What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined fo

r life
to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories. ~George Eliot
At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable. ~Mark
V. Olsen and Will Sheffer, Big Love, "Easter"
If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held to
gether but separable
each segment distinct. ~Letty Cottin Pogrebin
In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy
families that they are least two-thirds incontinent. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blo
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The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become o
ur best while looking our worst. ~Marge Kennedy
The family is one of nature s masterpieces. ~George Santayana, The Life of Reason
A family is a bunch of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a
kid. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never
break. ~Marquise de Svign
The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fracti
ons. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. ~Anthony Brand
t
There s an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than. ~Mignon McLaughli
n, The Second Neurotic s Notebook, 1966
Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the p
ast, present, and future. ~Gail Lumet Buckley
If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Pr
esent" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.b
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The house of the childless is empty; and so is the heart of him that hath no wif
e. ~Hitopadesa
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

I don t have to look up my family tree, because I know that I m the sap. ~Fred Allen
What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family a
nd the gathering. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
The lack of emotional security of our American young people is
o their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people
mother as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional
d. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons
and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble
not break if he could, for nature has welded him

due, I believe, t
no mere father and
security for a chil
of variety in age
bond which he can