My Family Quotes

• 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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• As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

  Buddy Hackett

  Funny, Family, Mothers Day

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• Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

  Cary Grant

  Family, Running, Insanity

  "Fictional character: Mortimer Brewster". "Arsenic and Old Lace", www.imdb.com. 1944.

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• My family is my strength and my weakness.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Family, Strength, Weakness

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• My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed.

  Ishmael Beah

  Gun, Squad, Providers

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• The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

  Confucius

  Family, Strength, Peace

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• Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.

  Albert Einstein

  Family, Beautiful, Land

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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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• we must take care of our families wherever we find them.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Family, Home, Care

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.257, A&C Black

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• Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

  Margaret Mead

  Relationship, Family, Sister

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Ellyn Sanna "Sisters by Birth Friends by Choice: All the Things I Love About You", June 2003.

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• Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Family, Justice, Spirit

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• There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

  Anwar Sadat

  Family, Justice, Diversity

  Anwar Sadat (1978). “In Search of Identity: An Autobiography”, New York : Harper & Row

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• Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

  Tennessee Williams

  Family, Reality, Enthusiasm For Life

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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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• There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.

  Winston Churchill

  Family, Home, Doubt

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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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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• 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

  Love, Family, Smile

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• You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.

  Frederick Buechner

  Relationship, Family, Smile

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 04, 2015

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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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• If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.

  Nhat Hanh

  Life, Family, Spiritual

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Present Moment Wonderful Moment: Mindfulness Verses for Daily Living: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.80, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Family, Firsts, Expected

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• Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.

  Mitch Albom

  Family, Sticking It, Togetherness

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• The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Family, Mother, Children

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• The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale the community itself is crippled.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Family, Attitude, Children

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966".

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