“I’m the mother of 5. When God said, ‘Multiply and replenish the earth’ I thought he meant me personally!” – Dee Shihady
“When you look at your life the greatest happiness are family happinesses” – Dr. Joyce Brothers
“We always say ‘I would kill for my family’ or ‘I would die for my family’ but would you really? I mean, when really put …
“Children learn to smile from their parents.” – Shinichi Suzuki
“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 of life’s greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn’t good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild …
“A man can’t make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.” – Helen Keller
“Family is the most important thing in the world.” – Princess Diana
“The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.” – George Carlin
“No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, …
“It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.” – Anne Sexton
“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I …
“All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree-I don’t understand me very …
“Marriage is a great institution. No family should be without it.” – Mae West
“This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and …
“A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful …
“It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.” – Confucius
“You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren’t dying. They’re merging into big conglomerates.” – Erma Bombeck
“To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.” – Barbara Bush
“There’s no vocabulary For love within a family, love that’s lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is …
“Other things may change us, but we start and end with family” – Anthony Brandt
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” – Theodore Hesburgh
“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” – Richard Bach
“The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other” – Burton Hills
“If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to …
“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.” – George …
“I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, …
“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” – George Bernard Shaw
“In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.” – Eva Burrows
“Family faces are magic mirrors looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future” – Gail Lumet Buckley
“We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“When you educate a man you educate an individual when you educate a woman you educate a whole family” – Johnetta Cole
“All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach …
“As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.” – Pope John Paul II
“Treat your family like friends and your friends like family.” – Proverb
“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” – Bishop Desmond Tutu