Elinor placed all that was astonishing in this way of acting to his mother's account; and it was happy for her that he had a mother whose character was so imperfectly known to her, as to be the general excuse for every thing strange on the part of her son.
Jane Austen
#91. One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.
Pat Conroy
#92. When I do get free time, I spend a lot of it at home with my family and my close friends and I think that's what keeps me happy, healthy, grounded, and totally in check.
Leighton Meester
#93. For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry.
Malaika Arora Khan
#94. I got caught up on drugs for a few years, I'm off it, I'm very happy, got two kids and a family and everything. And like I said I'm making the underground music, and keeping it real.
Vanilla Ice
#95. God looks at his people as children of a family who are happy that those who have done only a little bit are as much loved as those who accomplish much.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#96. Yes, I was determined to have a happy Christmas' 'Did you?' 'I think so. I don't remember it much, and that's always a good sign, isn't it?
Evelyn Waugh
#97. Genes, I have learned, do not make a family. Families are the people that stick around through good and bad times. Sadness is a part of life. Choosing to be happy and see the glass half full is a struggle we all must make.
Jaycee Dugard
#98. As you celebrate your special day I hope you are showered with priceless gifts of love, thoughtfulness, friendships, family, laughter and good times. These are just a few simple presents that money can't buy and that you absolutely deserve! Happy Birthday!
Carlos Wallace
#99. I've got really good friends and family. My parents, after 30 years, are still incredibly in love, still make each other laugh, which is a beautiful thing to see. And my brother and his fiance are completely happy, so if I feel a bit lonely, I just go and sit with them and feel their love.
Russell Tovey
#100. I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy.
Isabel Allende
