About Family Quotes - Page 4

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

Eva Burrows

Love, Family, Meaningful

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A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

Agatha Christie

Love, Birthday, Family

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The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

George Carlin

Inspirational, Family, Children

George Carlin (2007). “The Best of Brain Droppings”, p.55, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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

Herbert V. Prochnow

Family, Being Thankful, Laziness

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Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

Francis Bacon

Funny, Family, Important

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Ohana means family - no one gets left behind and no one is ever forgotten.

Chris Sanders

Family, Mean, Forgotten

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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

Tennessee Williams

Family, Reality, Enthusiasm For Life

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You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.

Elizabeth Berg

Inspirational, Family, Return

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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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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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The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.

Mario Puzo

Family, Loyalty, Lying

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To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

Marilyn French

Family, Mom, Mother

Marilyn French (2013). “Her Mother's Daughter: A Novel”, p.1070, Open Road Media

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When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.

Jim Butcher

Inspirational, Family, Parenting

Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.304, Penguin

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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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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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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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The family is a haven in a heartless world.

Christopher Lasch

Family, Heartless, World

Christopher Lasch (1997). “Women and the Common Life: Love, Marriage, and Feminism”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

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Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

David Ogden Stiers

Inspirational, Family, Mean

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Friedrich Schiller

Family, Thank You, Fathers Day

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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

Oscar Wilde

Family, Thanksgiving, Food

1893 Lady Caroline. A Woman of No Importance, act 2.

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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Family, Hate, Mean

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.

C. S. Lewis

Family, Friends, Careers

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

Inspirational, Life, Change

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This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

Arundhati Roy

Family, Hurt, Doctors

Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.70, Penguin Books India

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In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.

Margaret Laurence

Funny, Family, Sarcastic

Margaret Laurence (2014). “A Bird in the House: Stories”, p.90, University of Chicago Press

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