Family Hands

My family tree could use some pruning. - Unknown

A happy family is but an earlier heaven. - Sir John Bowring

Success lies in the hands of those who want it. - Unknown

Putting your hands in the earth is very grounding. - John Glover

A balanced diet is a Cracker Jack cookie in each hand. - Joe-kster

Family is not an important thing - it's everything. - Michael J. Fox

Acting is just a way of making a living; the family is life. - Denzel Washington

Wringing your hands only stops you from rolling up your sleeves. - James Rollins

If a deaf person swears, does his mother wash his hands with soap? - George Carlin

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. - John Berry

I think the family was from Hungaria. (talking about Noah's Ark) - Archie Bunker

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands. - H L Mencken

Alone, you are only as good as your reach; you must join hands with others. - Joe Segal

Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands. - Jesse Helms

As a child, my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. - Buddy Hackett

I believe in moderation. I work on genealogy only on days that end in 'y'. - Richard Thiesen

I felt sorry for myself because I had no hands until I met a man who had no chips. - Kent Andersson

Life without endeavor is like entering a jewel mine and coming out with empty hands. - Japanese Proverb

When I take a gun in hand, the safest place for a pheasant is just opposite the muzzle. - Sydney Smith

He that has no fools, knaves, nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning. - Thomas Fuller

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation. - Meryl Streep

Sometimes the game of golf is just too difficult to endure with a golf club in your hands. - Bobby Jones

I see their souls, and I hold them in my hands, and because I love them they weigh nothing. - Pearl Bailey

I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married. - Lewis Grizzard

By the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble. - John Entwistle

How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand. - Ovid

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family. - Anita Baker

Caesar dreamed that he was flying above the clouds, and now that he was clasping the hand of Jupiter. - Suetonius

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you. - Will Rogers

Every family story has 1,000 other stories contained within it, like an unending series of nesting dolls. - Alison Pick

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. - Ogden Nash

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. - Jay Leno

Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary: when her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief. - Oscar Wilde

The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to. - Dodie Smith

Babies are bits of stardust, blown from the hand of God. Lucky the woman who knows the pangs of birth, for she has held a star. - Larry Barratto

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right path, the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. - Anne Frank

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. - John Leonard

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. - Bertrand Russell

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along. - Antonin Scalia