Ben Silliman

American families have always shown remarkable resiliency, or flexible adjustment to natural, economic, and social challenges. Their strengths resemble the elasticity of a spider web, a gull's skillful flow with the wind, the regenerating power of perennial grasses, the cooperation of an ant colony, and the persistence of a stream carving canyon rocks. These are not the strengths of fixed monuments but living organisms. This resilience is not measured by wealth, muscle or efficiency but by creativity, unity, and hope. Cultivating these family strengths is critical to a thriving human community.

Barbara Johnson

No one likes change but babies in diapers.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

Dalai Lama

I pray for a more friendly, more caring, and more understanding human family on this planet. To all who dislike suffering, who cherish lasting happiness, this is my heartfelt appeal.

Arthur Koestler

What is an editor but a cross between a fall guy and a father figure? arthur koestler

J.R.R. Tolkien

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

Jackie Kennedy

The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.

Jeremy Taylor.

Children, honor your parents in your hearts; bear them not only awe and respect, but kindness and affection: love their persons, fear to do anything that may justly provoke them

Charles Kuralt

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

Author Unknown

Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts.

Jules Feiffer

I grew up to have my father’s looks, my father’s speech patterns, my father’s posture, my father’s opinions and my mother’s contempt for my father.

Robert Brault

The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.

Lord Chesterfield

Cautiously avoid speaking of the domestic affairs either of yourself, or of other people. Yours are nothing to them but tedious gossip; and theirs are nothing to you.

Alex Haley

In every conceivable manner, the family is a link to our past, and a bridge to our future.

Chuck Palahniuk

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.

Ralph Ellison

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

Sarah Dessen

Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.

William Shakespeare

 A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

C.S. Lewis

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What? You too? I thought I was the only one.

Jim Bishop

 Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

Richard Bach

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

Confucius

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.

Oliver Goldsmith

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

Samuel Butler

A man first quarrels with his father about three-quarters of a year before he is born.

Sara Paddison

We are one big family of people, trying to make our way through the unfolding puzzle of life. We are all connected to one another in the heart. Connecting with the ultimate source of love is possible through discovering the hidden power in your heart.

Russian Proverb

A mother's love will draw up from depths of the sea.

Charles R. Swindoll

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

Harmon Killebrew

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys

French Proverb

A father is a banker provided by nature.

George Burns

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close|knit family in another city.

George Bernard Shaw

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

Rick Riordan

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.

Christopher Reeve

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. They are the real heroes, and so are the families and friends who have stood by them.

Abraham Lincoln

I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother.

Michael Levine

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

Jack Kerouac

Whenever I heard thunder in the mountains it was like the iron of my mother’s love.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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.

Josh McDowell

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.

Robert Brault

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

Marlo Thomas

Every child deserves a chance at a life
filled with love, laughter, friends and family.

LaToya Jackson

I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.

Ellen DeGeneres

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.

Barbara Bush

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

Oscar Wilde

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.

Jasmine Guy

If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.

George Moore

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.

William Butler Yeats

No man has ever lived that had enough of children’s gratitude or woman’s love.

Erma Bombeck

When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it's a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.

Gloria Steinem

However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion, or all four. However far it may expand, the progression inevitably rests on unequal power and airtight roles within the family.

Ashleigh Brilliant

If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion.

Kofi Annan

The global work of the United Nations is not without reason compared to that of a family -- striving for a common goal in concert with all members for a better future.

Anais Nin

I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.

B.C. Forbes

It isn’t success if it costs you the companionship and chumminess and love of your children. Very often busy, wealthy men of momentous affairs discover too late that they have sacrificed the finest thing in life, the affection of their family. Let me relate an incident [containing] a priceless suggestion for many ultra-busy businessmen. Frank L. Baker, prominent public utility executive, told a friend that he was going to give his young son an unusual Christmas present. I am going to write my boy a letter telling him I am going to give him an hour of my time every day. Alas, Mr. Baker died two weeks later.

Agatha Christie

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.

Benjamin Franklin

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.

James Ellis

It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the domestic hearth, and to the little joys and endearments of a family.

Arnold Glasow

A good father lives so he is a credit to his children.

Ring Lardner

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

Kofi Annan

We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war.

