~ The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. ~
~ The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. ~
~ 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. ~
~ The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family. ~
~ The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst. ~
~ Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. ~
~ I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. ~
~ Writers will happen in the best of families. ~
~ In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry. ~
~ Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.
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~ The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness. ~
~ 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. ~