306 quotes
“Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth you owe me. What happens with a love like that in a family. It lights the whole world.”
— Hafiz
“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
“In youth we learn in age we understand our family bonds better.”
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
“There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues are created.”
— Winston Churchill
“The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.”
— Confucius
“Let the wife make the husband glad to come home and let him make her sorry to see him leave through family love.”
— Martin Luther
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all family wisdom.”
— Aristotle
“Above all do not lie to yourself or to your family members. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth.”
— Dostoevsky
“Family is the thing that you are given and the thing you go away from and the thing you come back to.”
— Amy Tan
“Be kind for everyone you meet within your family is fighting a hard battle.”
— Socrates
“The family — that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.”
— Dodie Smith
“One of the secrets of family life is that all the really important things are said in jest.”
— Lewis Carroll
“When we are no longer able to change a situation in family we are challenged to change ourselves.”
— Viktor Frankl
“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living family.”
— Cicero
“I have not failed in my family. I have just found 10000 ways that didnt work but we kept loving.”
— Thomas Edison
“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”
— Elizabeth Stone
“Each family member has a face that they show to the world and an inner face they reveal only at home.”
— Anais Nin
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are within your family circle.”
— Joseph Campbell
“A man should never neglect his family for business.”
— Walt Disney
“Sons are the anchors of a mothers life.”
— Sophocles
“In family life love is the oil that eases friction the cement that binds closer together and the music that brings harmony.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Happiness is having a large loving caring close-knit family in another city.”
— George Burns
“The greatest weapon against stress in family life is our ability to choose one thought over another.”
— William James
“There is nothing like staying at home in a family for real comfort.”
— Jane Austen
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer within a family. Always remember you have within you the strength the patience and the passion to reach for the stars.”
— Harriet Tubman
“Life is partly what we make it and partly what it is made by the friends and family we choose.”
— Tennessee Williams
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf shared with family.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“Our life in family is frittered away by detail. Simplify simplify.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few when speaking to family.”
— Pythagoras
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love in your family. It will not lead you astray.”
— Rumi
“The best way to keep children at home in a family is to make the home atmosphere pleasant and let the air out of the tires.”
— Dorothy Parker
“The family is the first essential cell of human society.”
— Pope John XXIII
“The greatest family thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself while being part of something larger.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become in a special way the servant of the others.”
— Thomas Moore
“The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman.”
— Unknown
“Family life is too important to be taken seriously all the time. It must also have joy and laughter.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
“For family gives meaning to suffering and transforms tragedy into achievement.”
— Victor Frankl
“Every family experience God gives us every person He puts in our family lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.”
— Corrie ten Boom
“Accept the things to which fate binds you and love the people with whom fate brings you together in family and do so with all your heart.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.”
— Alex Haley
“Life in a family can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only and that is to support the ultimate career.”
— C.S. Lewis
“A good family is one that practices the Tao without knowing it.”
— Lao Tzu
“Being deeply loved by family gives you strength while loving family deeply gives you courage.”
“I long as does every human being to be at home wherever I find myself within my family.”
— Maya Angelou
“Keep true to the dreams of thy family youth.”
— Friedrich Schiller
“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose.”
— Edward Coke
“Family is not an important thing. It is everything.”
— Michael J. Fox
“In the depth of winter within my family I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
— Albert Camus
“It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are. We learn from family.”
— Wendell Berry
“Close your eyes in family and fall in love and stay there.”
“The past is never dead in family. It is not even past.”
— William Faulkner
“Strive not to be a success but rather to be of value to your family and community.”
— Albert Einstein
“The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself.”
— G.K. Chesterton
“The family is one of natures masterpieces.”
— George Santayana
“When everything goes to hell the people who stand by you without flinching they are your family.”
— Jim Butcher
“Govern a family as you would cook a small fish — very gently.”
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of your family.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.”
— Fred Rogers
“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with family.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“There is no remedy for love in family but to love more.”
— Thoreau
“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children through families.”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“To put the world right in order we must first put the family in order.”
“A house without books is like a room without windows in a family home.”
— Horace Mann
“Home is the place where when you have to go there they have to take you in.”
— Robert Frost
“Love in family does not consist of gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“How wonderful it is that nobody in a family need wait a single moment before starting to improve their relationships.”
— Anne Frank
“The love of family in all its forms is really about one thing: finding the courage to meet life.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“When we love in family we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better everything around us becomes better too.”
— Paulo Coelho
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality in our family relationships.”
— Plutarch
“Every generation in a family needs a new revolution of love and understanding.”
— Margaret Mead
“The heart of a mother in a family is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
— Honoré de Balzac
“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children through families.”