Alan Ayckbourn

Could you possibly whistle your father and put him back on his lead, please. alan ayckbourn

Thomas Moore

Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul.

Samuel Butler

Some people seem compelled by unkind fate to parental servitude for life. There is no form of penal service worse than this.

John Conyers

Global Family Day provides a way in which every man, woman, and child in the United States can help to reduce suffering at home, repair our damaged image abroad, and help us remember that in the end, all people belong to the same human family.

Marie Curie

I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.

Lee Iacocca

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

Marceline Desbordes

Are we not like two volumes of one book?

Virginia Satir

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.

Trenton Lee Stewart

You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn't depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family.

Jean Kerr

 The real menace in dealing with a five year old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five year old.

Wayne H.

Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.

Kofi Annan

If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.

Chief Oren Lyons

We can still alter our course. It is NOT too late. We still have options. We need the courage to change our values to the regeneration of our families, the life that surrounds us.

Irma Kurtz

Fathers don’t curse, they disinherit. Mothers curse.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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.

George Bernard Shaw

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Michael J. Fox

Family is not an important thing, it's everything.

Joyce Brothers

When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

Guy Lafleur

When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you.

Malika Sanders

I want my child to walk in a world guided by love. This means that everybody will have a job, or the resources to take care of basic needs. A world where families are not oppressed and are connected to their neighbors and their communities, where the best in humanity is honored. That's when we will truly be at peace.

Marian Wright Edelman

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.

Zilda Arns Neumann

Children are the seed for peace or violence in the future, depending on how they are cared for and stimulated. Thus, their family and community environment must be sown to grow a fairer and more fraternal world, a world to serve life and hope.

Spanish Proverb

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Brad Henry

Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.

Marsha Norman

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.

Lemony Snicket

  Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

Margaret Mead

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

Sam Levenson

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Mignon McLaughlin

There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.

Marsha Norman

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.

Ogden Nash

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

Margaret Laurence

  In some families, 'please' is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was 'sorry'.

William S. Gilbert

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

Malcolm Forbes

Occasionally we all inherit, or are given, or get something or some things that are too good to use for a variety of seemingly sound but really quite silly reasons-they’re heirlooms or too rare or too expensive or too fragile or too pretty. The result is heirloom linen handed down from generation to generation that falls apart when some benighted heiress decides to air it. While I’m glad that past generations saved some things we now enjoy, we are enjoying them by using them instead of carefully storing them for our kids-in turn to store. Unused beautiful things are a waste.

Winston Churchill

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl–no superior alternative has yet been found.

Kendall Hailey

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.

Samuel Johnson

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

Madonna

Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is.

Erma Bombeck

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.

John Conyers

We all have families who are longing for peace in the world and an end to the suffering caused by poverty, disease, and hunger. Untold numbers of our friends, our neighbors, our parents, and our children, are hoping that there is more understanding, more generosity, more genuine friendship, and more caring among people of all faiths and cultures.

Mignon McLaughlin

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.

Marcello Lippi

On abusive Florentine soccer fans (quoted in 1998): They were rude about my mother, the poor woman, who is from Florence. But I do think they could leave my father alone. He died six years ago.

Chaim Potok

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.

Princess Diana

On privacy and the birth of Prince William: I felt the whole country was in labor with me.

Jim Carrey

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.

Winston Churchill

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.

Gail Lumet Buckley

Family faces are magic mirrors looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.

Kofi Annan

The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world's peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and justice. That foundation is the family. It is only by protecting families, from famine as well as from fragmentation, that they can prosper and contribute to the family of nations that is the United Nations.

Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution

Family is the first social unit for developing the qualities of the heart. A true family grows and moves through life together, inseparable in the heart. Whether a biological family or an extended family of people attracted to each other based on heart resonance and mutual support, the word "family" implies warmth, a place where the core feelings of the heart are nurtured. Family values represent the core values and guidelines that parents and family members hold in high regard for the well-being of the family. Sincere family feelings are core heart feelings. They are the basis for true family values. While we have differences, we remain "family" by virtue of our heart connection. Family provides necessary security and support, and acts as a buffer against external problems. A family made up of secure people generates a magnetic power that can get things done. They are the hope for real security in a stressful world.

Evan Esar

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.

