Love Life And Family Quotes:

The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Expression, Typical, Would Be, Importunate, Making Friends

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

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

topic: Family, Circles, Orange, Happy Family, Large Family

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.

- Margaret Laurence

source: Margaret Laurence (2014). “A Bird in the House: Stories”, p.90, University of Chicago Press

topic: Sorry, Apology, House, Love Life And Family, I Am Sorry

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

- Friedrich Schiller

topic: Family, Thank You, Fathers Day, Happy Family, Inspirational Father

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

- Robert Breault

topic: Family, Pie, Perfect, Love Life And Family, Perfect Family

They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines. Family life is like this - animated, but collateral.

- Rose Macaulay

source: Rose Macaulay (Dame.) (1928). “Daisy & Daphne”

topic: Family, Passion, Life Is Like, Love Life And Family, Lovely Family

Ohana means family - no one gets left behind and no one is ever forgotten.

- Chris Sanders

topic: Family, Mean, Forgotten, Love Life And Family, Lovely Family

The love of a family is life's greatest blessing

- Eva Burrows

topic: Blessing, Family Love, Being Blessed, Inspirational Family, Spiritual Family

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

- Anthony Brandt

topic: Change, Family, Grandparent, Happy Family, Large Family

The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.

- Robert Breault

topic: Family, Perspective, Long, Love Life And Family, Lovely Family

The family is a haven in a heartless world.

- Christopher Lasch

source: Christopher Lasch (1997). “Women and the Common Life: Love, Marriage, and Feminism”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Family, Heartless, World, Love Life And Family, Lovely Family

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

- Desmond Tutu

topic: Inspirational, Family, Cute Relationship, Happy Family, Family Holiday

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.

- Eva Burrows

topic: Family, Love Life, Love Is, Inspirational Family, Inspirational Family Love

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

- Joyce Brothers

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

topic: Life, Family, Happiness, Happy Family, Large Family

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

- Mark V. Olsen

topic: Family, The End Of The Day, Should, Happy Family, Inspirational Family

Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Family, Beautiful, Land, Inspirational Family, Spiritual Family

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

topic: Family, Character, Trying, Brothers And Sisters, Life Is Pain

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Family, Home, Skins, Inspirational Family, Inspirational Family Love

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

- Lee Iacocca

topic: Family, Cousin, Rocks, Happy Family, Inspirational Family

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

topic: Family, Understanding, Bitterness, Inspirational Family, Inspirational Family Love

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

topic: Family, Being Thankful, Support, Happy Family, Nuclear Families

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.

- Evan Esar

topic: Family, Mother, Children, Inspirational Family, Parking

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

- Barbara Bush

topic: Inspirational, Family, Mean, Family Time, Just Being There

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Family, Happiness, Happy Family, Inspirational Family

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.

- Jim Butcher

source: Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.304, Penguin

topic: Family, People, Hell, Happy Family, Karrin Murphy

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Family, Happiness, Success, Inspirational Family, Inspirational Family Love

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

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

topic: Family, Heaven, Being Thankful, Family First, Love Life And Family

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

- Dodie Smith

source: Dear Octopus (1938) p. 120

topic: Funny, Family, Heart, Happy Family, Inspirational Family

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

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

topic: Family, Mean, Nerves, Love Life And Family, Lovely Family

There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.

- Herbert V. Prochnow

topic: Laziness, Helping, Cures, Large Family, Love Life And Family

Friends are God's apology for relations.

- Hugh Kingsmill

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

topic: Friendship, Family, Sorry, Love Life And Family, I Am Sorry

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

- Nancy Mitford

source: The Pursuit of Love ch. 1 (1945)

topic: Family, Life Lesson, Lessons, Large Family, Love Life And Family

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

- George Santayana

topic: Inspirational, Family, Brother, Happy Family, Inspirational Family

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Family, Home, Thinking, Love Life And Family, Funny Family

If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion.

- Ashleigh Brilliant

topic: Family, Believe, Being Thankful, Love Life And Family, Funny Family