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Quotes About Relationships

I would like to be part of a family, however that looks. Family is really important to me.
~ Lauren Graham
All happy families resemble one another every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
~ Leo Tolstoy
There are secrets in all families, you know.
~ Jane Austen, Emma
Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.
~ Erma Bombeck
There are no illegitimate children - only illegitimate parents.
~ Leon R. Yankwich
We live our entire lives thinking we know those closest to us. But do we ever really?
~ Hilary Grossman, Plan Bea
When family relations are no longer harmonious we have filial children and devoted parents.
~ R. D. Laing
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life and to do it rightly is an art like any other.
~ Freya Stark
The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
I pity my brother Ferdinand, knowing by my own feelings how sad a thing it is to live apart from one's family.
~ Marie Antoinette
Family politics are worse than world politics. That's all I can say. You don't get to choose your family you get to choose your friends. Your family is imposed upon you.
~ Michael Cimino
I'm really close to my family, and I really want one of my own. But the wedding, it's not necessary for me.
~ Julia Restoin Roitfeld
Honor your father and your mother.
~ Bible
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.
~ Joseph Addison
You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
~ Dale Carnegie
Human beings are the only creatures on Earth that allow children to come back home.
~ Bill Cosby
I think a dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.
~ Mary Karr
Adolescence is when children start trying to bring up their parents.
~ Richard Armour
Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved?
~ Florida Scott-Maxwell
God gave us our relatives thank God we can choose our friends.
~ Ethel Watts Mumford
I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult, and there was a lot of humor. None of it was painless humor. All of it was at someone else's expense. It was kind of always about power.
~ John Wells
Patience with family members and others who are close to us is vital for us to have happy homes.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
I feel very, very thankful to have the family that I do.
~ Matt Bomer
Thanks to having my dad travel with me, I don't feel quite cut off from my family.
~ Amy Jackson