Are we not like two volumes of one book?
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst.
Marge Kennedy
I don’t have to look up my family tree, because I know that I’m the sap.
Fred Allen
There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained.
Winston Churchill
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Theodore Hesburgh
Families are like fudge – mostly sweet with a few nuts.
Author Unknown
If you don’t believe in ghosts, you’ve never been to a family reunion.
Ashleigh Brilliant
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Ogden Nash
A tree is known by its fruit.
Blood’s thicker than water, and when one’s in trouble
Best to seek out a relative’s open arms.
My father always told me, “Find a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.
Jim Fox
When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.
Joyce Brothers
In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.
Margaret Laurence
You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
Desmond Tutu
To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
Barbara Bush
A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life.
Irish Sayings
When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.
George Bernard Shaw
One of life’s greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn’t good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.
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
No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
Elbert Hubbard
There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.
Herbert Prochnov
The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life’s essential unfairness.
Nancy Mitford
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
Dr. Seuss
Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there’s always one determined to face in an opposite
direction from the way the arranger desires.
Marcelene Cox
She got her good looks from her father. He’s a plastic surgeon.
Groucho Marx
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
Thomas Jefferson
In time of test, family is best.
Burmese Proverb
The love of a family is life’s greatest blessing.
Family is just accident…. They don’t mean to get on your nerves. They don’t even mean to be your family, they just are.
Marsha Norman
The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family.
Lee Iacocca
I don’t care how poor a man is; if he has family, he’s rich.
Dan Wilcox
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.
Margaret Mead
In each family a story is playing itself out, and each family’s story embodies its hope and despair.
Auguste Napier
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
Johann Schiller
In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient’s condition. Usually this is a member of the family.
Alfred Adler
The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman.
Mexican Proverb
The family is a haven in a heartless world.
Attributed to Christopher Lasch
I don’t care how poor a man is; if he has family, he’s rich.
Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford
At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.
Mark V. Olsen
We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.
Shirley Abbott
The family is a haven in a heartless world.
Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.
Evan Esar
When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.
Joyce Brothers
If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.
George Santayana
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.
Anthony Brandt