To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
Barbara Bush
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
Thomas Jefferson
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
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
Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.
Gail Lumet Buckley
There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained
Winston Churchill
A happy family is but an earlier heaven
George Bernard Shaw
Writers will happen in the best of families.
Rita Mae Brown
The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
Lee Iacocca
charity begins in your own family.
Begum Aga Khan
I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it.
Louise Bourgeois
England is very, very important to me, because in my family the English could do no wrong. When my father picked a mistress, it was always an English girl: if he made her pregnant, she could be shipped back to England and he would not be held responsible. It never happened, but I've made a lot of work called The English Can Do No Wrong.
Louise Bourgeois
Mamma does all she can,' said she, 'to make me feel myself a burden and incumbrance to the family, and the most ungrateful, selfish, and undutiful daughter that ever was born;
Anne Bront
There are only two families in the world, the Haves and the Have-Nots.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra