Family Quotes

It used to take courage - - Indeed, it was the act of courage par excellence - - To leave the comforts of home and family and go out into the world seeking adventure. Today there are fewer places to discover, and the real adventure is to stay at home.

Alvaro de Solva

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

Haniel Long

A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.

Gray Davis

Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.

Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Some things you do because you want to. Some things you do because of the needs of others in your family.

Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 10 - 06 - 05

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.

Vartan Gregorian

To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.

John Irving

The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

Thomas Jefferson

The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.

Mary Catherine Bateson

Having a thirteen - Year - Old in the family is like having a general - Admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen - Agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.

Max Lerne

If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.

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