Great Family Quotes

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

George Santayana

Inspirational, Family, Brother

George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.23, MIT Press

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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?

Lee Iacocca

Love, Family, Wise

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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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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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At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.

Mark V. Olsen

Family, The End Of The Day, Togetherness

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

Dodie Smith

Funny, Family, Heart

Dear Octopus (1938) p. 120

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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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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

George Bernard Shaw

Inspirational, Family, Happiness

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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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Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.

Brad Henry

Family, Inspiration, Comfort

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

Barbara Bush

Inspirational, Family, Mean

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A man should never neglect his family for business.

Walt Disney

Inspirational, Family, Inspiring

"How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

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

Anthony Brandt

Change, Family, Grandparent

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When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

Joyce Brothers

Life, Family, Happiness

"Three Hundred and Twenty-Five Prompts for Personal Journals" by James A. Senn, (p. 44), 1995.

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The family. We are 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. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.

Erma Bombeck

Family, Sibling, Character

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In family life, love is the oil that eases friction.

Eva Burrows

Family, Love Life, Love Is

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

Francis Bacon

Funny, Family, Important

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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

Motivational, Family, Appreciation

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Charles Darwin made arguably the greatest discovery any human has ever made. He was a man of great persistence. He wasn't probably a natural genius, he worked very hard - even though he was an invalid. He was a great family man, a very nice man. I think he was admirable in all sorts of ways.

Richard Dawkins

Nice, Men, Thinking

Source: www.macleans.ca

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No pains must be spared to wipe out all feeling of diffidence, embarrassment, or shame on the part of those receiving relief; [we] must be one great family of equals. The spiritual welfare of those on relief must receive especial care and be earnestly and prayerfully fostered. A system which gives relief for work or service will go far to reaching these ends.

Heber J. Grant

Spiritual, Pain, Giving

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It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of gathering knowledge does not lead to knowing. A child's world spreads only a little beyond his understanding while that of a great scientist thrusts outward immeasurably. An answer is invariably the parent of a great family of new questions. So we draw worlds and fit them like tracings against the world about us, and crumple them when we find they do not fit and draw new ones.

John Steinbeck

Children, Knowledge, Science

John Steinbeck (1943). “Steinbeck”

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If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our father in heaven.

Hosea Ballou

Gratitude, Children, Father

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