Family Quotes

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

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

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible -- the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family. ---Virginia Satir

The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfilment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness which it is given to man to taste upon earth are, thanks to this angel, the joys of the Family. ---- Giuseppe Mazzini

The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to. ------Dodie Smith

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. ----Ogden Nash

The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it. ---- Margaret Sanger

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive. ----Stella Benson

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. ---- Thich Nhat Hanh

Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul. --Thomas Moore

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals--or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all. A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal? ------Rose Macaulay

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.