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.