It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. -Johann Schiller
Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts. -Author Unknown
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
If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion. -Ashleigh Brilliant
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. -Ogden Nash
In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry. -Margaret Laurence
When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. -Joyce Brothers
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
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
