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
A family is a bunch of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
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, rbrault.blogspot.com
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. – Anthony Brandt
There’s an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than. – Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966
Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future. – Gail Lumet Buckley
If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that “Members not Present” and “Subjects Discussed” were one and the same. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
The house of the childless is empty; and so is the heart of him that hath no wife. – Hitopadesa
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, rbrault.blogspot.com
Go home, find a wench, raise fat babies, live a good long life. – R. Scott Gemmill & Gil Grant, NCIS: Los Angeles, “Brimstone” (S1, E10, 2009, Het
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. – Abdul Kalam
Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten. – David Ogden Stiers
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege. – Charles Kuralt
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship. – Margaret Mead
Family is the most important thing in the world. – Princess Diana
A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
A happy family is but an earlier heaven. – George Bernard Shaw