Barack Obama

Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important. And we are called to recognize and honor how critical every father is to that foundation. They are teachers and coaches. They are mentors and role models. They are examples of success and the men who constantly push us toward it. But if we are honest with ourselves, we'll admit that what too many fathers also are is missing – missing from too many lives and too many homes. They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men. And the foundations of our families are weaker because of it.

Mother Teresa

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Robert Brault

In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured.

Imane Khalifeh

We want simply to live in peace
We want to raise up our children
And save our brothers and sisters...
We want our families to remain whole.
Let us walk out of our isolation and join one another.
Let us walk out of our tears and screams of pain.

Erma Bombeck

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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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

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.
-- Ring Lardner

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family.
-- Lee Iacocca

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
-- Barbara Bush

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
-- Thomas Jefferson

We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
-- Marquise de Sévigné

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

When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.
-- Joyce Brothers

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
-- Desmond Tutu

Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
-- Jim Rohn




Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
Richard Bach
   

When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.
Guy Lafleur
   

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
   

America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.
Mitt Romney
   

“The family is the school of duties - founded on love”
-- Felix Adler
   

* “If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.”
-- Maya Angelou
   

* If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.
-– Kofi Annan

"Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict."
-– Kofi Annan

let us all reaffirm our commitment to improving the well- being of families throughout the world.
-– Kofi Annan

The global work of the United Nations is not without reason compared to that of a family -- striving for a common goal in concert with all members for a better future.
-– Kofi Annan

The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world's peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and justice. That foundation is the family. It is only by protecting families, from famine as well as from fragmentation, that they can prosper and contribute to the family of nations that is the United Nations.
-– Kofi Annan

We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war.
-– Kofi Annan




One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
    --George Herbert



One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
    --George Herbert


The antidote for crime should be administered in childhood, by the parents. The problem is not fundamentally that of the improper child so much as it is that of the improper home.
    --Justice John W. Hill


    Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. - Phyllis Diller

    Children really brighten up a household. They never turn the lights off. - Ralph Bus

    Human beings are the only creatures on Earth that allow their children to come back home. - Bill Cosby

    In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television. - Erma Bombeck

    Insanity is hereditary: You can get it from your children. - Sam Levinson

    Having a two-year-old is like having a blender that you don't have the top for. - Jerry Seinfeld

    Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble. - Martin Mull

    The real menace in dealing with a five year old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five year old. - Jean Kerr

    Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla. - Jim Bishop




Heredity: An omnibus in which all our ancestors ride, and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us.
    --Oliver Wendell Holmes

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.
    --Horace

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


Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
    --Edgar Watson Howe


When you consider what a chance women have to poison their husbands, it’s a wonder there isn’t more of it done.
    --Kin Hubbard


I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.
    --Thomas Jefferson



The mother is a matchless beast.
    --James Kelly


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

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.
-- Francis Bacon

In each family a story is playing itself out, and each family's story embodies its hope and despair.
-- Auguste Napier

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
-- Alex Haley

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

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.
-- Eva Burrows

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
-- Elizabeth II


We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.”
-- Henry Ward Beecher    

* Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth. Peace is all of these and more and more.
-- Menachem Begin    



* Most families need both parents to work. Moms need to be able to work and earn fair pay and have the flexibility in their jobs to also be primary caretakers.
-- Joan Blades
   

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
   

You would think that those who are always talking about family values would want to create an environment of permanent relationships for people of the same sex. But they're not advocating family values. They're advocating their values.
- Willie Brown




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

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.
-- Anthony Brandt

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
-- George Santayana

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



For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.
Jessica Lange
   

I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.
Ednita Nazario
   

Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.
Charlie Sheen
   

I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.
Maureen O'Hara
   

When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.
Jerry Falwell





Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
Margaret Mead
   
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
Charles Kuralt
   
Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.
David Ogden Stiers
   
I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.
LaToya Jackson
   
Family is not an important thing. It's everything.
Michael J. Fox
   

Family faces are magic mirrors looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.
-- Gail Lumet Buckley

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

Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul.
-- Thomas Moore

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


 "In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony."
-- Eva Burrows

* There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home.
-- Rosalynn Carter
   

