 Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a

few nuts. ~Author Unknown

 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, The Neurotic's
Notebook, 1960
3. 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
 Important families are like potatoes. The
best parts are underground. ---FRANCIS
BACON
 Every single person has capabilities, abilities
and gifts. Living a good life depends on
whether those capabilities can be used,
 abilities expressed and gifts given. If they
are, the person will be valued, feel powerful
and well-connected to the people around
them. And the community around the person
will be more powerful because of the
contribution the person is making.
-----JOHN P. KRETZMANN AND JOHN
L. MCKNIGHT
 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 greatest thing in family life is to take a
hint when a hint is intended — and not to
take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
----Robert Frost
 A family is a place where minds come in
contact with one another. If these minds love
one another, the home will be as beautiful as
a flower garden. But if these minds get out
of harmony with one another it is like a
 storm that plays havoc with the garden. -----
Buddha
 The family you come from isn't as important
as the family you're going to have. ----Ring
Lardner
 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
 Of all our social institutions, the family is
perhaps the one with which we are most
familiar. As we proceed through our lives,
our experiences within the family give rise
to some of our strongest and most intense
feelings. Within the family context lies a
paradox, however: although most of us hope
for love and support within the family -- a
haven in a heartless world, so to speak -- the
family can also be a place of violence and
abuse. ---MARILYN POOLE
 Better a loving single-parent family than a
'conventional' family where the parents hate
each other and the father is a demagogue.
----MOBY
 The family is both the fundamental unit of
society as well as the root of culture. It ... is
a perpetual source of encouragement,
advocacy, assurance, and emotional
refueling that empowers a child to venture
with confidence into the greater world and
to become all that he can be.
-----MARIANNE E. NEIFERT
 Govern a family as you would cook a small
fish - very gently. ----Chinese Proverb
 Our family is a circle of strength and love…
With every birth and every union the circle
grows…
Every joy shared adds more love…
Every crisis faced together
makes the circle grow stronger.

don't care how poor a man is; if he has  
family, he's rich.  ~Dan Wilcox and Thad
Mumford, "Identity Crisis," M*A*S*H

Rejoice with your family in the beautiful

land of life!  ~Albert Einstein

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which

makes us fathers and sons.  ~Johann
Schiller

The family is a haven in a heartless world. 

~Attributed to Christopher Lasch

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

Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with

a few nuts.  ~Author Unknown

The thing about family disasters is that you

never have to wait long before the next one
puts the previous one into perspective. 
~Robert Brault,www.robertbrault.com

If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never

been to a family reunion.  ~Ashleigh
Brilliant
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

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

A family is a unit composed not only of

children but of men, women, an occasional
animal, and the common cold.  ~Ogden
Nash

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

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

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, The
Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

You don't choose your family.  They are

God's gift to you, as you are to them. 
~Desmond Tutu

An ounce of blood is worth more than a

pound of friendship.  ~Spanish Proverb

Blood's thicker than water, and when one's

in trouble
Best to seek out a relative's open arms.
~Author Unknown

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, 1813

To us, family means putting your arms

around each other and being there. 
~Barbara Bush

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
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

In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can

start out having a bad day, but you keep
getting detoured.  ~Robert
Brault, www.robertbrault.com

There is no cure for laziness but a large

family helps.  ~Herbert Prochnov

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
Our most basic instinct is not for survival
but for family.  Most of us would give our
own life for the survival of a family
member, yet we lead our daily life too often
as if we take our family for granted.  ~Paul
Pearshall

The great advantage of living in a large

family is that early lesson of life's essential
unfairness.  ~Nancy Mitford

The happiest moments of my life have been

the few which I have passed at home in the
bosom of my family.  ~Thomas Jefferson

And thank you for a house full of people I

love.  Amen.  ~Terri Guillemets
The family - that dear octopus from whose
tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our
inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.  ~Dodie
Smith

Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie -

not perfect but who's complaining? 
~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

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.  ~Kendall
Hailey,The Day I Became an Autodidact

In time of test, family is best.  ~Burmese

Proverb

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

Friends are God's apology for relations. 

~Hugh Kingsmill

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

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

At the end of the day, a loving family should

find everything forgivable.  ~Mark V. Olsen
and Will Sheffer, Big Love, "Easter"

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
In a household of toddlers and pets, we
discover this rule of thumb about happy
families - that they are least two-thirds
incontinent.  ~Robert
Brault,www.robertbrault.com

The informality of family life is a blessed

condition that allows us to become our best
while looking our worst.  ~Marge Kennedy

The family is one of nature's masterpieces. 

~George Santayana, The Life of Reason

We cannot destroy kindred:  our chains

stretch a little sometimes, but they never
break.  ~Marquise de Sévigné
The advantage of growing up with siblings
is that you become very good at fractions. 
~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Other things may change us, but we start

and end with the family.  ~Anthony Brandt

There's an awful lot of blood around that

water is thicker than.  ~Mignon
McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's
Notebook, 1966

Family faces are magic mirrors.  Looking at

people who belong to us, we see the past,
present, and future.  ~Gail Lumet Buckley
If minutes were kept of a family gathering,
they would show that "Members not
Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one
and the same.  ~Robert
Brault,www.robertbrault.com

Are we not like two volumes of one book? 

~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

I don't have to look up my family tree,

because I know that I'm the sap.  ~Fred
Allen

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

“Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our

children, and the one most important of all the things
we can give to them is unconditional love. Not a love
that depends on anything at all except that they are our
children.”
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are the continuation of each of these people.”
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         “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”