Quotes About Connection

Keep ya family close and your based family closer.

Better a near neighbour than a distant cousin.

You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him...The people who give you their food give you their heart.

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers

If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

Family is not an important thing, it's everything.

You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back.

In time of test, family is best.

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family

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

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

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

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.

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

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.