Family Hands

The family is the nucleus of civilization. - William Durant

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. - Indira Gandhi

Men are creatures with two legs and eight hands. - Jayne Mansfield

Manicurist: A girl who makes money hand over fist - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Besmooch the family name in the eyes of the community. - Archie Bunker

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

Excite the mind and the hand will reach for the pocket. - Harry Gordon Selfridge

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap. - Rodney Dangerfield

He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time. - Richard Nixon

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

If you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. - Yiddish Proverb

If you get melted chocolate all over your hands, you're eating it too slowly. - Unknown

Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush. - Florence King

It is better to be a mouse in a cat's mouth than a man in a lawyer's hands. - Spanish Proverb

Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever. - Unknown

The family you came from isn't as important as the family you're going to have. - Ring Lardner

I ain't got nothing in that hand. Look at that, this guy is suspective of everything. - Archie Bunker

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going. - George Carlin

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. - Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

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

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. - Unknown

Mothers are like glue, Even when you can't see them, they're still holding the family together. - Susan Gale

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves. - Rollo May

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. - George Burns

What is a family except memories? Haphazard and precious as the contents of a catchall drawer in the kitchen. - Joyce C Oates

Technology is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. - Carrie Snow

Hello. I don't believe we have been introduced. R2-D2? A pleasure to meet you. I am C-3PO, Human-Cyborg Relations. - C-3PO

As a family we couldn't decide whether to have Grandma buried or cremated, so in the end we decided to let her live. - Gary Delaney

There's an upside to grandparenthood. You play, you give, you love, then you hand them back and go to an early movie. - Billy Crystal

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. - Jane Howard

It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy. - Nicolas Cage

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer. - Elbert Hubbard

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. - Louis D. Branders

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

In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning. - Leo Tolstoy

Heard about the young deaf boy who used sign language?
One day he told his mother a dirty joke and she washed his hands out with soap. - Red Skelton

Fang took the entire family out for coffee and donuts the other night. The kids enjoyed it. It was the first time they'd ever given blood. - Phyllis Diller

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