| "To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others." »Pope John Paul II |
| "To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense." »John Irving |
| "One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family." »Robert C. Byrd |
| "The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof." »Richard Bach |
| "I am years gone from my family and miles away ... but they raid by telephone with jarring suddenness they have the cyclic constancy of a mortgage and they are inevitable and relentless, like the erosion of my remaining youth. Like certain frightening dreams, my family returns." »Jerrold Mundis |
| "Like the old motto of a famous Sunday paper, 'All human life was there' in the stately circle of the Mountbatten-Windsors, as the family coped in semipublic with those everlasting elements of human interest-sickness, scandal, family tension and divorce." »John Pearson |
| "That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional." »Laurie E. Colwin |
| "Don Corleone Do you spend time with your family Good. Because a man that doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man." »Godfather, The |
| "family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about." »Trey and Matt Stone Parker |
| "The family is the country of the heart." »Giuseppe Mazzini |
| "Heirlooms we don't have in our family. But stories we've got." »Rose Cherin |
| "There is no such thing as fun for the whole family." »Jerry Seinfeld |
| "There's a lot of heredity in that family." »Ralph Kiner |
| "A family, although not a necessity, is the ultimate luxury." »Eric Pio |
| "You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them." »Desmond Tutu |
| "The presidency is temporary-but the family is permanent." »Yvonne De Gaulle |
| "If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family." »Jewish Proverb |
| "Many men can make a fortune by very few can build a family." »J. S. Bryan |
| "Having a place to go - is a home. Having someone to love - is a family. Having both - is a blessing." »Donna Hedges |
| "Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family." »Anthony Brandt |
| "Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college." »Tom Masson |
| "The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors." »Mary Catherine Bateson |
| "So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip." »Will Rogers |
| "The story of my boyhood and that of my brothers is important only because it could happen in any American family. It did, and will again." »Earl Eisenhower |
| "No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished" »Lee Iacocca |
| "Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." »George Burns |
| "The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business." »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf." »Bertrand Russell |
| "In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along." »Antonin Scalia |
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