Family is the first social unit for developing the qualities of the heart. A true family grows and moves through life together, inseparable in the heart. Whether a biological family or an extended family of people attracted to each other based on heart resonance and mutual support, the word "family" implies warmth, a place where the core feelings of the heart are nurtured. Family values represent the core values and guidelines that parents and family members hold in high regard for the well-being of the family. Sincere family feelings are core heart feelings. They are the basis for true family values. While we have differences, we remain "family" by virtue of our heart connection. Family provides necessary security and support, and acts as a buffer against external problems. A family made up of secure people generates a magnetic power that can get things done. They are the hope for real security in a stressful world.
-- Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution

To understand your parents' love, you must raise children yourself.
-- Chinese proverb

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

* We all have families who are longing for peace in the world and an end to the suffering caused by poverty, disease, and hunger. Untold numbers of our friends, our neighbors, our parents, and our children, are hoping that there is more understanding, more generosity, more genuine friendship, and more caring among people of all faiths and cultures.
-- John Conyers
   

Global Family Day provides a way in which every man, woman, and child in the United States can help to reduce suffering at home, repair our damaged image abroad, and help us remember that in the end, all people belong to the same human family.
-- John Conyers






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:

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
-- George Burns

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

I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.
-- Anais Nin



If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
   
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
Desmond Tutu
   
Family is the most important thing in the world.
Princess Diana
   
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard Shaw
   
A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
   


Words on her deathbed: Son, carry on, you’re a good boy. And everybody—white and colored—loves you. You have a good heart. You can’t miss.
    --Mayann Armstrong


It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
    --Jane Austen


Could you possibly whistle your father and put him back on his lead, please. alan ayckbourn
    --Alan Ayckbourn



    Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts. - Unknown

    My family is really boring. They have a coffee table book called “Pictures We Took Just to Use Up the Rest of the Film”. - Penelope Lombard 

    If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion. - Ashleigh Brilliant

    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

    In some families, 'please' is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was 'sorry'. - Margaret Laurence 

    Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts. - Wayne H.

    Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. - Michael Levine

    A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. - Ogden Nash



What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our relationships?
-- Dorothy Day    
   

* "The greatest gift we can give to our children is to raise them in a culture of peace."
-- Louise Diamond
   

* Family is the most important thing in the world.
-- Princess Diana

"A man should never neglect his family for business."
-- Walt Disney

No success in public life can compensate for failure in the home.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

The family is the nucleus of civilization.
-- Ariel and Will Durant
   

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
   

* Family is not an important thing, it's everything.
~Michael J. Fox

    * 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

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
-- Marilyn French



"We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society."
-- Betty Friedan




Wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.
    --Francis Bacon

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
    --James Baldwin


God forgive us—but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
    --Brendan Behan


Advice for mothers: Moms are becoming much more real in terms of admitting that the job is a difficult one and that a nice glass of wine at the end of the day sure helps.
    --Marile Borden


Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.
    --Anthony Brandt


In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.
    --Abigail Van Buren

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
    --George Burns




I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich.  ~Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford

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




“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
― George Burns

“One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.”
― J.K. Rowling

“The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”
― Jay McInerney

“Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”
― J.K. Rowling

“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family. ”
― Jim Butcher

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”
― Oscar Wilde

“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”
― Mitch Albom

“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


Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.
-- Matt Groening

The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day."
-- M. Grundler
* If we are too busy, if we are carried away every day by our projects, our uncertainty, our craving, how can we have the time to stop and look deeply into the situation-our own situation, the situation of our beloved one, the situation of our family and of our community, and the situation of our nation and of the other nations?
-- Thich Nhat Hanh    

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
-- Theodore Hesburgh
   

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 (1935-1996) US journalist, writer

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?
-- Lee Iacocca

One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll
   
* Your children need your presence more than your presents.
-- Jesse Jackson    
   

* 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, 1813

The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale the community itself is crippled. So, unless we work to strengthen the family, to create conditions under which most parents will stay together, all the rest — schools, playgrounds, and public assitance, and private concern — will never be enough.
-- Lyndon Johnson




A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
-- Ogden Nash

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
-- John Bowring

A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.
-- Helen Keller

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.
-- George Moore

At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.
-- Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer

Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance.
-- Milton R. Saperstein

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

Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts.
-- Author Unknown

Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.
-- Brad Henry

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 baby usually wakes up in the wee-wee hours of the morning. - Unknown

    No one likes change but babies in diapers. - Barbara Johnson

    The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out his nose. - Garrison Keillor

    I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance -waiting for the bathroom. - Bob Hope

    Never let an angry sister comb your hair. - Patricia McCann

    Parents are not interested in justice; they're interested in peace and quiet. - Bill Cosby.

