Funny Family Reunion Quotes

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

  Alex Haley

  Inspirational, Family, Meaningful

  "Traits of a Healthy Family" by Dolores Curran, (p. 199), 1985.

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

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspirational, Family, God

  Address at his enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, September 7, 1986.

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

  George Burns

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Birth Control, Family Reunion, Genealogy

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• I wish I could relate to the people I'm related to.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  People, Wish, Reuniting

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• Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.

  Wayne Huizenga

  Family, Nuts, Tree

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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

  Family, Mother, Children

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

  Lee Iacocca

  Family, Cousin, Rocks

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• 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

  Family, Home, Thinking

  George Bernard Shaw (2004). “Heartbreak House”, p.63, 1st World Publishing

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

  Gail Buckley

  Family, Past, Mirrors

  "Books of the Times" by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, www.nytimes.com. 1986.

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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, 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

  Family, Being Thankful, Understanding

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Family, Believe, Being Thankful

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• 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

  Family, Impossible Situations, Support

  "Culture and Commitment: A Study of the Generation Gap". Book by Margaret Mead, 1970.

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• To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

  Barbara Bush

  Inspirational, Family, Mean

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• Family is essential because we all yearn to feel like we belong to something greater than ourselves.

  Laura Ramirez

  Essentials, Family Reunion, Feels

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• There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Family, Blood, Water

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.38, BookBaby

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• Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

  Anthony Brandt

  Change, Family, Grandparent

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Family, Happiness, Success

  Thomas Jefferson (1900). “The Life and Writings of ...”

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• Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

  Jim Bishop

  Daughter, Dad, Being Single

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• Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.

  Bill Cosby

  Family, Parenting, Justice

  Twitter post from Nov 03, 2009

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• The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

  Richard Bach

  Life, Family, Spiritual

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.65, Delta

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• Earthmen are not proud of their ancestors and never invite them round to dinner.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Family, Food

  "Fictional character: The Book". "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/ Episode #1.1", www.imdb.com. January 1981.

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• They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines. Family life is like this - animated, but collateral.

  Rose Macaulay

  Family, Passion, Life Is Like

  Rose Macaulay (Dame.) (1928). “Daisy & Daphne”

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• The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

  Nancy Mitford

  Family, Life Lesson, Being Thankful

  The Pursuit of Love ch. 1 (1945)

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• You see, insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

  Joseph Kesselring

  Running, Insanity, I Love My Family

  Arsenic and Old Lace act 2 (1941)

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