FAMILY

I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich.  ~Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford, 

When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.  ~Joyce Brothers

The family is a haven in a heartless world.  ~Attributed to Christopher Lasch

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

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

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.  ~Johann Schiller

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

The family is a haven in a heartless world.  ~Attributed to Christopher Lasch

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

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.  ~Spanish Proverb

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.  ~Barbara Bush

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

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There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.  ~Herbert Prochnov

Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life!  ~Albert Einstein

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

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." - Mahatma Gandh

"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

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

Gail Lumet Buckley

"BEING A BROTHER IS BETTER THAN BEING A SUPER HERO."

"Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad."

Anne Geddes

" Only love can be divided endlessly, and still not diminish."

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"I wish that the message of Peace may be experienced through Yoga, which is not only a culture of the body but the evolution of the Self." - Yogacharya B.K.S. Iyengar

Follow your bliss." - Joseph Campbell

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.
-- Dodie Smith

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.
-- Anthony Brandt

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 

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
-- Alex Haley

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

At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.
-- Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer

"In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony."- Eva Burrows

When a parent looks through a daughter's eyes, the stars shine with possibility and the earth sings with hope."

"We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break."Marquise de Sevigne

"Good fathers are commonly misunderstood, but they always love you and do what's for your good."
Wes Fessler

"The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man."

Euripides

"Sometimes fun is just being together."

Wes Fessler

"If you really want to know your family, meet them in the backyard."

Wes Fessler

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."

Plato

'Ohana means family - no one gets left behind, and no one is ever forgotten.  ~Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, Lilo & Stitch

In time of test, family is best.  ~Burmese Proverb

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.  ~George Santayana,

Alexa, Jack, Ford, James, Jonah and Ella.... not pictured Jasmine ! She was at the table chilling with the adults!

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.  ~Robert Brault,

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

And thank you for a house full of people I love.  Amen.  ~Terri Guillemets