Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friends are God's apology for relations.
-Hugh Kingsmill

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

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

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

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

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 time of test, family is best.
-Burmese Proverb

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

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

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
-Johann Schiller

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

Blood's thicker than water, and when one's in trouble Best to seek out a relative's open arms.
-Anonymous Author

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.
-Nancy Mitford

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

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