“The moment one gives close attention to any family member even a difficult one they become a mysterious awesome magnificently complex world.”
— Henry Miller
“In the realm of family there is nothing ugly or unworthy when approached with love.”
— Goethe
“The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream of family life is the one that sings.”
“Be kind for every family member you meet is fighting a hard battle you know nothing about.”
— Plato
“Nothing happens in family unless first a dream is planted in fertile hearts.”
— Carl Sandburg
“Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly within the family.”
— Langston Hughes
“Grow old along with me in our family. The best is yet to be.”
— Robert Browning
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
— Theodore Hesburgh
“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“Mistakes in family are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.”
— Nikki Giovanni
“If the only prayer you ever say in your whole family life is thank you that would suffice.”
— Meister Eckhart
“Family ties mean that no matter how much you might want to run from your family you usually come back eventually.”
— Susan Sontag
“The significance of a man in family is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain for those he loves.”
— Khalil Gibran
“The family is the one institution you find wherever you find human beings.”
— Hannah Arendt
“In family the purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“In the truest sense freedom cannot be bestowed it must be achieved. It cannot be enjoyed unless it comes through family.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Like all the best families we have our share of eccentricities of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.”
— Queen Elizabeth II
“Start by doing what is necessary in your family then do what is possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
— Francis of Assisi
“A single act of love makes the soul return to life.”
— Leo Buscaglia
“I agree with no ones opinion in my family. I have some of my own that serve me well.”
— Ivan Turgenev
“Attention in family is the rarest and purest form of generosity toward those we love.”
— Simone Weil
“That best portion of a good familys life consists of little nameless unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”
— William Wordsworth
“The beginning of family love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.”
— Thomas Merton
“I sustain myself with the love of family.”
“It is not only what we do in family but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.”
— Moliere
“In marriage and family you are in the dark together. You tumble about not knowing what it is you have hold of.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“Family is not just an important thing in life. It is the only thing that truly matters when everything else fades away.”
“I am no bird and no net ensnares me. I am a free human being with an independent will within my family.”
— Charlotte Bronte
“To us family means putting your arms around each other and being there.”
— Mark Twain
“That which does not kill us in family makes us stronger together.”
“Love and compassion are necessities not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”
— Dalai Lama
“If you love somebody in your family let them go for if they return they were always yours.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential in family is invisible to the eye.”
“A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men women an occasional animal and the common cold.”
— Ogden Nash
“Sacred are the ties of kindred, and the sway of love surpasses every other feeling.”
— Euripides
“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
— Louisa May Alcott
“A mothers love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”
— Agatha Christie
“We should look for someone to eat and drink with in family before looking for something to eat and drink.”
— Epicurus
“A family that works together stays together and that is the only success that matters.”
— Emily Dickinson
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled by family.”
“Better to be kind at home than to burn incense in a far place.”
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of especially in family matters.”
— Blaise Pascal
“Through family others we become ourselves. The child learns through family interaction.”
— Lev Vygotsky
“Where thou art that is family home.”
“Family life is like an iceberg. Most people see only the tip that is visible above the water.”
— Alice Munro
“The best thing about family life is that it forces you to grow and love beyond yourself.”
— Dorothy Day
“I believe that family first is the key to success.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“You do not choose your family they are given to you but you can choose your friends”
— Desmond Tutu
“You dont choose your family. They are Gods gift to you as you are to them.”
“The soul is healed by being with children in a loving family.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Whoever you are come forth. You must not stay sleeping and dallying in the house of your family though you built it or though it has been built for you.”
— Walt Whitman
“To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.”
— Barbara Bush
“Family is a collection of people who share the same genes but cannot agree on a place for dinner.”
— Anne Lamott
“At the end of your life you will never regret not having passed one more test not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband a friend a child or a parent.”
“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“Connection is why we are here. It is what gives purpose and meaning to our family lives.”
— Brene Brown
“There is no trust more sacred than the one the family holds. It is the family that shapes the future of the child.”
— Kofi Annan
“A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.”
“What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other within our families.”
— George Eliot
“He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”
— Helen Keller
“Arise awake and stop not till the goal of family harmony is reached.”
— Swami Vivekananda
“The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste coveting one anothers desserts.”
— Erma Bombeck
“Nothing you do for your family children is ever wasted.”
— Garrison Keillor
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone within families.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
“A baby is Gods opinion that the world should go on and that families should continue.”
“Do not worry about holding high family position. Worry about playing your proper family role.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their family dreams.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl — no superior alternative has yet been found.”
“Failure is impossible when you have the support of a loving family behind you.”
