Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.
Anthony Brandt Quotes
If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion.
Ashleigh Brilliant Quotes
Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts.
Author Unknown Quotes
To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
Barbara Bush Quotes
In time of test, family is best.
Burmese Proverb Quotes
The family is a haven in a heartless world.
Christopher Lasch Quotes
When it comes to our families, we sometimes see only our differences. We
see the way our parents cling to ideas we don’t believe, or act in ways we try
not to act. We see how practical one of our siblings is and wonder how we can be
from the same gene pool. Similarly, within the human family we see how different
we are from each other, in ways ranging from gender and race to geographical
location and religious beliefs. It is almost as if we think we are a different
species sometimes. But the truth is, in our personal families as well as the
human family, we really are the same. A single mother of four living in Africa
looks up at the same stars and moon that shine down on an elderly Frenchman in
Paris. A Tibetan monk living in India, a newborn infant in China, and a young
couple saying their marriage vows in Indiana all breathe the same air, by the
same process. We have all been hurt and we have all cried. Each one of us knows
how it feels to love someone dearly. No matter what our political views are, we
all love to laugh. Regardless of how much or how little money we have, our
hearts pump blood through our bodies in the same way. With all this in common,
it is clear we are each individual members of the same family. We are human.
Acknowledging how close we all are, instead of clinging to what separates us,
enables us to feel less alone in the world. Every person we meet, see, hear, or
read about, is a member of our family. We are truly not alone. We also begin to
see that we are perfectly capable of understanding and relating to people who,
on the surface, may seem very different from us. This awareness prevents us from
disconnecting from people on the other side of the tracks, and the other side of
the world. We begin to understand that we must treat all people for what they
are—family.
DailyOM Quotes
You may feel introspective today and driven to engage in activities that
will help you better understand yourself. The distant past of your ancestors can
feel like a safe place to begin your reflective journey of the soul. Yet you
will likely discover that you learn much more than you expected about your
habits, preferences, and aptitudes. Your family history can often tell you much
about the origin of the traits that define you. As you contemplate the
connection you bear to your ancestry, take a moment to catalog your most obvious
physical, emotional, and intellectual traits. Your contemplations can lead you
to insights today that aid you as you strive to become a more conscious
individual. When we search for the roots of the traits that make us who we are
rather than simply accepting that we will be who we will be, we empower
ourselves to cultivate the parts of ourselves in which we can take pride.
Similarly, we are able to divest ourselves gradually of those traits that don’t
correspond to our individual value systems because we understand precisely why
and how they developed. As we search in our past and in our heritage for clues
concerning our personalities and preferences, we begin to see how our personal
histories have affected our growth in general and the rate of our evolution. We
can then work on our issues with an informed and thoughtful perspective. As you
dig deeply into your past today, you will begin to see a pattern emerge that
illuminates much of your character.
DailyOM Quotes
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich.
Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford Quotes
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
Desmond Tutu Quotes
The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor,
in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.
Dodie Smith Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
Fred Allen Quotes
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 Quotes
Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the
past, present, and future.
Gail Lumet Buckley Quotes
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 Quotes
What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined
for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
George Eliot Quotes
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
George Santayana Quotes
Friends are God's apology for relations.
Hugh Kingsmill Quotes
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 Quotes
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
Johann Schiller Quotes
When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.
Joyce Brothers Quotes
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.
Kendall Hailey Quotes
The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works
is the family.
Lee Iacocca Quotes
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 Quotes
Are we not like two volumes of one book?
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore Quotes
In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however,
it was sorry.
Margaret Laurence Quotes
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 Quotes
The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become
our best while looking our worst.
Marge Kennedy Quotes
At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.
Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer Quotes
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 Quotes
We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never
break.
Marquise de Sévigné Quotes
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 Quotes
There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.
Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
All of these years without a single memento of my family. It's like you've
returned a part of them to me.
'Missing' Quotes
The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's
essential unfairness.
Nancy Mitford Quotes
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an
occasional animal, and the common cold.
Ogden Nash Quotes
Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would
give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily
life too often as if we take our family for granted.
Paul Pearshall Quotes
The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe,
to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father
and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for
a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety
in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which
he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was
born.
Pearl S. Buck Quotes
They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or
her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all
ran along separate lines. Family life is like this - animated, but collateral.
Rose Macaulay Quotes
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 Quotes
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
Spanish Proverb Quotes
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 Quotes
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in
the bosom of my family.
Thomas Jefferson Quotes
If you've had wonderful family relationships, you will be able to call
yourself a true success in life no matter what else you've achieved.
Vic Conant Quotes
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