Perfect Family Quotes:

The perfect family doesn't exist, nor is there a perfect husband or a perfect wife, and let's not talk about the perfect mother-in-law! It's just us sinners." A healthy family life requires frequent use of three phrases: "May I? Thank you, and I'm sorry" and "never, never, never end the day without making peace.

- Pope Francis

source: "Pope Francis' top 10 most quotable quotes of the year" by Carol Glatz, www.catholicnews.com. February 28, 2014.

topic: Mother, Sorry, Husband, Mother In Law, Perfect 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

I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life.

- John Stamos

topic: Beautiful, Good Life, Perfect, Perfect Family, Good Upbringing

If there's a perfect family out there, we're all happy for that family. But most families aren't perfect. Most families are living with some sort of challenge or some sort of difficulty.

- Louie Giglio

source: "A conversation with pastor, author and songwriter Louie Giglio". Interview With Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

topic: Perfect, Challenges, Difficulty, Perfect Family

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

So we dream on. Thus we invent our lives. We give ourselves a sainted mother, we make our father a hero; and someone’s older brother and someone’s older sister – they become our heroes too. We invent what we love and what we fear. There is always a brave lost brother – and a little lost sister, too. We dream on and on: the best hotel, the perfect family, the resort life. And our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them.

- John Irving

source: John Irving (1986). “The Hotel New Hampshire”

topic: Mother, Dream, Brother, Lost Brother, Perfect Family

Family is not an important thing. It's everything.

- Michael J. Fox

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Family, Vocabulary Words, Happy Family, Family Holiday

It's very hard to grow up in a perfect family when you're not perfect.

- E. L. James

topic: Growing Up, Perfect, Grows, Perfect Family

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

Many children in the foster care system are often in the midst of a family challenge.

- Michele Bachmann

topic: Children, Challenges, Care, Foster Care, Perfect Family

Looking back I realize I had the perfect family background to become the political cartoonist that I became. My father was stupid, insensitive, and cruel, thereby making me distrustful of all authority. On the other hand, I had a warm, supportive and encouraging mother, which made me want to fix the world.

- Edward Sorel

source: Source: classic.esquire.com

topic: Mother, Father, Stupid, Perfect Family

I sustain myself with the love of family.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Family, Cousin, Happy Family, Love And Family

I really can't complain about anything. I'm living a childhood dream and I have a perfect family. There's really nothing that I'm disappointed with.

- Tim Hudson

topic: Dream, Perfect, Childhood, Childhood Dreams, Perfect Family

Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.

- Dan Savage

topic: Christmas, Real, Ideas, Tv Commercial, Perfect Family

No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle.

- Dee Dee Myers

topic: Struggle, Thinking, White, Ivy League, Perfect Family

From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right to choose an interesting a career, a high-status mate, the desirable handbag or vacation, the perfect family size, and a definitionally fruitless quest for 'perfection.'

- Naomi Wolf

topic: Sex, Vacation, Expression, Individual Expression, Perfect Family

You all looked so happy together in the photograph. You looked like the perfect family. Is there such a thing anymore because if there is, my happy little unit was definitely not in the queue when they were handing out the titles.

- Cecelia Ahern

topic: Perfect, Together, Titles, Perfect Family, Happy Together

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

- George Bernard Shaw

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

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

- George Santayana

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

The perfect family board game is one that can be played each time with fewer pieces.

- Robert Breault

topic: Games, Perfect, Pieces, Perfect Family, Board Games

I love you. I know the real you too. You think I don't but how easily you forget I was the one who bailed you out of trouble over and over again as kids. I didn't ask the perfect Ashton to be my girlfriend when I was fourteen years old. I asked the only Ash I'd ever known. You changed all on your own. I'm not going to lie. I was proud of the girl you had become. My world was complete. I had the perfect family, perfect girl, perfect future. I let myself forget the other girl you once were.

- Abbi Glines

topic: Girl, Lying, Real, My Girlfriend, Perfect Girl

That sounds terrific, thought Cary, just you, your comatose wife your shell-shocked son, and your daughter who hates your guts. Not to mention that your two kids may be in love with each other. Yeah, that sounds like a perfect family reunion.

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Funny, Daughter, Hate, Perfect Family, Shocked

The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a common school than can be taught in the most perfect family circle

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

source: Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland”, p.121, e-artnow

topic: Children, School, Circles, Perfect Family, Comradeship