Family Quotations
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| I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. | |||
| - Fred Allen | |||
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| Blood's thicker than water, and when one's in trouble Best to seek out a relative's open arms. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
| Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
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| The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. | |||
| - Erma Bombeck | |||
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| If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion. | |||
| - Ashleigh Brilliant | |||
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| When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. | |||
| - Joyce Brothers | |||
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| The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born. | |||
| - Pearl S. Buck | |||
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| To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. | |||
| - Barbara Bush | |||
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| What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories. | |||
| - George Eliot | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go by any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. | |||
| - F. Scott Fitzgerald | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family. | |||
| - Lee Iacocca | |||
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| The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. | |||
| - Thomas Jefferson | |||
| The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind. | |||
| - Thomas Jefferson | |||
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| They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines. Family life is like this - animated, but collateral. | |||
| - Rose Macaulay | |||
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| Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back. | |||
| - Mignon McLaughlin | |||
| There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than. | |||
| - Mignon McLaughlin | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. | |||
| - Ogden Nash | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct. | |||
| - Letty Cottin Pogrebin | |||
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| An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. | |||
| - Spanish Proverb | |||
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| The family is one of nature's masterpieces. | |||
| - George Santayana | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. | |||
| - Dodie Smith | |||
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| You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. | |||
| - Desmond Tutu | |||