Quotes

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"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

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"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

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"At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable."

-Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer

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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

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"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

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"Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, 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

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

-Desmond Tutu

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"An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship."

-Spanish Proverb

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"Blood's thicker than water, and when one's in trouble

Best to seek out a relative's open arms."

-Author Unknown

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“Other things may change us, but we start and end with family”

- Anthony Brandt

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“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family.“

-Lee Iacocca

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"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

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"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

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"Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future."

-Gail Lumet Buckley

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"Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance."

-Milton R. Saperstein

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"Family life is full of major and minor crises - the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce - and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul."

-Thomas Moore

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"Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family."

-Virginia Satir

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"Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter."

-Brad Henry

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"In each family a story is playing itself out, and each family's story embodies its hope and despair."

-Auguste Napier

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"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future."

-Alex Haley

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"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, what have you really accomplished?"

-Elbert Hubbard

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“Kindness is Christianity with its working clothes on. ”

- Unknown?

ps:you wouldn't know that, reading some posts.

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“Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do.”

- Elvis Presley

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First improve yourself, and then judge others.

Jewish Proverb

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Pride is the mask of one's faults.

Jewish Proverb