Family

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

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

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.  ~ George Bernard Shaw

All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.  ~ Leo Tolstoy

I sustain myself with the love of family.  ~ Maya Angelou

If you're a part of my family, I will love you violently.  ~ Charlie Sheen

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.  ~ P.J. O'Rourke

The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society.  ~ Jill Ruckelshaus

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.  ~ Jane Austen

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.  ~ George Burns

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood. ~  Charles Dickens

If you want to trace your family tree, all you have to do is run for public office.  ~ Patricia Vance

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.  ~ H.L. Mencken

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

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

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.  ~ Stella Benson

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.  ~ Mother Teresa

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

People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind.  ~ Sue Grafton

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.  ~ Mother Teresa

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.  ~ Ogden Nash

The family is the American fascism.  ~ Paul Goodman

Smile at each other. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other- it doesn't matter who it is- and that will help to grow up in greater love for each other.  ~ Mother Teresa

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.  ~ Johann von Goethe

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

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.  ~ Margaret Mead

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.  ~ Pope John Paul II

The family is the nucleus of civilization.  ~ William Durant

Let parents then bequeath to their children not riches but the spirit of reverence.  ~ Plato

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

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relatives.  ~ Oscar Wilde

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

Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness.  ~ Robert J. Havighurst

Where there is lasting love, there is a family.  ~ Shere Hite

Everyone had an uncle who tried to steal their nose.  ~ Peter Kay

I think film-makers invented the happy American family and put it into movies to drive everyone crazy.  ~ Jill Robinson

Family...the we of me.  ~ Carson McCullers

All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.  ~ Leo Tolstoy

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, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.  ~ Thomas Jefferson

Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.  ~ Mother Teresa

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