— Susan B. Anthony
“And now that you dont have to be perfect in your family you can be good.”
— John Steinbeck
“Every family should look upon every other family member with eyes of compassion.”
— Voltaire
“A mans character is his fate and family shapes that character.”
— Heraclitus
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do.”
“Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after in a family.”
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“You may house the bodies of your children but not their souls. For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow.”
“Very little is needed to make a happy family life. It is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
“I expect to pass through this world but once and I want to do all the good I can for my family.”
— William Penn
“Within your family you have a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.”
— Hermann Hesse
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being in family the more joy you can contain.”
“All that I am or ever hope to be I owe to my angel mother.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
— Audrey Hepburn
“The first and best victory is to conquer self within the family sphere.”
“True family happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future.”
— Seneca
“In separateness lies the worlds great misery. In compassionate family lies the worlds true strength.”
— Buddha
“Children learn more from what you are in family than what you teach.”
— W.E.B. Du Bois
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its family homes.”
“Home is the place where your family lives. Not just a building but a feeling of safety belonging and love.”
— Toni Morrison
“Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.”
“The greatest wealth is family health and happiness combined.”
— Virgil
“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already within our families.”
— J.K. Rowling
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of lifes longing for itself.”
“Success in family is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached but by the obstacles which one has overcome while maintaining love.”
— Booker T. Washington
“Love is all we have in family. It is the one way that each can help the other.”
“The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst.”
— Marge Kennedy
“The supreme happiness of family life is the conviction that we are loved for ourselves.”
— Victor Hugo
“The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.”
“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”
— William Shakespeare
“In time of test, family is best.”
“Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated mistakes are tolerated communication is open.”
— Virginia Satir
“Understanding is the foundation of love in family. When you understand someone you love them more deeply.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“The family motto of the human race should be: You cant choose your relatives.”
— Terry Pratchett
“If you as parents cut corners your children will too. If you lie they will too.”
— Marian Wright Edelman
“The greatest good you can do for another in your family is not just to share your riches but to reveal to them their own.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
“Wherever you go no matter what the weather always bring your own sunshine to family gatherings.”
— Jim Rohn
“A little magic can take you a long way in family life.”
— Roald Dahl
“There is no happiness in a family where virtue has no place.”
“When I was young I admired clever people. Now that I am old I admire kind people within my family.”
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
“The strongest of all warriors in the family are these two: Time and Patience.”
“Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged through the years.”
“We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads through family.”
— Herman Melville
“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
— King Solomon
“The things that families do together make the most lasting memories.”
— Woodrow Wilson
“The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love they will bloom like flowers.”
“Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose in the family.”
— Mary Shelley
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who matter in your family wont mind and those who mind dont matter.”
— Dr. Seuss
“Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon them and to let them know that you trust them within the family.”
“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
— Pablo Picasso
“The family has a value that is difficult to exaggerate in the formation of character and in the preservation of civilization.”
— Bertrand Russell
“I learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams within the family he will meet with success.”
“People see God every day they just dont recognize Him because He comes disguised as family members.”
— Pearl Bailey
“The lack of emotional security in a family life is the great tragedy of modern existence.”
— Pearl S. Buck
“Each person in a family must live their life as a model for others.”
— Rosa Parks
“Be courteous to all in your family but intimate with few and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.”
— George Washington
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues in family but the parent of all the others.”
“Home is the nicest word there is when you share it with family.”
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
“The family is the building block on which a great society is founded.”
— Margaret Thatcher
“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”
— Mother Teresa
“In America there are two classes of travel: first class and with family children.”
— Russell Baker
“Where there is great love in a family there are always miracles.”
— Willa Cather
“Family friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.”
— Francis Bacon
“Home is where the family heart is and the heart is where love resides.”
— Pliny the Elder
“We are happy when we have family, we are happy when we have friends, and almost all the other things we think make us happy are actually just ways of getting more family and friends.”
— Daniel Gilbert
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest family bonds. The most massive characters in families are seared with scars.”
“Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole of family life by far the most important is the acquisition of friends who become like family.”
“Family life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away together.”
— Norman Cousins
“There are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it in family.”
— Edith Wharton
“No family is free who is not master of himself.”
— Epictetus
“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.”
— Bob Marley
“Families are always rising and falling in America so let them rise with love and fall with grace.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
“First say to yourself what you would be in your family and then do what you have to do.”
“It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.”
“There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.”
“Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury in family healing.”
— Jean de La Fontaine
“There are years in family life that ask questions and years that answer.”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“He who has not a good father should procure a good father-in-law.”
