Quotes on family
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
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George Santayana Quotes
If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion.
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Ashleigh Brilliant Quotes
Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.
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Gail Lumet Buckley Quotes
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.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you.
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Kendall Hailey Quotes
There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.
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Anthony Brandt Quotes
We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
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Marquise de Sévigné Quotes
The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst.
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Marge Kennedy Quotes
When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.
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Joyce Brothers Quotes
The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family.
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Lee Iacocca Quotes
In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.
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Margaret Laurence Quotes
To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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Barbara Bush Quotes
If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.
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Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes
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.
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Jane Howard Quotes
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.
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George Eliot Quotes
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.
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.
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Dodie Smith Quotes
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.
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Erma Bombeck Quotes
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.
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Shirley Abbott Quotes
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.
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Margaret Mead Quotes
I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
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Fred Allen Quotes
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.
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Holly Near Quotes