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Quotes About Relationships

There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.
~ Gus Van Sant
There is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents.
~ Robert Breault
We ought to encourage our children to know their relatives. We need to talk of them, make effort to correspond with them, visit them, join family organizations, etc.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.
~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
Heaven? Floating about with everyone you ever knew for eternity? Me family does me 'ed in after one day at xmas, I'd rather be mush.
~ Karl Pilkington
Within the stability of a family struggle, when there's less chaos, you can have the most soul-searching and the most digging to find out what and who you really are.
~ Greg Bryk
My mum certainly isn't a prude, nor is my brother, so I think I'm lucky to have a family like that.
~ Roxanne McKee
From the psychological jousting between sisters in the early family arena emerge the first tentative boundaries of their personalities.
~ Elizabeth Fishel
A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
~ Alexander Pope
In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.
~ Hortense Calisher
That's how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don't bother hardly getting to know each other at all.
~ Orson Scott Card
My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability. I believe the same can be said of many families.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
I know. You know I know. I know you know I know. We know Henry knows and Henry knows we know it. We're a knowledgeable family.
~ James Goldman
My folks are in Jersey. And I have a lot of friends and other family there. So, I try to visit as much as possible.
~ Kal Penn
Christ didn't leave us a book of instructions; He left us a body, a family - a Church. If it were perfectly clear, there wouldn't be any freedom.
~ Francis George
The family is the corner stone of our society.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
When the family collapses, it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale, the community itself is crippled.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.
~ John C. Maxwell
I have a very strong family.
~ Janet Jackson
I wanted to be at my sister's funeral, but my family has always had a complicated dynamic.
~ Nick Carter
Family is the last and greatest discovery. It is our last miracle.
~ James McBride
Growing up, my family wasn't very tight. We were more like a tour group with secrets.
~ Dennis Miller
We use tools such as email, not just as a way to keep in daily touch with family members who live in other cities, but also as a way to keep in touch with staff and members of the public.
~ Tipper Gore