    There are two things that a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and its mother's age. - Benjamin Spock

    Mother Nature is wonderful. She gives us twelve years to develop a love for our children before turning them into teenagers. - Eugene Bertin




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




“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.”
― Ellen DeGeneres

“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

“Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

“There is no such thing as a "broken family." Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart. The only time family becomes null is when those ties in the heart are cut. If you cut those ties, those people are not your family. If you make those ties, those people are your family. And if you hate those ties, those people will still be your family because whatever you hate will always be with you.”
― C. JoyBell C.


The goals of our public welfare program must be positive and constructive. [The welfare program] must stress the integrity and preservation of the family unit. It must contribute to the attack on dependency, juvenile delinquency, family breakdown, illegitimacy, ill health, and disability. It must reduce the incidence of these problems, prevent their occurrence and recurrence, and strengthen and protect the vulnerable in a highly competitive world.
-- John F. Kennedy    

"We want simply to live in peace
We want to raise up our children
And save our brothers and sisters...
We want our families to remain whole.
Let us walk out of our isolation and join one another.
Let us walk out of our tears and screams of pain."
-- Imane Khalifeh
   

* We teach academic subjects and we assume life skills will somehow be acquired along the way. Not a safe assumption! The curriculum has to include things like communication, conflict resolution, parenting, family dynamics, critical thinking, values, ethics.
-- Azim Khamisa
   
   

* Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.
-- Jessica Lange



Becoming responsible adults is no longer a matter of whether children hang up there pajamas or put dirty towels in the hamper, but whether they care about themselves and others -- and whether they see everyday chores as related to how we treat this planet.
-- Eda Leshan

* Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
-- Abraham Lincoln
   
* We can still alter our course. It is NOT too late. We still have options. We need the courage to change our values to the regeneration of our families, the life that surrounds us.
~ Chief Oren Lyons    

   

* "Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is."
-- Madonna


“My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.”
― Rick Riordan

“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

“Hermes gazed up at the stars. 'My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it. It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inventing the Internet--”
― Rick Riordan

“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn't depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family.”
― Trenton Lee Stewart


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



If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw
   
A man should never neglect his family for business.
Walt Disney
   
A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.
Tom DeLay
   
Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
Cary Grant
   

George Santayana quotes
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

William S. Gilbert
My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

Thomas Jefferson
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.



I could not point to any need in childhood as strong as that for a father’s protection.
    --Sigmund Freud


Husbands are like fires: They go out when unattended.
    --Zsa Zsa Gabor


A father loves best his worst son.
    --Moses Gentili


A good father lives so he is a credit to his children.
    --Arnold Glasow


I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
    --Oliver Goldsmith


Only mothers can think of the future, because they give birth to it in their children.
    --Maxim Gorky


Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.
    --Matt Groening


Family is the most effective form of government.
    --Robert Half


Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.
    --William Hazlitt


 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

"It takes ONE FAMILY to make a difference in this COMMUNITY. It takes ONE PERSON to make a difference in this FAMILY."
-- Nisandeh Neta
Children are the seed for peace or violence in the future, depending on how they are cared for and stimulated. Thus, their family and community environment must be sown to grow a fairer and more fraternal world, a world to serve life and hope.
-- Zilda Arns Neumann    

If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.”
-- Thich Nhat Hanh

* "If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace."
-- Thich Nhat Hanh
   

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
   

* Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.
-- Barack Obama

Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important. And we are called to recognize and honor how critical every father is to that foundation. They are teachers and coaches. They are mentors and role models. They are examples of success and the men who constantly push us toward it. But if we are honest with ourselves, we'll admit that what too many fathers also are is missing – missing from too many lives and too many homes. They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men. And the foundations of our families are weaker because of it.
-- Barack Obama

"The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come."
-- Sandra Day O'Connor

We are all part of the human family and we should be about doing what all good families do - caring for our less fortunate brothers and sisters.
- Dan O'Neill, Founder, Mercy Corps
   



We are one big family of people, trying to make our way through the unfolding puzzle of life. We are all connected to one another in the heart. Connecting with the ultimate source of love is possible through discovering the hidden power in your heart.
-- Sara Paddison, Hidden Power of the Heart

Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.
-- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Ike's Wee Wee, 1998

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



Brad Henry
Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.

