Quotes on family
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
Santayana, George
If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion.
Brilliant, Ashleigh
Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts.
Unknown, Author
Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.
Buckley, Gail Lumet
There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.
McLaughlin, Mignon
We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Sévigné, Marquise de
The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst.
Kennedy, Marge
When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.
Brothers, Joyce
In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.
Laurence, Margaret
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.
Howard, Jane
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.
Eliot, George
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.
Bombeck, Erma
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.
Abbott, Shirley
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.
Mead, Margaret
I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
Allen, Fred
The building of friendship, family, community and love is more complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.
Near, Holly