Lovely Family Quotes

• I have a lovely family who supports me and it's great.

  Bryan Cranston

  Support, Lovely, Support Me

  "Actor Bryan Cranston". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 2, 2010.

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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 love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

  Charles Kuralt

  Love, Inspirational, Family

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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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• No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.

  William Butler Yeats

  Family, Gratitude, Children

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent.

  Robert Breault

  Family, Two, Unity

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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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• 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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• That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.

  Deb Caletti

  Love, Family, Friends

  Deb Caletti (2009). “The Fortunes of Indigo Skye”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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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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  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 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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• 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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• Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.

  Marsha Norman

  Family, Mean, Being Thankful

  Marsha Norman (1983). “'Night, Mother”, p.19, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.

  Winston Churchill

  Family, Girl, Famous Love

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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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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• The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Family, Heaven, Being Thankful

  Thomas Jefferson (1855). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.103

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• Friends are God's apology for relations.

  Hugh Kingsmill

  Friendship, Family, Im Sorry

  In Michael Holroyd Best of Hugh Kingsmill (1970) p. 12

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• Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining?

  Robert Breault

  Family, Pie, Perfect

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• She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love, Friendship, Family

  "Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985.

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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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• 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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• Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Love, Family, Patterns

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.19, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Love, Family, Mom

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• If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Family, Children, Home

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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