Quotes About Connection

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

I have a very strong family.

There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.

Family is the last and greatest discovery. It is our last miracle.

If we're sitting at dinner and there's no conversation going on because everybody's got their head someplace else in their iPhone, that's a family problem that needs to be solved.

Your parents want to think they have a healthy, happy family.

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.

Gathering of the Vibes is a gathering of the elders, a gathering of the youth, a gathering of family

I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.

Maybe every family is dysfunctional, and that's the only thing in common throughout the world.

I think of my business and investments as extension of my family.

What they say about TV shows is true. You're really a family. You laugh, you fight, you get close, you know? Movies are shorter. They're over quicker. You don't form the same bonds.

Let every family meet once a day or week for a real hearty sing, and their sing will give them more pleasure than they will take all the rest of the day.

Although I really like the people I travel with, family is just different, and having them around at all times is a really nice thing - and a luxury.

I didn't grow up in a traditional family, and I never had a family dinner around the table, so whenever I actually had a dinner 'plan,' it meant a lot to me; it made me feel excited and safe.

My family and my friends are most important to me. These people are my foundation.

Abandon benevolence, discard duty, and people will return to the family ties.

Jello's Biafra kind of like my weird, retarded uncle. He's part of the family.

When I do public speaking, I ask the audience, "Who has a family member, a neighbor, a friend with some form of disability?" Every single hand goes up. We're all connected.

One truly affectionate soul in a family will evert a sweetening and harmonizing influence upon all its members.

There's nothing like meeting someone's family to get a true sense of them and a reflection of their ethics and personality. It just makes them a more rounded person.

I talk to my parents more than anybody in my family.

It's peaceful to think about the family as a group. I totally believe in extended families.

Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. (as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994)