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~ When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. ~

~ To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. ~

~ 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

~ 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

~ 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

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

Marge Kennedy

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

Anthony Brandt

~ I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. ~

Fred Allen

~ Truth, self control, asceticism, generosity, non-injury, constancy in virtue ó these are the means of success, not caste or family. ~

Mahabharata

~ The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other ~

Charles Caleb Colton

~ We have been told, O Krishna, that people whose family traditions are destroyed necessarily dwell in hell for a long time. ~

Bhagavad Gita

~ Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family. ~

George Bernard Shaw

~ Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship. ~

Margaret Mead

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

Earl Wilson

~ Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family. ~

Jerry B. Jenkins

~ The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other. ~

Mario Puzo

~ And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families. ~

Senator John Kerry

~ Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. ~

David Ogilvy

~ All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul. ~

Mahatma Gandhi

~ When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change. ~

Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh

~ Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale. ~

Oliver Goldsmith

~ My life is -- as if each person I know was born with a beautiful book with golden edges on each page -- and each of us can read the language of our own book -- containing our own unique values, ideas, insights and direction, yet we cannot read the language of anyone else's book, and they cannot read our book. And, then, you and I started talking and I discovered that while the words in your book are different from mine, the language of your book is exactly the same as mine -- and words flow and flow between us without effort. Then, I looked closer in my book and I saw beautiful, happy pictures of you and your family...and I smiled ~

Laura Teresa Marquez

~ Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends and society are the natural enemies of a writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking. ~

Laurence Clark Powell

~ The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic. ~

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

~ Actors are one family over the entire world. ~

Alfre Woodard

~ Teaching civility is an obligation of the family. ~

Stephen Carter

~ There is no such thing as fun for the whole family. ~

Jerry Seinfeld

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