Dalai Lama
I pray for a more friendly, more caring, and more understanding human family on this planet. To all who dislike suffering, who cherish lasting happiness, this is my heartfelt appeal.

Mark Twain
Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.

Buddha
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.

Jane Howard
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.




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
   
My family is my strength and my weakness.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
   
Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.
Bo Bennett
   
My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.
Bobby Darin
   
Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.
Barbara Bush
   
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
Andre Maurois

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.
Jodi Picoult




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


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





“When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it's a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.”
― Erma Bombeck

“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
― Napoleon

“I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching--they are your family.”
― Jim Butcher

“Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say.”
― Rick Riordan

“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.”
― Rich


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

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family. ~Lee Iacocca

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. ~Anthony Brandt

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future. ~Gail Lumet Buckley

Of all hardness of heart there is none so inexcusable as that of parents toward their children. An obstinate, inflexible, unforgiving temper is odious upon all occasions; but here it is unnatural.—Addison.

Children, honor your parents in your hearts; bear them not only awe and respect, but kindness and affection: love their persons, fear to do anything that may justly provoke them —Jeremy Taylor.


I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. They are the real heroes, and so are the families and friends who have stood by them.
-- Christopher Reeve
   

Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
-- Jim Rohn
There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
-- Anwar Sadat    

* "Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them."
-- Jonas Salk
   

* "I want my child to walk in a world guided by love. This means that everybody will have a job, or the resources to take care of basic needs. A world where families are not oppressed and are connected to their neighbors and their communities, where the best in humanity is honored. That's when we will truly be at peace."
-- Malika Sanders
   

   

* "I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family."
-- Susan Sarandon

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

* Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
-- George Bernard Shaw

A happy family is but an earlier heaven
-- George Bernard Shaw
   

American families have always shown remarkable resiliency, or flexible adjustment to natural, economic, and social challenges. Their strengths resemble the elasticity of a spider web, a gull's skillful flow with the wind, the regenerating power of perennial grasses, the cooperation of an ant colony, and the persistence of a stream carving canyon rocks. These are not the strengths of fixed monuments but living organisms. This resilience is not measured by wealth, muscle or efficiency but by creativity, unity, and hope. Cultivating these family strengths is critical to a thriving human community.
-- Ben Silliman



    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

    What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. – Mother Teresa

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learnt the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything. – Muhammad Ali


Legouve Pere
A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Eva Burrows
In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.

Jim Rohn
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.

Marsha Norman
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.

Lee Iacocca
The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family.

Marie Curie
I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.

Will Smith
So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

Robert Frost
Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

Anais Nin
I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.



However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion, or all four. However far it may expand, the progression inevitably rests on unequal power and airtight roles within the family.
-- Gloria Steinem    

"The whole world is one family."
-- Sun Yat-sen

"A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living."
-- Charles Swindoll

* Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other - it doesn't matter who it is and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.
~ Mother Teresa
   
   

* Every child deserves a chance at a life
filled with love, laughter, friends and family.
-- Marlo Thomas



The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common. - Cicero

It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the domestic hearth, and to the little joys and endearments of a family. - James Ellis

The family is seldom unhappy whose dwelling is surrounded with shade trees, and whose garden is gay with cultivated plants. Do not, then, I beseech you, forget the little flower garden. - S.A. Peters

Let every family meet once a day or week for a real hearty sing, and their sing will give them more pleasure than they will take all the rest of the day. - Orson Squire Fowler

Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we falter. - Brad Henry

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. - Mother Teresa

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations. - Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, 1893

I sustain myself with the love of family. - Maya Angelou

Love, hate. Look, we're a family, what's the difference? - Al Bundee, Married with Children

A father lives after his death in his son. - Sanskrit

In every conceivable manner, the family is a link to our past, and a bridge to our future. - Alex Haley

A mother's love will draw up from depths of the sea. - Russian Proverb

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. - George Burns






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


Having a place to go - is a home.  Having someone to love - is a family.  Having both - is a blessing.  ~Donna Hedges


'Ohana means family - no one gets left behind, and no one is ever forgotten.  ~Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, Lilo & Stitch