— Baltasar Gracián
“He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin.”
“I wonder how many people I have looked at all my life in my family and never seen.”
“Other things may change us but we start and end with family.”
— Anthony Brandt
“Every great family dream begins with a dreamer who dares to believe.”
“You will always be your childs favorite toy.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Better a handful of dried dates and content therewith than to own the Gate of Peacocks and be kicked in the eye by a broody camel.”
“The family is the school of duties founded on love.”
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world through family.”
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love and let it come in through family.”
— Mitch Albom
“Family life is a fort for well-being and salvation.”
— Baha ullah
“Educating the mind without educating the heart within the family is no education at all.”
“There can be no keener revelation of a societys soul than the way in which it treats its children.”
— Nelson Mandela
“Yesterday in family is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin with love.”
“The most important thing in the world is family and love.”
— John Wooden
“The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended — and not to take a hint when a hint is not intended.”
“When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.”
— Antisthenes
“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.”
“The soul is healed by being with family children and finding peace in their innocence.”
“Families are like fudge: mostly sweet with a few nuts.”
— Wilfred Peterson
“Every child in a family comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of humanity.”
“When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.”
— Joyce Brothers
“It is easier to build strong children within loving families than to repair broken men.”
— Frederick Douglass
“I exist as I am in my family and that is enough.”
“A loving family provides the foundation from which each member can go out and face the world with confidence.”
— Charles Dickens
“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us.”
— Washington Irving
“If you want your family children to turn out well spend twice as much time with them and half as much money.”
— Will Rogers
“Family love is the most powerful force in the world. It cannot be seen or measured yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment.”
“The good life in family is a process not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.”
— Carl Rogers
“He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders but they have never failed to imitate them.”
— James Baldwin
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge beginning in the family.”
“When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.”
“One is never tired of family if the boat is small enough and the family interesting enough.”
— Gustave Flaubert
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest and the family is where that knowledge begins.”
“When your children are teenagers it is important to have a dog in the family so that someone in the house is happy to see you.”
— Nora Ephron
“The more corrupt the state the more numerous the laws but the family remains the moral compass.”
— Tacitus
“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood but of respect and joy in each others life.”
— Richard Bach
“Family is the first school for young ones. Mothers and fathers are the first teachers.”
“United families stand divided families fall.”
— Aesop
“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters in a family.”
— George Herbert
“In search of my mothers garden I found my own.”
— Alice Walker
“All happy families are alike but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that family things are difficult.”
“To live is the rarest thing in the world in a family. Most people in families exist and that is all.”
— Oscar Wilde
“A family tree is full of sap and the fruit it bears speaks of the root.”
— Osho
“If you surrender to the wind of family love you can ride it.”
“Family is both the cradle and the crucible of our becoming.”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“As we express our gratitude we must never forget that the highest appreciation in family is not to utter words but to live by them.”
— John F. Kennedy
“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination in family life.”
“No one can make you feel inferior in your family without your consent.”
“Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.”
“Nothing in family life is to be feared it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less.”
— Marie Curie
“For one human being to love another within a family that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“Alone in our families we can do so little but together we can do so much.”
“Happy is the family which can make an entire world of its own circle.”
— Ovid
“When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk with family under the stars.”
— Chinua Achebe
“Family happiness can exist only in acceptance of the whole of family life.”
— George Orwell
“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton you may as well make it dance.”
“It is not what happens to you but how your family reacts that matters.”
“To love a family member is to see the face of God in them.”
“The proper function of family is to live not to exist merely.”
— Jack London
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness in my family. It took me years to understand that this too was a gift.”
— Mary Oliver
“The family is one of nature's masterpieces.”
“People always think that happiness in a family is a thing you find. It is a thing you create.”
— Betty Smith
“No family can be truly happy if it is not built on a foundation of mutual respect.”
— Mary Wollstonecraft
“Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.”
“Whatever else family is said of it the action of grace in a familys heart is very mysterious indeed.”
— James Joyce
“Family happiness is the highest good and the foundation upon which all human flourishing rests.”
— Aeschylus
“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”
— William Makepeace Thackeray
“Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights and our comfort when we occasionally falter.”
— Brad Henry
“Think where family glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such family friends.”
— W.B. Yeats
“I am angry nearly every day of my life in my family but I have learned not to show it.”
“A husband in a family is what is left of a lover after the nerve has been extracted.”
— Helen Rowland
“The secret source of humor in a family is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.”
“Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers but it is love just the same and most mothers kiss and scold together.”
“Be not afraid of family life. The island of knowledge in the sea of love is worth every sacrifice.”
— Henry James
“Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.”
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