don t care how poor a man is; if he has family, he s rich.

~Dan Wilcox and Thad Mum

ford, "Identity Crisis," M*A*S*H
Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life! ~Albert Einstein
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann
Schiller
The family is a haven in a heartless world. ~Attributed to Christopher Lasch
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box t
he way we do. With no relatives, no support, we ve put it in an impossible situati
on. ~Margaret Mead
Families are like fudge

mostly sweet with a few nuts. ~Author Unknown

The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the
next one puts the previous one into perspective. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspo
t.com
If you don t believe in ghosts, you ve never been to a family reunion. ~Ashleigh Bri
lliant
We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the atti
cs of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every
cell of our bodies. ~Shirley Abbott
Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the chil
dren with outer space, and the mother with closet space. ~Evan Esar
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasiona
l animal, and the common cold. ~Ogden Nash
The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sh
aring diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another s desserts, hiding shampoo, bo
rrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing
to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figur
e out the common thread that bound us all together. ~Erma Bombeck
When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. ~Jo
yce Brothers
In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however,
it was sorry. ~Margaret Laurence
Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes ha

ppens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantn
ess, 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 McLaug
hlin, The Neurotic s Notebook, 1960
You don t choose your family. They are God s gift to you, as you are to them. ~Desmo
nd Tutu
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
Blood s thicker than water, and when one s in trouble
Best to seek out a relative s open arms.
~Author Unknown
The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is we
ll it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind. ~Thomas J
efferson, 1813