More Family Sayings And Quotes

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“The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.”
– Thomas Jefferson, 1813

“When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“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.”
– Jane Howard

“In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured.”
– Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

“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.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“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.”
– Paul Pearshall

“The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life’s essential unfairness.”
– Nancy Mitford

“Having a place to go – is a home. Having someone to love – is a family. Having both – is a blessing.”
– Donna Hedges

” ‘Ohana means family – no one gets left behind, and no one is ever forgotten.”
– Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, Lilo & Stitch

“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“The family – that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.”
– Dodie Smith

“The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you.”
– Kendall Hailey, The Day I Became an Autodidact

“In time of test, family is best.”
– Burmese Proverb

“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.”
– Marsha Norman

“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family.”
– Lee Iacocca

“Friends are God‘s apology for relations.”
– Hugh Kingsmill

“They… threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines. Family life is like this – animated, but collateral.”
– Rose Macaulay

“What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life – to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.”
– George Eliot

“At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.”
– Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer, Big Love, “Easter”

“If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable – each segment distinct.”
– Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families – that they are least two-thirds incontinent.”
– Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

“The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst.”
– Marge Kennedy

“We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.”
– Marquise de Sévigné

“The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.”
– Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. ”
– Anthony Brandt

“There’s an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.”
– Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

“Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.”
– Gail Lumet Buckley

“If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that “Members not Present” and “Subjects Discussed” were one and the same.”
– Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

“Are we not like two volumes of one book?”
– Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

“I don’t have to look up my family tree, because I know that I’m the sap.”
– Fred Allen

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