Quotes About Family

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap

The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back

Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently

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

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained

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

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct

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

The family is one of nature's masterpieces

I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich

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

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

The love of a family is life's greatest blessing

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife