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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, rbrault.blogspot.com

The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you. – Kendall Hailey, The Day I Became an Autodidact

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

Family is just accident…. They don’t mean to get on your nerves. They don’t even mean to be your family, they just are. – Marsha Norman

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

Friends are God’s apology for relations. – Hugh Kingsmill

A preoccupied family: they none of them threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each ploughed 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, Daisy & Daphne, 1928

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, rbrault.blogspot.com