Quotations about Family I

I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford, "Identity Crisis," M*A*S*H


It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller


The family is a haven in a heartless world. ~Attributed to Christopher Lasch


Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation. ~Margaret Mead


Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts. ~Author Unknown


If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion. ~Ashleigh Brilliant


We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies. ~Shirley Abbott


Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. ~Evan Esar


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


The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. ~Erma Bombeck


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


In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry. ~Margaret Laurence


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. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. ~Desmond Tutu


An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverbs


The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind. ~Thomas Jefferson, 1813


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


When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. ~George Bernard Shaw


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


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