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Essay · Sociology

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men; which, both in affection and means, have married and endowed the public.

Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral · 1625

★ 1.9

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair · 1848

★ 2.0

TV program · Sitcom · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

At the Festivus dinner, you gather your family around and you tell them all the ways they have disappointed you over the past year.

Seinfeld · 1997

★ 2.0

TV program · Crime (TV) · Drama (TV) · Crime · Drama

La familia es todo.

Breaking Bad · 2010

★ 2.0

Film · Crime (film) · Crime

Never tell anyone outside the family what you're thinking again.

Don Vito Corleone

The Godfather · 1972

★ 2.3

Film · Action (film) · Action

The most important thing in life will always be the people in this room. Right here, right now. Salute, mi familia.

Dominic Toretto

Fast Five · 2011

★ 2.9

Film · Christmas (film) · Comedy (film) · Christmas · Comedy

How you feel about your family is a complicated thing. Deep down, you'll always love them. But you can forget that you love them, and you can hurt them and they can hurt you, and that's not just because you're young.

Home Alone · 1990

★ 3.5

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Jacques Delille

1803

★ 3.6

Scripture · Religious literature

Am I my brother's keeper?

Genesis 4:9 · 1405 BC

★ 3.8

Film · Crime (film) · Epic (film) · Crime · Epic

Your country ain't your blood, you remember that.

The Godfather: Part II · 1974

★ 3.8

Novel · Post-colonial literature

This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

The God of Small Things · 1997

★ 3.8

Film · Christmas (film) · Comedy (film) · Christmas · Comedy

I don't want a new family. I don't want any family. Families suck!

Home Alone · 1990

★ 3.9

Film · Coming of age (film) · Crime (film) · Coming of age · Crime

You don't fool with a man's family. This is my son, not yours.

Lorenzo (A Bronx Tale)

A Bronx Tale · 1993

★ 3.9

TV program · Crime (TV) · Drama (TV) · Crime · Drama

I don’t care how close you are. In the end, your friends are gonna let you down. Family: they’re the only ones you can depend on.

The Sopranos · 2006

★ 3.9

Film · Crime (film) · Crime

A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.

Don Vito Corleone

The Godfather · 1972

★ 4.0

They are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first.

Margaret Thatcher

1987

★ 5.3

Film · Crime (film) · Crime

Fredo, you’re my older brother, and I love you. But don’t ever take sides with anyone against the family again. Ever.

Michael Corleone

The Godfather · 1972

★ 7.5

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Anna Karenina · 1877

★ 9.2