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- All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. – Leo Tolstoy
- A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no aw, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”– Agatha Christie
- Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to 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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- You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you. –Frederick Buechner
- After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations. – Oscar Wilde
- When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. – Mark Twain
- No man has ever lived that had enough of children’s gratitude or woman’s love. – William Butler Yeats
- Family is the most important thing in the world. – Princess Diana
- When she can’t bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt. – Libba Bray
- At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable. – Mark V. Olsen
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- There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more… secure.– Jim Butcher
- Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.– Sam Levenson
- Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.– David Ogden Stiers
- A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.– George Moore
- When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching – – they are your family. – Jim Butcher
- All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.– Leo Tolstoy
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- Govern a family as you would cook a small fish – very gently. – Chinese Proverb
- Spare the rod and spoil the child – that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.– Martin Luther
- One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.– Jonathan Foer
- A happy family is but an earlier heaven.– John Bowring
- Family is not an important thing, it’s everything. – Michael J. Fox
- If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.– George Bernard Shaw
- 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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- I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.– Barbara Bush
- The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.– Richard Bach
- What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.– Mother Teresa
- My family comes first. Maybe that’s what makes me different from other guys.– Bobby Darin
- Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close- knit family in another city.– George Burns
- To understand your parents’ love, you must raise children yourself.– Chinese proverb
- The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only – and that is to support the ultimate career. – C.S. Lewis
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- We do not develop habits of genuine love automatically. We learn by watching effective role models – most specifically by observing how our parents express love for each other day in and day out.– Josh McDowell
- Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?– Trenton Lee Stewart
- Writers will happen in the best of families.– Rita Mae Brown
- One’s family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I’ll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who’ll be with me will be my family.– Robert Byrd
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- Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.– Reinhold Niebuhr
- The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.– Lee Iacocca
- we must take care of our families wherever we find them.– Elizabeth Gilbert
- All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family – it’s just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.– Douglas Coupland
- There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.– Jerry Seinfeld
- I sustain myself with the love of family.– Maya Angelou
- When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you.– Guy Lafleur
- This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.– Arundhati Roy
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- Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.– Andre Maurois
- A man should never neglect his family for business.– Walt Disney
- The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.– Confucius
- He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.– Benjamin Franklin
- Cherish your human connections – your relationships with friends and family. –Barbara Bush
- Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.– Mitch Albom
- That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable.– Deb Caletti
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- Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst. – Marjorie Pay Hinckley
- Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know. – Mitch Albom
- There’s nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.– Willie Stargell
- Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life! – Albert Einstein
- No one’s family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior. – Calire LaZebnik
- You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges. – Elizabeth Berg
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- Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there anymore. – Robin Hobb
- Families are like fudge – mostly sweet with a few nuts.
- Our family is a circle of strength of love with every birth and every union the circle grows.
- Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home. -Anthony Liccione
- You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them. -Desmond Tutu
- If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them. – Johnny Depp
- Think of your family today and every day thereafter, don’t let the busy world of today keep you from showing how much you love and appreciate your family. – Josiah
- A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. – Buddha
- I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. – Harry S. Truman
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- Love your family. Spend time, be kind & serve one another. Make no room for regrets. Tomorrow is not promised & today is short.
- In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm. – Isaac Rosenfeld
- Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs. The ones you accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile, and who love you you no matter what.
- Unconditional love is loving your kids for who they are, not for what they do… it isn’t something you will achieve every minute of every day. But it is the thought we must hold in our hearts every day. – Stephanie Marston
- We must take care of our families wherever we find them. – Elizabeth Gilbert
- Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible — the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family. – Virginia Satir
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- No family is perfect… we argue, we fight. We even stop talking to each other at times. But in the end, family is family… The love will always be there.
- 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
- You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you. – Frederick Buechner
- The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. – Henry Ward Beecher
- A mother discovers with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- 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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- I sustain myself with the love of family. – Maya Angelou
- Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it. – Ann Brashares
- Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home. – Bill Cosby
- When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching — they are your family. – Jim Butcher
- That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable. – Deb Caletti
- It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it. – Peter Buffett
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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
- To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right. – Confucius
- Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we’re related for better or for worse…and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum. – Rick Riordan
- I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn’t really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up. – Johnny Depp
- A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. – Agatha Christie
- Having somewhere to go is home. Having someone to love is family. Having both is a blessing.
- I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on. – Ugo Betti
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- Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
- Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter. – Brad Henry
- Being a family means you are a part of something very wonderful. It means you will love and be loved for the rest of your life. – Lisa Weedn
- Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst. – Marjorie Pay Hinckley
- The love of a family is life’s greatest blessings.
- Sometimes the best families are the ones God builds using unexpected pieces of our hearts. – Melanie Shankle
- Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others. – Sidonie Gruenberg
- Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. – Anthony Brandt
- Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten. – David Ogden Stiers
- All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother. – Abraham Lincoln
- I think people that have a brother or sister don’t realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there’s always somebody there, somebody that’s family. – Trey Parker
- A house is built by hands, but a home is built by heart.
- What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. – Mother Theresa
- A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.– George Moore
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- Family is not an important thing, it’s everything. – Michael J. Fox
- Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it’s the most exquisite love of all. – Maggie Gallagher
- Family faces are magic mirrors looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future. – Gail Lumet Buckley
- If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won’t either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out. – Marian Wright Edelman
- Always kiss your children goodnight – even if they’re already asleep. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family. – Bo Bennett
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- Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family. – J.S. Bryan
- There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of humans, are created, strengthened and maintained. -Winston Churchill
- While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. – Angela Schwindt
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- Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us. – Christopher Paolini
- 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
- Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground. – Francis Bacon
- Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life. – Albert Einstein
- An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. – Spanish Proverb
- The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege. – Charles Kuralt
- Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. – George Burns
- 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
- Sticking with your family is what makes it a family. – Mitch Albom
- In time of test, family is best. – Burmese Proverb