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,


Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way
-- Leo Tolstoy

* You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
~Desmond Tutu    

Acting is just a way of making a living; the family is life.
-- Denzel Washington
   

“When I see brokenness, poverty and crime in inner cities, I also see the enormous potential and readiness for transformation and rebirth. We are creating an art form that comes from the heart and reflects the pain and sorrow of people's lives. It also expresses joy, beauty, and love. This process lays the foundation of building a genuine community in which people are reconnected with their families, sustained by meaningful work, nurtured by the care of each other and will together raise and educate their children. Then we witness social change in action.”
-- Lily Yeh

  
    A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

    No man has ever lived that had enough of children’s gratitude or woman’s love.
William Butler Yeats

    Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.
Lemony Snicket

    [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

    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

    Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.
Christopher Paolini


    Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What? You too? I thought I was the only one. – C.S. Lewis





For an America of wisdom that honors the family, knowing that if the family goes, so goes our civilization. - Ronald Reagan, State of the Union, February 6, 1985

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

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

I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family. - Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty, 2006

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy one is unhappy in its own way. - Leonard Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, 1877

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. - Thomas Jefferson

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. - Ben Franklin, Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, 1834

In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family. - Pope John Paul II, Letters to Families, 1994

I think the world today is upside-down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the homes and in family life. - Mother Teresa

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

The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family. - Pope John Paul II, Letters to Families, 1994






    We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over. – Samuel Johnson

    A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. -Elbert Hubbard

    A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow. – William Shakespeare

    What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. – Aristotle

    Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. -Elie Wiesel

    The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship. – Ralph Waldo Emerson



“This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.” | Arundhati Roy

“No man has ever lived that had enough of children’s gratitude or woman’s love.” | William Butler Yeats

“In time of test, family is best.” | Burmese Proverb

“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” | George Bernard Shaw

“My family comes first. Maybe that’s what makes me different from other guys.” | Bobby Darin

“Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.” | Michael J. Fox

“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

“There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.” | Herbert Prochnov

“One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.” | Jonathan Foer

“Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.” | Mitch Albom



    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

    Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.
Ann Brashares

    Our family is a circle of strength of love with every birth and every union the circle grows.
Unkown

    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 Dep

    The love of a family is life’s greatest blessings.
Unkown

    Family is the most important thing in the world.
Princess Diana of Wales








I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.
Jamie Lee Curtis
   
Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.
Jim Carrey
   

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.
Vartan Gregorian
   

The family is the first essential cell of human society.
Pope John XXIII
   

The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.
Jackie Kennedy
   

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
   

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
Douglas Coupland


Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
George Eliot




“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.” | Mother Teresa

“Families are like fudge | mostly sweet with a few nuts.” | Unknown

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close|knit family in another city.” | George Burns

“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

“Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life!” | Albert Einstein

“The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” | George Santayana

“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.” | Unknown

“When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you.” | Guy Lafleur

“The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.” | Jay McInerney

“You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.” | Elizabeth Berg

“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.” | George Moore





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





A man first quarrels with his father about three-quarters of a year before he is born.
    --Samuel Butler


Some people seem compelled by unkind fate to parental servitude for life. There is no form of penal service worse than this.
    --Samuel Butler


Cautiously avoid speaking of the domestic affairs either of yourself, or of other people. Yours are nothing to them but tedious gossip; and theirs are nothing to you.
    --Lord Chesterfield


Few fathers care much for their sons, or at least, most of them care more for their money. Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it.
    --Lord Chesterfield

Twenty thousand years ago the family was the social unit. Now the social unit has become the world, in which it may truthfully be said that each person’s welfare affects that of every other.
    --Arthur H. Compton


The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
    --Confucius


The graveyards are full of women whose houses were so spotless you could eat off the floor. Remember, the second wife always has a maid.
   --Heloise Cruise


my father moved through dooms of love through sames of am through haves of give, singing each morning out of each night my father moved through depths of height.
    --E.E. Cummings


On privacy and the birth of Prince William: I felt the whole country was in labor with me.—Princess Diana
    --Princess Diana






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


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 isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.” | Sarah Dessen

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.” | Oscar Wilde

“Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.” | Sam Levenson

“There’s nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.” | Willie Stargell

“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

“Govern a family as you would cook a small fish | very gently.” | Chinese Proverb

“I sustain myself with the love of family.” | Maya Angelou

“When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.” | Joyce Brothers

“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” | Desmond Tutu




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


The house of the childless is empty; and so is the heart of him that hath no wife. ~Hitopadesa


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


What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.  ~Robert Brault




 Family where life begins & love never ends.
Unkown

    In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.
Friedrich Nietzche

    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.
Unknown

    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

    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.
Unkown


“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

“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

“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 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

“Family is the most important thing in the world.” | Princess Diana

“All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family | it’s just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.” | Douglas Coupland

“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

“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

“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” | Richard Bach



    The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
Charles Kuralt

    The most importan thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Henry Ward Beecher

    An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
Spanish Proverb

    Family love is messy, clinging and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
Eva Burrows

    At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.
Mark V. Olsen

    Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl–no superior alternative has yet been found.
Winston Churchill

    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



“A man should never neglect his family for business.” | Walt Disney

“One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.” | Jonathan Safran Foer

“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” | John Bowring

“Having a place to go is a home. Having someone to love is a family. Having both is a blessing.” | Donna Hedges

“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching, they are your family.” | Jim Butcher

“Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.” | Ann Brashares

“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

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close| knit family in another city.” | George Burns

“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

“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.” | J.R.R. Tolkien

“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.” | Lee Iacocca




   

If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.
Jasmine Guy
   

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
Lee Iacocca
   

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
Barbara Bush
   

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.
Chaim Potok
   

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
John Ruskin
   

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
Charles R. Swindoll
   

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
Harmon Killebrew
   

 Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents —Hare.

A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family.—Rev. Thomas Scott

The sacred books of the ancient Persians say: "If you would be holy instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you."—Montesquieu.

In time of test, family is best. ~Burmese Proverb

If sisters were free to express how they really feel, parents would hear this: "Give me all the attention and all the toys and send Rebecca to live with Grandma." ~Linda Sunshine

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

Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts. ~Author Unknown

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

When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. ~Joyce Brothers

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

To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time. ~Clara Ortega

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



One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
Ralph Fiennes
   


Family is not an important thing. It’s everything. – Michael J. Fox

“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.” ― Mother Teresa

The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system. – Quentin

Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.- Channing Pollock

I don’t care how poor a man is; if he has family, he’s rich. – Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford

Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life!  - Albert Einstein

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family. – Bernard Shaw



Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
    --Ralph Ellison


Our family is not yet so good as to be degenerating.
    --Kurt Ewald



I grew up to have my father’s looks, my father’s speech patterns, my father’s posture, my father’s opinions and my mother’s contempt for my father.
    --Jules Feiffer



It isn’t success if it costs you the companionship and chumminess and love of your children. Very often busy, wealthy men of momentous affairs discover too late that they have sacrificed the finest thing in life, the affection of their family. Let me relate an incident [containing] a priceless suggestion for many ultra-busy businessmen. Frank L. Baker, prominent public utility executive, told a friend that he was going to give his young son an unusual Christmas present. I am going to write my boy a letter telling him I am going to give him an hour of my time every day. Alas, Mr. Baker died two weeks later.
    --B.C. Forbes


Occasionally we all inherit, or are given, or get something or some things that are too good to use for a variety of seemingly sound but really quite silly reasons-they’re heirlooms or too rare or too expensive or too fragile or too pretty. The result is heirloom linen handed down from generation to generation that falls apart when some benighted heiress decides to air it. While I’m glad that past generations saved some things we now enjoy, we are enjoying them by using them instead of carefully storing them for our kids-in turn to store. Unused beautiful things are a waste.
    --Malcolm Forbes


A father is a banker provided by nature.
    --French Proverb



Whenever I heard thunder in the mountains it was like the iron of my mother’s love.
    --Jack Kerouac


What is an editor but a cross between a fall guy and a father figure? arthur koestler
    --Arthur Koestler

Fathers don’t curse, they disinherit. Mothers curse.
    --Irma Kurtz


When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?
    --Sam Levenson

I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother.
    --Abraham Lincoln


On abusive Florentine soccer fans (quoted in 1998): They were rude about my mother, the poor woman, who is from Florence. But I do think they could leave my father alone. He died six years ago.
    --Marcello Lippi